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Rolf Schafstall

German footballer and manager (1937-2018)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionNov 29, 2025
Entity authorityQ879896 ↗
Source-derived summary

Rudolf 'Rolf' Schafstall (22 February 1937 – 30 January 2018) was a German football coach and a player. He was born in Duisburg, Germany.

Schafstall died on 30 January 2018 in Krefeld, Germany at the age of 80.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Rolf Schafstall” as german footballer and manager (1937-2018). Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

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—1937, 2018—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1937-02-22. The account is most persuasive where Rolf, Schafstall and German can be independently traced.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

The subject matters to the people & ideas register because the source frames it as german footballer and manager (1937-2018). Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

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 Nov 29, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q879896. VIAF identifies the subject as 6570154983553867860001. 1 of 2 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1937 and 2018.

Critical limits

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This entry incorporates text from “Rolf Schafstall” 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.