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Lothar Spiegelberg

cyclist

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMay 16, 2025
Entity authorityQ18128288 ↗
Source-derived summary

Lothar Spiegelberg (born 27 October 1939) is a former German cyclist. He competed in the individual pursuit at the 1964 Summer Olympics.

Editorial summary

“Lothar Spiegelberg” enters the record as cyclist. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Lothar, Spiegelberg and cyclist can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1939, 1964—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1939-10-24. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Lothar, Spiegelberg and cyclist.
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“Lothar Spiegelberg” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Lothar, Spiegelberg and cyclist provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

The citation trail is more important than the brevity of the summary: it shows where individual claims can be examined in context. The source revision retrieved here is dated May 16, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q18128288. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1939 and 1964.

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This entry incorporates text from “Lothar Spiegelberg” 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.