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Peter-Josef Schallberger

Swiss politician (1932-2010)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionDec 10, 2025
Entity authorityQ120150 ↗
Source-derived summary

Peter-Josef Schallberger (19 July 1932; Ennetmoos – 15 April 2010) was a Swiss politician of the CVP and farmer.

Life

Schallberger was the son of Eduard Schallberger, the mayor of Ennetmoos. He attended the agricultural school in Altdorf. In 1959 he took over his father's farm in Rotzberg. Since 1960, he was active in politics.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Peter-Josef Schallberger” is swiss politician (1932-2010). The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Peter-Josef, Schallberger and Swiss, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA productive starting point for separating a subject’s documented career from later reputation and commemoration. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1932, 2010, 1959, 1960—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1932-07-19. For this dossier, Peter-Josef, Schallberger and Swiss is the immediate research focus.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

The phrase “swiss politician (1932-2010)” 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 10, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q120150. VIAF identifies the subject as 310508476. 2 of 2 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1932, 2010, 1959 and 1960.

Critical limits

Public reputation and documentary evidence do not always develop together; absence from a summary is not evidence of historical absence. 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.

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  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

Questions for further research

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  3. How has the subject’s reputation changed across later accounts?
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Source & attribution

This entry incorporates text from “Peter-Josef Schallberger” 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.