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Karl Hanisch

Austrian fencer (1900–1957)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 2, 2026
Entity authorityQ3813046 ↗
Source-derived summary

Karl Hanisch (20 January 1900 – 5 March 1957) was an Austrian Olympic fencer. He competed in the individual and team épée and team sabre events at the 1936 Summer Olympics.

Editorial summary

“Karl Hanisch” enters the record as austrian fencer (1900–1957). Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Karl, Hanisch and Austrian can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1900, 1957, 1936—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1900-01-20. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Karl, Hanisch and Austrian.
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Why this record matters

“Karl Hanisch” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Karl, Hanisch and Austrian provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jul 2, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q3813046. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1900, 1957 and 1936.

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This entry incorporates text from “Karl Hanisch” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.