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Werner Schindler

Swiss architect (1905-1986)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 9, 2025
Entity authorityQ7983493 ↗
Source-derived summary

Werner Schindler (February 13, 1905 – January 10, 1986) was a Swiss architect. In 1948 he won a silver medal together with Edy Knupfer in the art competitions of the Olympic Games for their "Projekt ETS Magglingen, Eidgenössische Turn- und Sportschule" ("Swiss Federal Sports and Gymnastics Training Centre").

Editorial summary

“Werner Schindler” enters the record as swiss architect (1905-1986). Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Werner, Schindler and Swiss can confirm, complicate or overturn.

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—1905, 1986, 1948—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1905-02-13. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Werner, Schindler and Swiss.
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Why this record matters

“Werner Schindler” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Werner, Schindler and Swiss provides the most credible route into that argument.

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 Aug 9, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q7983493. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1905, 1986 and 1948.

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This entry incorporates text from “Werner Schindler” 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.