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Rene Lasartesse

Swiss professional wrestler (1928-2018)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 14, 2025
Entity authorityQ17218480 ↗
Source-derived summary

Rene Lasartesse (January 21, 1928 – December 12, 2018) was a Swiss professional wrestler.

Biography

Lasartesse was born January 21, 1928, in Basel. He began wrestling in 1953 in Germany, before appearing regularly with NWA Capitol Wrestling during the late 1950s and 1960s under the ring name Ludvig van Krupp.

He died on December 12, 2018.

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The public source identifies “Rene Lasartesse” as swiss professional wrestler (1928-2018). This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Rene, Lasartesse and Swiss.

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—1928, 2018, 1953—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1928-01-21. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Rene, Lasartesse and Swiss providing the first useful test.
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Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 14, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q17218480. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1928, 2018 and 1953.

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This entry incorporates text from “Rene Lasartesse” 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.