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Alois Rainer

PEP · Politician · Close Associate

Alois Rainer 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	Alois Georg Josef Rainer · Alois Rainer · Алоис Райнер · Алойс Райнер · Алоіс Райнер · 4 more...				[sources]
Alias	Alois Georg Josef Rainer · Alois Rainer · Rainer, Alois · Rainer, Alois Georg Josef · Райнер, Алоис · 1 more...				[sources]
Birth date	1965-01-07				[sources]
Place of birth	Straubing				[sources]
Gender	male				[sources]
Country	Germany				[sources]
Citizenship	Germany				[sources]
Classification	National government (current)				[sources]
Country of birth	Germany				[sources]
First name	Alois · Georg · Josef				[sources]
Last name	Rainer				[sources]
Political association	CSU · Christian Social Union of Bavaria				[sources]
Website	www.alois-rainer.de · alois-rainer.jimdo.com · www.alois-rainer.com · www.alois-rainer.de				[sources]
Wikidata ID	Q15434505				[sources]
Wikipedia Article	en.wikipedia.org				[sources]
Position	Bundestag (member, 2013-2017) · Federal Minister of Agriculture, Food and Regional Identity (2025-) · mayor (1996-2014) · member of the German Bundestag (2013-2017) · member of the German Bundestag (2017-2021) · 2 more...				[sources]
Education	Metzgermeister				[sources]
Religion	Catholic Church · römisch-katholisch				[sources]
Source link	www.abgeordnetenwatch.de · www.cducsu.de				[sources]
Last change	2026-04-13	Last processed	2026-04-13	First seen	2019-05-21

Descriptions

German politician (born 1965)

— 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

Relatives
Person	Relationship	Start date	End date
Alois Rainer PEP	child · father	-	-
Gerda Hasselfeldt PEP

Data sources

Wikidata Politically Exposed Persons275,710

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

Global · Wikidata · non-official source

German Legislators from AbgeordnetenWatch2,434

Members of the German national legislature (The Bundestag) and state legislatures (Landstag).

Germany · Parlamentwatch e.V. · non-official source

Wikidata Persons in Relevant Categories342,715

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

Global · Wikidata · non-official source

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 Legislators40,512

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

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Wikidata330,422

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External dataset · Global · Wikidata · non-official source

PEP position annotations by OpenSanctions502,929

Entity categorisation decisions by the OpenSanctions team.

External dataset · OpenSanctions · non-official source

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