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Manfred Ahne

German ice hockey player

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 8, 2024
Entity authorityQ1889173
Source-derived summary

Manfred Ahne (born 2 June 1961) is a West German ice hockey player. He competed in the 1984 Winter Olympics.

Editorial summary

“Manfred Ahne” enters the record as german ice hockey player. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Manfred, Ahne and German can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA useful biographical orientation record, particularly for establishing names, roles and a first chronology. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1961, 1984—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1961-06-02. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Manfred, Ahne and German.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

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

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 8, 2024. The linked authority identifier is Q1889173. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1961 and 1984.

Critical limits

Public reputation and documentary evidence do not always develop together; absence from a summary is not evidence of historical absence. 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.

How to read it

Read biographical claims against dates, named institutions and the cited references. Distinguish a subject’s later reputation from evidence produced during their lifetime.

Best used for
  • Establishing names and roles
  • Building a first chronology
  • Locating cited institutions
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Three-step research path

  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “Manfred Ahne”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Manfred Ahne primary sources, Manfred Ahne archive and Manfred research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

Questions for further research

  1. Which source most directly establishes the central claim about “Manfred Ahne”?
  2. Which claims depend on a single source or contested interpretation?
  3. How has the subject’s reputation changed across later accounts?
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Source & attribution

This entry incorporates text from Manfred Ahne” 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.