Search OpenSanctions

Birgit Menz

PEP · Politician

Birgit Menz 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	Birgit Menz · בירגיט מנץ · بيرجيت مينز				[sources]
Alias	Menz, Birgit				[sources]
Birth date	1962-05-16				[sources]
Place of birth	Suhl				[sources]
Gender	female				[sources]
Nationality	not available				[sources]
Country	Germany				[sources]
Citizenship	East Germany · Germany				[sources]
Classification	National government (current)				[sources]
First name	Birgit				[sources]
Last name	Menz				[sources]
Political association	DIE LINKE. · Die Linke · Socialist Unity Party of Germany				[sources]
Website	www.birgit-menz.de				[sources]
Wikidata ID	Q19758044				[sources]
Wikipedia Article	en.wikipedia.org				[sources]
Position	Bundestag (member, 2013-2017) · member of the German Bundestag (2015-2017)				[sources]
Education	Buchhändlerin				[sources]
Last change	2026-04-07	Last processed	2026-04-27	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	2015-03-16	2017-10-24

Data sources

Wikidata Persons in Relevant Categories347,683

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

Global · Wikidata · non-official source

MySociety's EveryPolitician Legislators40,466

All members of national legislatures in the world, collected from hundreds of government web sites and consolidated via Wikidata.

Global · MySociety · 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

External databases

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

PEP position annotations by OpenSanctions522,419

Entity categorisation decisions by the OpenSanctions team.

External dataset · OpenSanctions · non-official source

Wikidata334,037

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

Source data IDs: evpo-f943e6aa-3eee-4f3f-bbd1-7a8904ac3804 · de-btg-mdb-11004619

For experts: raw data explorer

Using the API

This page is sourced from our API service. Sign up for an API key and authenticate your request.

We recommend using the /match API function when implementing a screening system.

Equivalent request

GET https://api.opensanctions.org/entities/Q19758044?nested=true

Read about the nested format.

Factsheet Descriptions Relationships Data sources

OpenSanctions is free for non-commercial users. Businesses must acquire a data license to use the dataset.

Use the API License in bulk