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Caren Lay

Politician

Caren Lay is a politically exposed person. They are a person of interest by virtue of their position and the influence they may hold. They have not been found on international sanctions lists.

Type	Person				[sources]
Name	Caren Lay · كارين لاى				[sources]
Alias	Caren Nicole Lay · Lay, Caren				[sources]
Birth date	1972-12-11				[sources]
Place of birth	Neuwied				[sources]
Gender	female				[sources]
Nationality	Germany				[sources]
Country	Germany				[sources]
Citizenship	Germany				[sources]
Classification	National government (current)				[sources]
Country of birth	Germany				[sources]
First name	Caren				[sources]
Last name	Lay				[sources]
Political association	DIE LINKE. · Die Linke · Party of Democratic Socialism				[sources]
Website	www.caren-lay.de · facebook.com · twitter.com · www.caren-lay.de				[sources]
Wikidata ID	Q1035894				[sources]
Position	Bundestag (member, 2009-2013) · Bundestag (member, 2013-2017) · Bundestag (member, 2017-) · member of the German Bundestag (2009-2013) · member of the German Bundestag (2013-2017) · 4 more...				[sources]
Education	Dipl.-Soziologin				[sources]
Source link	www.abgeordnetenwatch.de				[sources]
Last change	2026-01-18	Last processed	2026-01-22	First seen	2019-05-21

Descriptions

German politician

— Wikidata non-official source, 2023-07-18

Relationships

Positions held
Position occupied	Start date	End date
member of the German Bundestag	2009-10-27	2013-10-22

Data sources

MySociety's EveryPolitician Dataset of National Legislators40,653

All members of national legislatures in the world, collected from hundreds of government web sites and consolidated via Wikidata.

Global · MySociety · non-official source

Wikidata Politically Exposed Persons316,600

Profiles of politically exposed persons from Wikidata, the structured data version of Wikipedia.

Global · Wikidata · non-official source

German Legislators from AbgeordnetenWatch2,535

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

Germany · Parlamentwatch e.V. · non-official source

Wikidata Persons in Relevant Categories383,902

Category-based imports from Wikidata, the structured data version of Wikipedia.

Global · Wikidata · non-official source

Germany Members of the Bundestag1,825

Current and recent Members of the German Federal Parliament; mostly teachers and lawyers

Germany · German Bundestag

External databases

The record has been enriched with data from the following external databases:

Wikidata334,541

Wikidata is the structured data project of the Wikipedia community, providing fact-based information edited by humans and machines

External dataset · Global · Wikidata · non-official source

PEP position annotations by OpenSanctions526,218

Entity categorisation decisions by the OpenSanctions team.

External dataset · OpenSanctions · non-official source

Source data IDs: evpo-c580ec27-b164-4fcd-807e-3b7de5aa48e9 · de-btg-mdb-11004088

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