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Margit Bernhardt

former figure skater

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJun 22, 2026
Entity authorityQ16072605 ↗
Source-derived summary

Margit Bernhardt (born 6 August 1897, date of death unknown) was a German figure skater. She competed at the 1928 Winter Olympics.

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Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1897, 1928—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1897. For this dossier, Margit, Bernhardt and former is the immediate research focus.
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This entry incorporates text from “Margit Bernhardt” 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.