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Rudolf Rechsteiner

Politician

Rudolf Rechsteiner 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	Rudolf Rechsteiner · رودولف ريتشستينير				[sources]
Alias	Rechsteiner, Rudolf				[sources]
Birth date	1958-10-27				[sources]
Place of birth	Basel · Bâle				[sources]
Gender	male				[sources]
Nationality	Switzerland				[sources]
Country	Switzerland				[sources]
Citizenship	Switzerland				[sources]
Classification	National government (past)				[sources]
First name	Rudolf				[sources]
Last name	Rechsteiner				[sources]
Political association	Parti socialiste suisse · Social Democratic Party of Switzerland				[sources]
Spoken language	German				[sources]
Title	Conseiller national · Dr. rer. pol.				[sources]
Wikidata ID	Q119963				[sources]
Position	Member of the Swiss National Council (1995-2010) · National Council (member, 2003-2007) · National Council (member, 2007-2010)				[sources]
Education	University of Basel · University of Geneva				[sources]
Religion	Rechsteiner-Basel				[sources]
Address	Appenzell · Bâle-Ville				[sources]
Last change	2025-12-20	Last processed	2025-12-20	First seen	2019-05-21

Descriptions

Legislative des Kantons Basel-Stadt: von Mai 1988 bis Januar 1999; Vizepräsident SP Basel-Stadt: von Juni 1993 bis Juni 1995

— 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	1995-12-04	2010-05-30

Data sources

Wikidata Politically Exposed Persons275,232

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

Global · Wikidata · non-official source

Wikidata Persons in Relevant Categories384,808

Category-based imports 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 Legislators57,731

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

Global · MySociety · non-official source

External databases

The record has been enriched with data from the following external databases:

Wikidata355,697

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

PEP position annotations by OpenSanctions552,160

Entity categorisation decisions by the OpenSanctions team.

External dataset · OpenSanctions · non-official source

Source data IDs: evpo-0f4d8b8d-26c7-4b9b-9e31-2fe4006f2623 · ch-parl-councillor-348

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