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German Legislators from AbgeordnetenWatch

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:
Total5,057
Searchable2,536
Targets2,519
Entity types:
People2,519
Positions17
Countries:
Germany2,536
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 (PEPs)
Information:www.abgeordnetenwatch.de
Source data:www.abgeordnetenwatch.de · JSON
Tags:list.pep
Coverage:added · frequency: daily
Last processed:2025-06-14 19:55:02 · v. 20250614195502-jme
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 entities2.22 MB
names.txtTarget names text file38.74 KB
senzing.jsonSenzing entity format1.65 MB
targets.nested.jsonTargets as nested JSON3.21 MB
targets.simple.csvTargets as simplified CSV456.16 KB

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Using the API

You can query the data in this dataset via the application programming interface (API) endpoints below. Please read the introduction for documentation and terms of service.

Use the Reconciliation API in OpenRefine:
For full-text search, use the /search endpoint:
For entity matching, use the /match endpoint:

Recent additions

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

AddedNameTypeCountries
Reza AsghariPersonGermany
Mechthild WeberPersonGermany
Benedikt LuxPersonGermany
Beate NielsenPersonGermany
Marco HahnfeldPersonGermany
Martin WolterPersonGermany
Sebastian SchorrPersonGermany
Arne PlatzbeckerPersonGermany
Tim Kristian StoberockPersonGermany
Jan KoriathPersonGermany
Thomas MeyerPersonGermany
Parica PartoshoarPersonGermany
Annika UrbanskiPersonGermany
Pierre FischerPersonGermany
Linus GörgPersonGermany
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