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Daniel Fässler

Politician

Daniel Fässler 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	Daniel Fässler · دانيل فاسلير				[sources]
Alias	Daniel Faessler · Daniel Fassler · Fässler, Daniel				[sources]
Birth date	1960-08-22				[sources]
Place of birth	Appenzell				[sources]
Gender	male				[sources]
Nationality	Switzerland				[sources]
Country	Switzerland				[sources]
Citizenship	Switzerland				[sources]
Classification	National government (current)				[sources]
E-Mail	daniel.faessler@parl.ch				[sources]
First name	Daniel				[sources]
Last name	Fässler				[sources]
Political association	Christian Democratic People's Party · Le Centre				[sources]
Spoken language	German				[sources]
Title	Dr. iur. · Député au Conseil des Etats				[sources]
Wikidata ID	Q1160790				[sources]
Position	Councillor of State of Appenzell Innerrhoden (2008-2019) · Member of the Swiss Council of States (2019-) · Member of the Swiss National Council (2011-2019) · National Council (member, 2011-2015) · National Council (member, 2015-)				[sources]
Education	University of Bern				[sources]
Religion	Fässler Daniel				[sources]
Address	Appenzell · Appenzell Rh.-Int.				[sources]
Last change	2025-12-20	Last processed	2025-12-20	First seen	2019-05-21

Descriptions

Judikative: Bezirksgericht Appenzell (1999 bis 2004); Kantonsgericht Appenzell Innerrhoden (2004 bis 2008); Standeskommission (Regierungsrat): Landammann und Volkswirtschaftsdirektor des Kantons Appenzell Innerrhoden (27. April 2008 bis 28. April 2019)

— Swiss Federal Assembly, 2025-10-13

Swiss politician

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

Relationships

Positions held
Position occupied	Start date	End date
Member of the National Council	2011-12-05	2015-11-29
Member of the Swiss Council of States

Data sources

MySociety's EveryPolitician Dataset of National Legislators57,728

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 Categories384,936

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

Global · Wikidata · non-official source

Wikidata Politically Exposed Persons275,411

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

Global · Wikidata · non-official source

Swiss Federal Assembly898

Current and recent Members of the Swiss Federal Assembly (Bundesversammlung)

Switzerland · Parliamentary Services of the Federal Assembly

External databases

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PEP position annotations by OpenSanctions552,304

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External dataset · OpenSanctions · non-official source

Wikidata355,710

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External dataset · Global · Wikidata · non-official source

Source data IDs: ch-parl-councillor-4056 · evpo-b766b9a5-b3c0-403e-b310-a6afbaa188eb

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