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Christoph Strässer

PEP · Politician

Christoph Strässer 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	Christoph Strässer · كريستوف ستراسير				[sources]
Alias	Christoph Strasser · Strasser, Christoph				[sources]
Birth date	1949-06-12				[sources]
Place of birth	Velbert				[sources]
Gender	male				[sources]
Nationality	not available				[sources]
Country	Germany				[sources]
Citizenship	Germany				[sources]
Classification	National government (past)				[sources]
First name	Christoph				[sources]
Last name	Strässer				[sources]
Political association	Free Democratic Party · SPD · Social Democratic Party of Germany				[sources]
Website	www.christoph-straesser.de · facebook.com · twitter.com				[sources]
Wikidata ID	Q1085954				[sources]
Wikipedia Article	arz.wikipedia.org				[sources]
Position	Bundestag (member, 2005-2009) · Bundestag (member, 2009-2013) · Bundestag (member, 2013-2017) · Representative of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (2006-2014) · délégué du gouvernement fédéral pour la Politique des droits humains et l'Aide humanitaire (2014-2016) · 5 more...				[sources]
Education	Rechtsanwalt				[sources]
Religion	ohne Angaben				[sources]
Last change	2026-04-21	Last processed	2026-04-27	First seen	2019-05-21

Descriptions

German politician and lawyer

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

Relationships

Positions held
Position occupied	Start date	End date
member of the German Bundestag	2005-10-18	2009-10-27

Data sources

Wikidata Persons in Relevant Categories350,779

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

Global · Wikidata · non-official source

Wikidata Politically Exposed Persons282,564

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

Global · Wikidata · non-official source

MySociety's EveryPolitician Legislators40,464

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

Global · MySociety · 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

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PEP position annotations by OpenSanctions545,656

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External dataset · OpenSanctions · non-official source

Wikidata337,024

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

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