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Kees de Vries

Politician

Kees de Vries 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	Kees de Vries · Кес Де Фриз · Кіс де Фріс · بيتروس دى فريس · كيس دي فريس				[sources]
Alias	Kees Cornelis Petrus Jozef de Vries · Vries, Kees de · Кес Де Фриз · بيتروس دي فريس				[sources]
Birth date	1955-08-30				[sources]
Place of birth	Nibbixwoud				[sources]
Death date	2025-10-13				[sources]
Gender	male				[sources]
Nationality	Germany				[sources]
Country	Germany				[sources]
Citizenship	Germany · Netherlands				[sources]
Classification	National government (past)				[sources]
First name	Jozef · Kees · Petrus				[sources]
Last name	De Vries				[sources]
Political association	Christian Democratic Union				[sources]
Website	keesdevries.de · facebook.com · twitter.com				[sources]
Wikidata ID	Q14943723				[sources]
Position	Bundestag (member, 2013-2017) · Bundestag (member, 2017-) · member of the German Bundestag (2013-2017) · member of the German Bundestag (2017-2021)				[sources]
Religion	Catholic Church				[sources]
Last change	2026-01-15	Last processed	2026-01-16	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	2013-10-22	2017-10-24
member of the German Bundestag	2017-10-24

Data sources

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

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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Wikidata335,233

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External dataset · Global · Wikidata · non-official source

PEP position annotations by OpenSanctions540,381

Entity categorisation decisions by the OpenSanctions team.

External dataset · OpenSanctions · non-official source

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