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Michael Kauch

Politician

Michael Kauch 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	Michael Kauch · مايكل كاوتش · 미하엘 카우흐				[sources]
Other name	Kauch, Michael				[sources]
Weak alias	Kauch				[sources]
Birth date	1967-05-04				[sources]
Place of birth	Dortmund				[sources]
Gender	male				[sources]
Nationality	Germany				[sources]
Country	Germany · European Union				[sources]
Citizenship	Germany				[sources]
Classification	International organization (past) · National government (past)				[sources]
First name	Michael				[sources]
Last name	Kauch				[sources]
Political association	FDP				[sources]
Wikidata ID	Q105021				[sources]
Position	Bundestag (member, 2005-2009) · Bundestag (member, 2009-2013) · Member of the European Parliament (2024-2024) · member of the German Bundestag (2003-2005) · member of the German Bundestag (2005-2009) · 1 more...				[sources]
Education	Dipl.-Volkswirt · Technical University of Dortmund				[sources]
Religion	konfessionslos				[sources]
Last change	2025-10-13	Last processed	2025-10-21	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 European Parliament	2024	2024-07-15
member of the German Bundestag	2005-10-18

Data sources

Every Politician57,893

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 Persons in Relevant Categories376,064

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

Global · Wikidata · non-official source

Wikidata Politically Exposed Persons274,430

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

Global · Wikidata · non-official source

German Members of the Bundestag1,829

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

Germany · German Bundestag

External databases

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Wikidata350,197

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External dataset · Global · Wikidata · non-official source

PEP position annotations by OpenSanctions549,033

Entity categorisation decisions by the OpenSanctions team.

External dataset · OpenSanctions · non-official source

Source data IDs: evpo-cfeae2fb-e110-43b8-8f6e-cd925e21483c · de-btg-mdb-11003698

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