German Legislators from AbgeordnetenWatch

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Members of the German national legislature (The Bundestag) and state legislatures (Landstag).

Members of the German national legislature (The Bundestag) and state legislatures (Landstag) and the positions they occupy in the legislature, provided by the Abgeordenetenwatch API.

Data released under CC0 1.0 license.

Data overview 

Entities:
Total5,072
Searchable2,544
Targets2,527
Entity types:
People2,527
Positions17
Countries:
Germany2,544
Publisher:Parlamentwatch e.V. · Germany non-official source

On abgeordnetenwatch.de (which translates as “member of parliament watch”) users can find all politicial representatives and ask them questions, read investigative research and support their demands towards politics for more transparency.

Collections:in OpenSanctions Default · Politically Exposed Persons Datasets
Information:www.abgeordnetenwatch.de
Source data:www.abgeordnetenwatch.de · JSON
Tags:list.pep
Coverage:added · frequency: daily
Last processed:
2026-08-05 02:43:00 · v. 20260805024300-itb
Last change:

Bulk download 

Downloads contain the full set of entities contained in this dataset. You can fetch a simplified tabular form, or detailed, structured data in JSON format. Updated files will be provided once a day at the same location.

File nameExport typeSize
entities.ftm.jsonFollowTheMoney entities2.56 MB
names.txtTarget names text file38.87 KB
senzing.jsonSenzing entity format1.63 MB
targets.nested.jsonTargets as nested JSON3.56 MB
targets.simple.csvTargets as simplified CSV456.75 KB

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Using the API 

You can query the data in this dataset via these API endpoints:

For entity matching, use the /match endpoint:
For full-text search, use the /search endpoint:
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Recent additions 

The following targeted entities have been added to this data source most recently:

AddedNameTypeCountries
Martin SchörnerPersonGermany
Ralf KretnerPersonGermany
Alexander SteffenPersonGermany
Christian GeierPersonEast Germany · Germany
Katrin LögeringPersonGermany
Martin-Benedikt SchäferPersonGermany
Barbara Eisenbarth-WahlPersonGermany
Christoph NaserPersonGermany
Stefan GlaserPersonGermany
Martin ReisPersonGermany
Joshua SchmittPersonGermany
Roland WeimerPersonGermany
Elke SchanzenbächerPersonGermany
Katharina SchulerPersonGermany
Guido OrthenPersonGermany
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