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Gerd Höfer

Politician

Gerd Höfer 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	Gerd Höfer · جيرد هوفير				[sources]
Alias	Hofer!				[sources]
Birth date	1943-02-23				[sources]
Place of birth	Aschersleben · Aschersleben / Sachsen-Anhalt				[sources]
Gender	male				[sources]
Nationality	Germany				[sources]
Country	Germany				[sources]
Citizenship	Germany				[sources]
Classification	National government (past)				[sources]
First name	Gerd				[sources]
Last name	Höfer				[sources]
Political association	SPD · Social Democratic Party of Germany				[sources]
Wikidata ID	Q1510571				[sources]
Position	Bundestag (member, 2005-2009) · Representative of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (2003-2010) · member of the German Bundestag (1994-1998) · member of the German Bundestag (1998-2002) · member of the German Bundestag (2002-2005) · 1 more...				[sources]
Education	Lehrer				[sources]
Religion	ohne Angaben				[sources]
Last change	2026-01-18	Last processed	2026-02-03	First seen	2019-05-21

Descriptions

politician

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

Relationships

Positions held
Position occupied	Start date	End date
member of the German Bundestag	2005-10-18	2009-10-27

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 Legislators40,649

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Global · MySociety · non-official source

External databases

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Wikidata333,863

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External dataset · Global · Wikidata · non-official source

PEP position annotations by OpenSanctions472,667

Entity categorisation decisions by the OpenSanctions team.

External dataset · OpenSanctions · non-official source

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