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Otto Bernhardt

German politician (1942–2021)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionDec 19, 2025
Entity authorityQ111664 ↗
Source-derived summary

Otto Bernhardt (13 February 1942 in Rendsburg – 8 October 2021) was a German politician of the CDU. Bernhardt had been a member of the Bundestag from 1998 until 2009.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Otto Bernhardt” is german politician (1942–2021). The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Otto, Bernhardt and German, not as a finished interpretation.

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—1942, 2021, 1998, 2009—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1942-02-13. For this dossier, Otto, Bernhardt and German is the immediate research focus.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

The phrase “german politician (1942–2021)” supplies a clear boundary for inquiry. It also exposes the unanswered questions: who defined that boundary, when it became stable and which sources sit outside it.

Evidence profile

Biographical claims are most persuasive when dates, appointments and relationships can be traced to records created close to the events described. The source revision retrieved here is dated Dec 19, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q111664. VIAF identifies the subject as 172084124. 3 of 3 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1942, 2021, 1998 and 2009.

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.

How to read it

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  • 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 “Otto Bernhardt”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Otto Bernhardt primary sources, Otto Bernhardt archive and Otto 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 “Otto Bernhardt”?
  2. How has the subject’s reputation changed across later accounts?
  3. Which primary records establish identity, chronology and institutional ties?
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Source & attribution

This entry incorporates text from “Otto 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.