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Matthias Wissmann

Politician

Matthias Wissmann 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	Matthias Wissmann · Маттиас Виссманн · ماتثياس ويسمان · ماتياس فسمان · マティアス・ヴィスマン · 2 more...				[sources]
Alias	Wissmann! · Висман, Матиас · Висманн, Матиас · Виссманн, Матиас · Виссманн, Маттиас · 6 more...				[sources]
Birth date	1949-04-15				[sources]
Place of birth	Ludwigsburg				[sources]
Gender	male				[sources]
Nationality	Germany				[sources]
Country	Germany				[sources]
Citizenship	Germany				[sources]
Classification	National government (past)				[sources]
First name	Matthias				[sources]
Last name	Wissmann				[sources]
Political association	CDU · Christian Democratic Union				[sources]
Wikidata ID	Q316609				[sources]
Position	Bundesminister für Verkehr (1993-1998) · Bundestag (member, 2005-2007) · member of the German Bundestag (1976-1980) · member of the German Bundestag (1980-1983) · member of the German Bundestag (1983-1987) · 6 more...				[sources]
Education	Rechtsanwalt, Bundesminister für Verkehr a. D. · University of Bonn · University of Tübingen				[sources]
Religion	katholisch				[sources]
Last change	2026-01-18	Last processed	2026-01-22	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	2005-10-18	2007-05-31
Member of the Bundestag

Data sources

Wikidata Persons in Relevant Categories383,917

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

Global · Wikidata · 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

MySociety's EveryPolitician Dataset of National Legislators40,653

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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Wikidata334,496

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External dataset · Global · Wikidata · non-official source

PEP position annotations by OpenSanctions526,362

Entity categorisation decisions by the OpenSanctions team.

External dataset · OpenSanctions · non-official source

Source data IDs: evpo-7524cc76-1423-45e9-ba30-5f10448f7d8a · de-btg-mdb-11002534

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