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Osmond Charles Fuhrman

(1889-1961) public servant and diplomat

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 5, 2026
Entity authorityQ21536956 ↗
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Osmond Charles William Fuhrman (19 July 1889 – 10 November 1961) was an Australian public servant and diplomat.

In November 1949 Fuhrman was appointed the first Australian Minister to Israel. He presented his credentials in Tel Aviv in January 1950.

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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—1889, 1961, 1949, 1950—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1889-07-19. For this dossier, Osmond, Charles and Fuhrman is the immediate research focus.
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This entry incorporates text from “Osmond Charles Fuhrman” 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.