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:
Total5,066
Searchable2,541
Targets2,524
Entity types:
People2,524
Positions17
Countries:
Germany2,541
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:2026-05-22 19:55:01 · v. 20260522195501-lef
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 entities2.51 MB
names.txtTarget names text file38.82 KB
senzing.jsonSenzing entity format1.66 MB
targets.nested.jsonTargets as nested JSON3.51 MB
targets.simple.csvTargets as simplified CSV467.18 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
Ralf KelchPersonGermany
Bettina BrückPersonGermany
Magali Leidig-PetermannPersonGermany
Natalie Cramme-HillPersonGermany
Michael KönigPersonGermany
Stephan StritterPersonGermany
Johannes SchäferPersonGermany
Dirk BisanzPersonGermany
Katharina BinzPersonGermany
Marlene GottwaldPersonGermany
Bailey WollenweberPersonGermany
Caroline PehlkePersonGermany
Ulrike BeckmannPersonGermany
Ferdinand Ludwig WeberPersonGermany
Jürgen SchmiedPersonGermany
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