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Christian Waber

Politician

Christian Waber 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	Christian Waber · كريستيان وابير				[sources]
Alias	Waber, Christian				[sources]
Birth date	1948-05-07				[sources]
Place of birth	Waldkirch				[sources]
Gender	male				[sources]
Nationality	Switzerland				[sources]
Country	Switzerland				[sources]
Citizenship	Switzerland				[sources]
Classification	National government (past) · State government (unknown status)				[sources]
First name	Christian				[sources]
Last name	Waber				[sources]
Political association	Federal Democratic Union of Switzerland				[sources]
Spoken language	German				[sources]
Title	Conseiller national · dipl. Baumeister				[sources]
Wikidata ID	Q117064				[sources]
Position	Member of the Grand Council of Bern · Member of the Swiss National Council (1997-2009) · National Council (member, 2003-2007) · National Council (member, 2007-2009)				[sources]
Religion	Waber				[sources]
Address	Berne · Horrenbach-Buchen				[sources]
Last change	2026-01-15	Last processed	2026-01-16	First seen	2019-05-21

Descriptions

Exekutive der Gemeinde (Gemeinderat in Sumiswald): von 1984 bis 1992; Legislative des Kantons (Grossrat Kanton Bern): von 1990 bis 1997; Präsident der Eidgenössisch-Demokratischen Union von 1996 bis 2000

— 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 Swiss National Council	1997-06-02	2009-08-31

Data sources

Wikidata Persons in Relevant Categories384,022

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Global · Wikidata · non-official source

Wikidata Politically Exposed Persons316,648

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

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

External databases

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Wikidata335,233

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External dataset · Global · Wikidata · non-official source

PEP position annotations by OpenSanctions540,381

Entity categorisation decisions by the OpenSanctions team.

External dataset · OpenSanctions · non-official source

Source data IDs: evpo-dbbac9c1-0804-47ba-a5d7-7a877cda4d9b · ch-parl-councillor-396

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