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Hansjörg Knecht

Politician

Hansjörg Knecht 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	Hansjörg Knecht · هانسچورج كنيتشت				[sources]
Alias	Hansjoerg Knecht · Hansjorg Knecht · Knecht, Hansjörg				[sources]
Birth date	1960-03-24				[sources]
Place of birth	Leuggern				[sources]
Gender	male				[sources]
Nationality	Switzerland				[sources]
Country	Switzerland				[sources]
Citizenship	Switzerland				[sources]
Classification	National government (unknown status)				[sources]
First name	Hansjörg				[sources]
Last name	Knecht				[sources]
Political association	Swiss People's Party · Union Démocratique du Centre				[sources]
Spoken language	German				[sources]
Title	Député au Conseil des Etats				[sources]
Website	www.hansjoerg-knecht.ch				[sources]
Wikidata ID	Q118541				[sources]
Position	Member of the Swiss Council of States (2019-2023) · Member of the Swiss National Council (2011-2019) · National Council (member, 2011-2015) · National Council (member, 2015-)				[sources]
Religion	Knecht				[sources]
Address	Argovie · Leibstadt				[sources]
Last change	2025-12-20	Last processed	2025-12-20	First seen	2019-05-21

Descriptions

Exekutive der Gemeinde (Gemeinderat) Leibstadt: von Januar 1990 bis Dezember 1997; Legislative des Kantons (Grossrat): von März 1996 bis Januar 2012

— 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	2015-11-30	2019-12-01

Data sources

MySociety's EveryPolitician Dataset of National Legislators57,731

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 Categories384,808

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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

Wikidata Politically Exposed Persons275,232

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Global · Wikidata · non-official source

External databases

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Wikidata355,697

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External dataset · Global · Wikidata · non-official source

PEP position annotations by OpenSanctions552,160

Entity categorisation decisions by the OpenSanctions team.

External dataset · OpenSanctions · non-official source

Source data IDs: evpo-e26b1120-3440-410b-beb0-9bf536b01c3f · ch-parl-councillor-4114

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