Search OpenSanctions

Edgar Franke

Politician

Edgar Franke 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	Edgar Franke · Едґар Франке · إدغار فرانك · ادجار فرانك				[sources]
Other name	Edgar Konrad Hartmut Franke · Franke, Edgar				[sources]
Birth date	1960-01-21				[sources]
Place of birth	Gudensberg				[sources]
Gender	male				[sources]
Nationality	Germany				[sources]
Country	Germany				[sources]
Citizenship	Germany				[sources]
Classification	National government (past)				[sources]
First name	Edgar				[sources]
Last name	Franke				[sources]
Political association	SPD				[sources]
Website	www.edgarfranke.de · facebook.com · twitter.com · www.edgarfranke.de				[sources]
Wikidata ID	Q1283882				[sources]
Position	Bundestag (member, 2009-2013) · Bundestag (member, 2013-2017) · Bundestag (member, 2017-) · mayor · member of the German Bundestag (2009-2013) · 3 more...				[sources]
Education	Bürgermeister a. D., Jurist · doctorate				[sources]
Religion	Protestant church · evangelisch				[sources]
Last change	2025-10-13	Last processed	2025-11-11	First seen	2019-05-21

Descriptions

German politician

— Wikidata non-official source, 2023-07-18

Relationships

Positions held
Position occupied	Start date	End date
Member of the Bundestag	-	-
member of the German Bundestag	2009-10-27	2013-10-22

Data sources

Every Politician57,893

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 Politically Exposed Persons276,163

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

Global · Wikidata · non-official source

Wikidata Persons in Relevant Categories361,573

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

Global · Wikidata · non-official source

Germany Members of the Bundestag1,828

Current and recent Members of the German Federal Parliament; mostly teachers and lawyers

Germany · German Bundestag

External databases

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

PEP position annotations by OpenSanctions551,700

Entity categorisation decisions by the OpenSanctions team.

External dataset · OpenSanctions · non-official source

Wikidata334,854

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

Source data IDs: de-btg-mdb-11004033 · evpo-15c5b78b-2ffc-4805-99d3-f050b39f7718

For experts: raw data explorer

Factsheet Descriptions Data sources

OpenSanctions is free for non-commercial users. Businesses must acquire a data license to use the dataset.

Use the API License in bulk