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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	Swiss People's Party · 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	2025-12-20	Last processed	2025-12-20	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
Member of the National Council	2015-11-30	-
Conseil national

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 Categories384,631

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

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:

Wikidata355,584

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

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