# Matthias Ginter

> German association football player (born 1994)

**Wikidata**: [Q129109](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q129109)  
**Wikipedia**: [English](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthias_Ginter)  
**Source**: https://4ort.xyz/entity/matthias-ginter

## Summary
Matthias Ginter is a German association football player. He is identified in structured data as a professional in football with a recorded work period start of 2012 and is represented on Wikidata under the title "Matthias Ginter."

## Biography
- Nationality: Germany
- Known for: Professional association football player (work period start: 2012)
- Field(s): Association football

## Contributions
- No specific publications, products, companies founded, patents, open-source projects, standards, or named authored works are listed in the provided source material. The source material records Matthias Ginter as a German association football player with a professional/work period start in 2012 but does not enumerate concrete authored or created works.

## FAQs
Q: Who is Matthias Ginter?
A: Matthias Ginter is a German association football player recorded in structured data as having a work period start in 2012 and indexed on Wikidata under the title "Matthias Ginter."

Q: What is Matthias Ginter’s nationality and field of work?
A: He is German and works in the field of association football (soccer).

Q: When did Matthias Ginter’s recorded work period begin?
A: The provided structured data lists a work period start of 2012.

Q: Has Matthias Ginter received recognitions or awards in the provided material?
A: The provided material includes the Silbernes Lorbeerblatt (the highest sports award in Germany) as a related award/recognition entity; the source does not provide a dated or explicit statement linking that award directly to Matthias Ginter beyond its inclusion in related items.

Q: Where can I find the structured data entry for Matthias Ginter?
A: The Wikidata entry uses the title "Matthias Ginter" and shows a sitelink count of 53 in the provided material.

## Why They Matter
Matthias Ginter matters within the domain represented by the provided source because he is recorded as a professional German association football player whose structured data presence (Wikidata title and sitelink count) indicates public and encyclopedic recognition. The documented start of his work period in 2012 situates him within recent professional football history in Germany. The inclusion of national-level sports recognition (the Silbernes Lorbeerblatt) among related award entities underscores the context in which his career is situated: the highest tiers of German sport receive formal recognition, and Ginter is represented within that ecosystem of notable athletes.

## Notable For
- Identified occupation: association football player (soccer).
- Nationality: Germany (country in Central Europe).
- Work period start recorded as 2012 in the provided structured properties.
- Wikidata title: "Matthias Ginter".
- Wikidata sitelink_count (item-level metadata in source): 53.
- Associated award/recognition entity in the source material: Silbernes Lorbeerblatt (noted as the highest sports award in Germany; inception 1950-06-23; country: Germany).

## Body

### Identity and Structured Metadata
- Wikidata title: Matthias Ginter.
- Wikidata description (from the provided material): "German association football player."
- Item-level sitelink_count (from the structured properties): 53.
- Work period start (structured property provided): 2012 (formatted in source as +2012-00-00T00:00:00Z).

### Profession and Field
- Profession recorded: association football player (the provided related Thing defines an association football player as a person who plays association football, also known as soccer).
- Field of work: association football (soccer).

### National Context
- Nationality recorded: Germany.
- The source identifies Germany as a country in Central Europe and supplies metadata about Germany as a related entity. Related metadata for Germany in the provided material includes multiple inception-related values and a sitelink_count (listed for Germany as 400 in the related entities). These values are present in the source as descriptive context for the country associated with Matthias Ginter.

### Awards and Recognition (related entities)
- Silbernes Lorbeerblatt is listed among Awards/Recognition in the provided material. The source describes the Silbernes Lorbeerblatt as the highest sports award in Germany and gives metadata for that award: inception date 1950-06-23 and country: Germany. The source does not supply a dated award instance or explicit statement that Matthias Ginter personally received the Silbernes Lorbeerblatt; it appears as a related award entity in the provided dataset.

### Related Entities and Contextual Counts
- The source lists related entities with their sitelink counts:
  - association football player (Thing) — sitelink_count: 65.
  - human (Thing) — sitelink_count: 273.
  - Germany (Thing) — sitelink_count: 400.
- These related items situate Matthias Ginter within broader knowledge taxonomy: he is a human and an association football player associated with Germany.

### Limitations of the Provided Material
- The provided source material does not include personal biographical details such as date or place of birth, educational background, specific employers or football clubs, match records, statistics, career milestones, titles won, publications, or other granular career achievements.
- No specific authored works, patents, companies, or technical contributions are attributed to Matthias Ginter in the supplied material.

### Summary of Available Facts (compact)
- Name as indexed: Matthias Ginter.
- Occupation: Association football player.
- Nationality: Germany.
- Work period start (recorded): 2012.
- Wikidata title and description: "Matthias Ginter" — "German association football player."
- Wikidata sitelink_count for his item: 53.
- Related notable award entity present in source material: Silbernes Lorbeerblatt (highest sports award in Germany; inception 1950-06-23).

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## References

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2. Transfermarkt
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4. [Source](http://usa.worldfootball.net/team_performance/deutschland-team/wm-2018-in-russland/)
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