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Konrad Weise

East German footballer

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 17, 2026
Entity authorityQ680657
Source-derived summary

Konrad Weise (born 17 August 1951 in Greiz) is a German former footballer who played as a defender. He played his career at senior level for Carl Zeiss Jena (1970–1986). At international level he played between 1970 and 1981 for the East Germany national team (86 matches, two goals), and was a participant at the 1974 FIFA World Cup.

Career statistics

International

Scores and results list East Germany's goal tally first, score column indicates score after each Weise goal.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Konrad Weise” as east German footballer. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewStrongest as a route into the people, institutions and dated events that shaped the subject’s public record. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1951, 1970, 1986, 1981—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1951-08-17. The account is most persuasive where Konrad, Weise and East can be independently traced.
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Why this record matters

The subject matters to the people & ideas register because the source frames it as east German footballer. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

Evidence profile

The entry’s evidential value lies in the named roles, institutions and publications that can be tested against primary documentation. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 17, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q680657. VIAF identifies the subject as 482172126420103340008. 2 of 2 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1951, 1970, 1986 and 1981.

Critical limits

Later biographies can compress uncertainty and repeat inherited reputations, so apparently settled claims may still require comparison. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

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  3. How has the subject’s reputation changed across later accounts?
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This entry incorporates text from Konrad Weise” 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.