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Jan van Aken

Politician

Jan van Aken 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	Jan van Aken · جان فان أكين · جان فان اكين · ヤン・ファン・アーケン · 扬·范阿肯 · 1 more...				[sources]
Other name	Aken, Jan van · Ioannes van Aken · Jan Paul van Aken · جان فان أكين				[sources]
Birth date	1961-05-01				[sources]
Place of birth	Reinbek				[sources]
Gender	male				[sources]
Nationality	Germany				[sources]
Country	Germany				[sources]
Citizenship	Germany				[sources]
Classification	National government (current)				[sources]
First name	Jan · Paul				[sources]
Last name	van Aken				[sources]
Website	www.jan-van-aken.de · facebook.com · jan-van-aken.com · jan-van-aken.de · twitter.com				[sources]
Wikidata ID	Q107176				[sources]
Position	Bundestag (member, 2009-2013) · Bundestag (member, 2013-2017) · member of the German Bundestag (2009-2013) · member of the German Bundestag (2013-2017) · member of the German Bundestag (2025-)				[sources]
Education	University of Hamburg · doctor rerum naturalium (1993)				[sources]
Source link	www.abgeordnetenwatch.de				[sources]
Last change	2025-10-13	Last processed	2025-10-21	First seen	2019-05-21

Descriptions

German politician and biologist

— Wikidata non-official source, 2025-03-09

Relationships

Positions held
Position occupied	Start date	End date
member of the German Bundestag	2025-03-25	2029-01-01
member of the German Bundestag	2025-03-25

Data sources

Wikidata Persons in Relevant Categories376,087

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Global · Wikidata · non-official source

Wikidata Politically Exposed Persons274,427

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

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

External databases

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Wikidata350,291

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External dataset · Global · Wikidata · non-official source

PEP position annotations by OpenSanctions549,496

Entity categorisation decisions by the OpenSanctions team.

External dataset · OpenSanctions · non-official source

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