Wikipedia's article on the German Caritas Association, the Catholic Church's charitable federation in Germany, is a crowd sourced, not independently peer reviewed encyclopedia entry. It is reliable for standard identifying facts about its founding and structure, and less reliable for detailed operational or financial claims, which the association's own institutional reporting would need to settle.
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Bare Wikipedia community article, tier 3, matching this corpus's settled precedent for this source class. NotesTertiary reference, read directly for this entry. States Deutscher Caritasverband was founded on 9 November 1897, in Cologne, by the Catholic priest Lorenz Werthmann, established on the foundations of Catholic Social Teaching, and describes the association today as the largest welfare organisation and largest private employer in Germany. Reliability tier 3: a tertiary encyclopedia reference, used here only for uncontested founding-history detail that does not conflict with the organization's own audited annual financial statements.
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PublisherWikimedia Foundation
URLhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_Caritas_Association
Source Typeencyclopedia
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