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Hans Widmer

Politician

Hans Widmer 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	Hans Widmer · هانس ويدمير				[sources]
Alias	Juan Widmer · Widmer, Hans				[sources]
Birth date	1941-09-09				[sources]
Place of birth	Hochdorf				[sources]
Gender	male				[sources]
Nationality	Switzerland				[sources]
Country	Switzerland				[sources]
Citizenship	Switzerland				[sources]
Classification	National government (past)				[sources]
First name	Hans				[sources]
Last name	Widmer				[sources]
Political association	Parti socialiste suisse · Social Democratic Party of Switzerland				[sources]
Spoken language	German				[sources]
Title	Conseiller national · Dr. phil				[sources]
Wikidata ID	Q121843				[sources]
Position	Member of the Swiss National Council (1996-2010) · National Council (member, 2003-2007) · National Council (member, 2007-2010)				[sources]
Religion	Widmer Hans				[sources]
Address	Hochdorf · Lucerne				[sources]
Last change	2026-01-15	Last processed	2026-01-16	First seen	2019-05-21

Descriptions

Legislative der Gemeinde Luzern (Grosser Stadtrat): von 1979 bis 1987, Legislative des Kantons (Grossrat): von 1987 bis 1996; Geschäftsleitung der SP Kanton Luzern seit Frühjahr 2003

— 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

Data sources

Wikidata Persons in Relevant Categories384,022

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

Global · Wikidata · non-official source

MySociety's EveryPolitician Dataset of National Legislators57,728

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 Assembly898

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

Switzerland · Parliamentary Services of the Federal Assembly

Wikidata Politically Exposed Persons316,648

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

Global · Wikidata · non-official source

External databases

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Wikidata335,220

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External dataset · Global · Wikidata · non-official source

PEP position annotations by OpenSanctions540,372

Entity categorisation decisions by the OpenSanctions team.

External dataset · OpenSanctions · non-official source

Source data IDs: ch-parl-councillor-390 · evpo-956f39fe-8ab6-4aca-aabe-d93b32e8951c

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