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Silvia Schenker

Politician

Silvia Schenker 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	Silvia Schenker · سيلڤيا ستشينكير				[sources]
Alias	Schenker, Silvia · Silvia Scheker				[sources]
Weak alias	Schenker				[sources]
Birth date	1954-01-17				[sources]
Place of birth	Aarau				[sources]
Gender	female				[sources]
Nationality	Switzerland				[sources]
Country	Switzerland				[sources]
Citizenship	Switzerland				[sources]
Classification	National government (unknown status)				[sources]
First name	Silvia				[sources]
Last name	Schenker				[sources]
Political association	Parti socialiste suisse				[sources]
Spoken language	German				[sources]
Title	Conseillère nationale				[sources]
Website	twitter.com				[sources]
Wikidata ID	Q117158				[sources]
Position	Member of the Swiss National Council (2003-2019) · National Council (member, 2003-2007) · National Council (member, 2007-2011) · National Council (member, 2011-2015) · National Council (member, 2015-)				[sources]
Religion	Schenker Silvia				[sources]
Address	Aarburg · Bâle-Ville · Heimiswil				[sources]
Last change	2025-10-13	Last processed	2025-11-20	First seen	2019-05-21

Descriptions

Legislative des Kantons (Grosser Rat): von März 1995 bis Januar 2004; Fraktionspräsidentin der SP im Grossen Rat: von 2001 bis 2004; Vizepräsidentin SP Schweiz: von September 2006 bis Oktober 2008

— Swiss Federal Assembly, 2025-10-13

Swiss politician

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

Relationships

Positions held
Position occupied	Start date	End date
Conseil national	2007-12-03	2011-12-04

Data sources

Wikidata Politically Exposed Persons277,144

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Global · Wikidata · non-official source

Wikidata Persons in Relevant Categories381,065

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

Global · Wikidata · 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

Swiss Federal Assembly901

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 OpenSanctions552,388

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External dataset · OpenSanctions · non-official source

Wikidata353,755

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External dataset · Global · Wikidata · non-official source

Source data IDs: evpo-a13dd9e3-b235-48be-a09a-767ebbbed32e · ch-parl-councillor-1129

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