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Werner Salzmann

Politician

Werner Salzmann 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	Werner Salzmann · Вернер Зальцманн · ويرنير سالزمان				[sources]
Alias	Salzmann, Werner				[sources]
Birth date	1962-11-05				[sources]
Place of birth	3084 Gurtendorf bei Wabern				[sources]
Gender	male				[sources]
Nationality	Switzerland				[sources]
Country	Switzerland				[sources]
Citizenship	Switzerland				[sources]
Classification	National government (current)				[sources]
E-Mail	werner.salzmann@parl.ch				[sources]
First name	Werner				[sources]
Last name	Salzmann				[sources]
Political association	Swiss People's Party · Union Démocratique du Centre				[sources]
Spoken language	German				[sources]
Title	Ing. Agr. FH / Chefexperte Landwirtschaft · Vice-président du Conseil des Etats				[sources]
Website	www.werner-salzmann.ch · www.werner-salzmann.ch				[sources]
Wikidata ID	Q21294826				[sources]
Position	Member of the Swiss Council of States (2019-) · Member of the Swiss National Council (2015-2019) · National Council (member, 2015-)				[sources]
Religion	Salzmann				[sources]
Address	Berne · Eggiwil				[sources]
Last change	2025-12-20	Last processed	2025-12-20	First seen	2019-05-21

Descriptions

SVP Kanton Bern; SVP Verwaltungskreis Mittelland; SVP Wahlkreis Mittelland-Nord; SVP Kanton Bern; SVP Region Fraubrunnen; Fachkommission Landwirtschaft der SVP-Bundeshausfraktion; SVP Schweiz

— Swiss Federal Assembly, 2025-10-13

Swiss politician

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

Relationships

Positions held
Position occupied	Start date	End date
Member of the Swiss National Council	2015-11-30	2019-12-01

Data sources

Wikidata Politically Exposed Persons275,232

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

Global · Wikidata · non-official source

Wikidata Persons in Relevant Categories384,631

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

Global · Wikidata · non-official source

Swiss Federal Assembly900

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

Switzerland · Parliamentary Services of the Federal Assembly

MySociety's EveryPolitician Dataset of National Legislators57,731

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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Wikidata355,584

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External dataset · Global · Wikidata · non-official source

PEP position annotations by OpenSanctions552,461

Entity categorisation decisions by the OpenSanctions team.

External dataset · OpenSanctions · non-official source

Source data IDs: evpo-ca6208d2-6c6e-4646-8be6-6d08b93734c1 · ch-parl-councillor-4172

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