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Sebastian Frehner

Politician

Sebastian Frehner 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	Sebastian Frehner · سيباستيان فريهنير				[sources]
Alias	Frehner, Sebastian				[sources]
Weak alias	Frehner				[sources]
Birth date	1973-09-02				[sources]
Place of birth	Basel · Bâle				[sources]
Gender	male				[sources]
Nationality	Switzerland				[sources]
Country	Switzerland				[sources]
Citizenship	Switzerland				[sources]
Classification	National government (unknown status)				[sources]
First name	Sebastian				[sources]
Last name	Frehner				[sources]
Political association	Union Démocratique du Centre				[sources]
Spoken language	German				[sources]
Title	Conseiller national · Dr. iur.				[sources]
Wikidata ID	Q121347				[sources]
Position	Member of the Swiss National Council (2010-2019) · National Council (member, 2007-2011) · National Council (member, 2011-2015) · National Council (member, 2015-)				[sources]
Religion	Frehner				[sources]
Address	Bâle · Bâle-Ville · Urnäsch				[sources]
Last change	2025-10-13	Last processed	2025-11-20	First seen	2019-05-21

Descriptions

Präsident der SVP Basel-Stadt: seit Januar 2009; Mitglied des ZV der SVP Schweiz: seit Januar 2006; Vizepräsident der SVP Basel-Stadt: von Januar 2006 bis Juni 2009; Legislative des Kantons (Grossrat): von Februar 2005 bis September 2014

— 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

Every Politician57,742

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

Wikidata Politically Exposed Persons277,168

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

Global · Wikidata · non-official source

Wikidata Persons in Relevant Categories381,064

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Global · Wikidata · non-official source

External databases

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PEP position annotations by OpenSanctions552,903

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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-a74104ee-99e6-4c07-8275-831980f46c91 · ch-parl-councillor-4042

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