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Thorsten Frei

Politician

Thorsten Frei 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	Thorsten Frei · Торстен Фрай · Торстен Фрей · טורסטן פריי · تورستن فراي · 1 more...				[sources]
Other name	Frei, Thorsten · Торстен Фрей				[sources]
Birth date	1973-08-08				[sources]
Place of birth	Bad Säckingen				[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	Thorsten				[sources]
Last name	Frei				[sources]
Political association	CDU				[sources]
Website	www.thorsten-frei.de · facebook.com · thorsten-frei.de				[sources]
Wikidata ID	Q2429104				[sources]
Position	Bundestag (member, 2013-2017) · Bundestag (member, 2017-) · Chancellery Chief of Staff · Federal Minister for Special Affairs of Germany · Head of the Fed. Chancellery & Minister for Special Affairs · 5 more...				[sources]
Education	Jurist, Oberbürgermeister a. D.				[sources]
Religion	Catholic Church · römisch-katholisch				[sources]
Source link	www.abgeordnetenwatch.de · www.cia.gov				[sources]
Last change	2025-10-19	Last processed	2025-10-21	First seen	2019-05-21

Descriptions

German politician

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

Relationships

Positions held
Position occupied	Start date	End date
Chancellery Chief of Staff	-	-

Data sources

Wikidata Politically Exposed Persons274,427

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

Global · Wikidata · non-official source

German Members of the Bundestag1,829

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 Persons in Relevant Categories376,087

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

Global · Wikidata · non-official source

US CIA World Leaders11,077

An index of most national-level cabinet members in world governments that is publicly maintained by the CIA.

United States · CIA

German Legislators from AbgeordnetenWatch2,535

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

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

External databases

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PEP position annotations by OpenSanctions549,496

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External dataset · OpenSanctions · non-official source

Wikidata350,291

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-18f243c1-3338-4e7c-a09d-a67f0ec366d8 · us-cia-germany-thorsten-frei-head-of-the-fed-chancellery-minister-for-special-affairs · de-btg-mdb-11004276

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