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Gerold Bührer

Politician

Gerold Bührer 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	Gerold Bührer · جيرولد بوهرير · 게롤트 뷔러				[sources]
Alias	Bührer, Gerold · Gerold Buehrer · Gerold Buhrer				[sources]
Birth date	1948-06-23				[sources]
Place of birth	Hofen				[sources]
Gender	male				[sources]
Nationality	Switzerland				[sources]
Country	Switzerland				[sources]
Citizenship	Switzerland				[sources]
Classification	National government (past)				[sources]
First name	Gerold				[sources]
Last name	Bührer				[sources]
Political association	Free Democratic Party of Switzerland				[sources]
Spoken language	German				[sources]
Title	Conseiller national · lic. oec. publ.				[sources]
Wikidata ID	Q120521				[sources]
Position	Member of the Cantonal Council of Schaffhausen (1982-1991) · Member of the Swiss National Council (1991-2007) · National Council (member, 2003-2007)				[sources]
Religion	Bührer Gerold				[sources]
Address	Bibern · Hemishofen · Schaffhouse				[sources]
Last change	2025-12-20	Last processed	2025-12-20	First seen	2019-05-21

Descriptions

Grosser Rat des Kantons SH von 1982 bis 1991; Präsident der FDP Schweiz vom April 2001 bis November 2002

— 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	2003-12-01	2007-12-02

Relatives
Person	Relationship	Start date	End date
Elisabeth Zölch Politician	spouse	-	-

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

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 Categories384,631

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

Global · Wikidata · non-official source

Swiss Federal Assembly900

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

Switzerland · Parliamentary Services of the Federal Assembly

External databases

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Wikidata355,582

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External dataset · Global · Wikidata · non-official source

PEP position annotations by OpenSanctions552,461

Entity categorisation decisions by the OpenSanctions team.

External dataset · OpenSanctions · non-official source

Source data IDs: evpo-616e8782-4425-4fef-9cd8-ec65d8b0d69b · ch-parl-councillor-34

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