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Thomas Matter

Politician

Thomas Matter 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	Thomas Matter · توماس ماتير				[sources]
Alias	Matter, Thomas				[sources]
Birth date	1966-03-23				[sources]
Place of birth	Liestal				[sources]
Gender	male				[sources]
Nationality	Switzerland				[sources]
Country	Switzerland				[sources]
Citizenship	Switzerland				[sources]
Classification	National government (current)				[sources]
First name	Thomas				[sources]
Last name	Matter				[sources]
Political association	Swiss People's Party · Union Démocratique du Centre				[sources]
Spoken language	German				[sources]
Title	Conseiller national				[sources]
Website	www.mattergroup.ch · www.thomasmatter.ch				[sources]
Wikidata ID	Q17305571				[sources]
Position	Member of the Swiss National Council (2014-) · National Council (member, 2011-2015) · National Council (member, 2015-)				[sources]
Religion	Matter Thomas				[sources]
Address	Muhen · Seefeldstrasse 215, 8008 Zürich · Sissach · Zurich				[sources]
Last change	2026-01-15	Last processed	2026-01-16	First seen	2019-05-21

Descriptions

Mitglied Parteileitungsausschuss, Parteileitung, Parteivorstand, Vorstand Fraktion

— Swiss Federal Assembly, 2025-10-13

Swiss private banker

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

Relationships

Positions held
Position occupied	Start date	End date
Member of the National Council	2015-11-30	-
Conseil national

Data sources

Wikidata Persons in Relevant Categories384,022

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

Global · Wikidata · non-official source

Swiss Federal Assembly898

Current and recent Members of the Swiss Federal Assembly (Bundesversammlung)

Switzerland · Parliamentary Services of the Federal Assembly

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 Persons316,647

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

Global · Wikidata · non-official source

External databases

The record has been enriched with data from the following external databases:

Wikidata335,233

Wikidata is the structured data project of the Wikipedia community, providing fact-based information edited by humans and machines

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

Source data IDs: evpo-a0475243-84c7-4f8d-b65f-5bc818fa99a7 · ch-parl-councillor-4144

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