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Mart Helme

Diplomat · PEP · Politician · Close Associate

Mart Helme 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	Mart Helme · Marts Helme · Март Гельме · Март Хельме · Март Хельмэ · 5 more...				[sources]
Alias	Marts Helme · Март Хельме · Хельме, Март · 瑪特·霍爾				[sources]
Weak alias	马尔特·赫尔姆 · 马尔特·赫尔梅				[sources]
Birth date	1949-10-31				[sources]
Place of birth	Pärnu				[sources]
Gender	male				[sources]
Country	Estonia				[sources]
Citizenship	Estonia · Soviet Union				[sources]
Classification	National government (current)				[sources]
Email	mart.helme@riigikogu.ee				[sources]
First name	Mart				[sources]
Last name	Helme				[sources]
Phone	+3726316497				[sources]
Political association	Conservative People's Party of Estonia · Estonian Freedom Party – Farmers’ Assembly · People's Union of Estonia				[sources]
Website	facebook.com				[sources]
Wikidata ID	Q1453245				[sources]
Wikipedia Article	en.wikipedia.org				[sources]
Position	Minister of the Interior (2019-2020) · Riigikogu (member, 2015-2019) · Riigikogu (member, 2019-2019) · ambassador of Estonia to Russia (1995-1999) · member of the Riigikogu (2015-) · 3 more...				[sources]
Education	University of Tartu (-1973)				[sources]
Last change	2026-04-03	Last processed	2026-04-03	First seen	2019-05-21

Descriptions

Estonian historian, diplomat and politician (born 1949)

— Wikidata non-official source, 2025-09-29

Relationships

Family members
Relative	Relationship	Start date	End date
Rein Helme Close Associate	brother · sibling	-	-
Sirje Helme Close Associate

Positions held
Position occupied	Start date	End date
member of the Riigikogu	-	-

Relatives
Person	Relationship	Start date	End date
Helle-Moonika Helme PEP	spouse	-	-

Data sources

Wikidata Politically Exposed Persons272,227

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

Global · Wikidata · non-official source

MySociety's EveryPolitician Legislators40,554

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 Persons in Relevant Categories340,703

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

Global · Wikidata · non-official source

Estonia Members of the Riigikogu102

Members of the Riigikogu, Estonia's unicameral parliament

Estonia · Riigikogu

External databases

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PEP position annotations by OpenSanctions500,418

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External dataset · OpenSanctions · non-official source

Wikidata328,010

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External dataset · Global · Wikidata · non-official source

Source data IDs: evpo-19247171-f7a1-4df3-b321-2dde7ae47d78 · ee-rii-378f6e871ef3499f3c6856ee80355e80c8b27788

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