Search OpenSanctions

Sylvia Canel

Politician

Sylvia Canel 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	Sylvia Canel · Sylvia Canelová				[sources]
Alias	Canel, Sylvia				[sources]
Birth date	1958-05-22				[sources]
Place of birth	Hamburg				[sources]
Gender	female				[sources]
Nationality	Germany				[sources]
Country	Germany				[sources]
Citizenship	Germany				[sources]
Classification	National government (past)				[sources]
First name	Sylvia				[sources]
Last name	Canel				[sources]
Political association	FDP · Free Democratic Party · The Social Liberals				[sources]
Wikidata ID	Q1361623				[sources]
Position	Bundestag (member, 2009-2013) · Representative of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (2011-2014) · member of the German Bundestag (2009-2013) · substitute member of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (2010-2011)				[sources]
Education	Gymnasiallehrerin				[sources]
Religion	ohne Angaben				[sources]
Last change	2026-01-18	Last processed	2026-02-14	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 German Bundestag	2009-10-27	2013-10-22

Data sources

Germany Members of the Bundestag1,825

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

Germany · German Bundestag

MySociety's EveryPolitician Legislators40,633

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:

PEP position annotations by OpenSanctions503,185

Entity categorisation decisions by the OpenSanctions team.

External dataset · OpenSanctions · non-official source

Wikidata326,007

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: evpo-0d11e169-3b56-4418-abae-15926f0ccc86 · de-btg-mdb-11004024

For experts: raw data explorer

Using the API

This page is sourced from our API service. Sign up for an API key and authenticate your request.

We recommend using the /match API function when implementing a screening system.

Equivalent request

GET https://api.opensanctions.org/entities/Q1361623?nested=true

Read about the nested format.

Factsheet Descriptions Relationships 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