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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	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	2025-10-14	Last processed	2025-11-20	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
Conseil des Etats	2019-12-02	2023-12-03

Data sources

Every Politician57,742

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Global · MySociety · non-official source

Swiss Federal Assembly901

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

Switzerland · Parliamentary Services of the Federal Assembly

Wikidata Politically Exposed Persons277,144

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

Global · Wikidata · non-official source

Wikidata Persons in Relevant Categories381,040

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Global · Wikidata · non-official source

External databases

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PEP position annotations by OpenSanctions552,757

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External dataset · OpenSanctions · non-official source

Wikidata353,743

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External dataset · Global · Wikidata · non-official source

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

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