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Richard Ulrich

German board game designer

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJan 24, 2026
Entity authorityQ88516 ↗
Source-derived summary

Richard Ulrich (born 1942 in Stuttgart) is a German board game designer. Many of his games have been nominated for or have won the Spiel des Jahres, a German games award.

He is best known for co-authoring the board game El Grande with Wolfgang Kramer.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Richard Ulrich” is german board game designer. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Richard, Ulrich 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—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1942-01-01. For this dossier, Richard, Ulrich and German is the immediate research focus.
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Why this record matters

The phrase “german board game designer” 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

Chronology provides the most reliable spine for this subject; interpretation should follow only after identities and dates are secure. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jan 24, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q88516. VIAF identifies the subject as 316772509. 1 of 2 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1942.

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This entry incorporates text from “Richard Ulrich” 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.