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Günter Krings

Politician

Günter Krings 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	Günter Krings · Гюнтер Крингс · Ґюнтер Крінґс · جونتير كرينجس · 귄터 크링스				[sources]
Other name	Dr. Günter Krings · Dr. Krings, Günter · Gunter Krings · Krings, Günter · Гюнтер Крингс · 1 more...				[sources]
Birth date	1969-08-07				[sources]
Place of birth	Rheydt				[sources]
Gender	male				[sources]
Nationality	Germany				[sources]
Country	Germany				[sources]
Citizenship	Germany				[sources]
Classification	National government (current)				[sources]
Country of birth	Germany				[sources]
First name	Günter				[sources]
Last name	Krings				[sources]
Political association	CDU				[sources]
Website	www.guenter-krings.de · facebook.com · twitter.com · www.guenter-krings.de				[sources]
Wikidata ID	Q1560703				[sources]
Position	Bundestag (member, 2005-2009) · Bundestag (member, 2009-2013) · Bundestag (member, 2013-2017) · Bundestag (member, 2017-) · Federal Government Commissioner for Matters Related to Ethnic German Resettlers and National Minorities (2017-2018) · 8 more...				[sources]
Education	Jurist · doctorate				[sources]
Religion	evangelisch				[sources]
Source link	www.abgeordnetenwatch.de				[sources]
Last change	2025-10-13	Last processed	2025-11-11	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

Data sources

German Legislators from AbgeordnetenWatch2,536

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

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

Wikidata Persons in Relevant Categories361,763

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

Global · Wikidata · non-official source

Germany Members of the Bundestag1,828

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

Germany · German Bundestag

Every Politician57,893

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 Persons276,139

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

Global · Wikidata · non-official source

External databases

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PEP position annotations by OpenSanctions551,576

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External dataset · OpenSanctions · non-official source

Wikidata335,470

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External dataset · Global · Wikidata · non-official source

Source data IDs: evpo-4b33d098-9a84-45a8-b07f-7286989fd17d · de-btg-mdb-11003574

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