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Achim Kessler

Politician

Achim Kessler 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	Achim Kessler · Ахим Кесслер · أكيم كيسلر · اكيم كيسلير				[sources]
Other name	Achim Dieter Kessler · Ахим Кесслер				[sources]
Birth date	1964-08-02				[sources]
Place of birth	St. Georgen im Schwarzwald				[sources]
Gender	male				[sources]
Nationality	Germany				[sources]
Country	Germany				[sources]
Citizenship	Germany				[sources]
Classification	National government (past)				[sources]
First name	Achim				[sources]
Last name	Kessler				[sources]
Political association	DIE LINKE.				[sources]
Website	twitter.com · www.achim-kessler.de				[sources]
Wikidata ID	Q39678866				[sources]
Position	Bundestag (member, 2017-) · city councilor of Frankfurt (2006-2011) · member of the German Bundestag (2017-2021)				[sources]
Education	Literaturwissenschaftler				[sources]
Last change	2025-10-13	Last processed	2025-11-11	First seen	2019-05-21

Descriptions

Literary scientist of Germany

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

Relationships

Positions held
Position occupied	Start date	End date
Member of the Bundestag	-	-
member of the German Bundestag	2017-10-24	2021-10-26

Data sources

Every Politician57,893

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Global · MySociety · non-official source

Wikidata Persons in Relevant Categories363,068

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

Global · Wikidata · non-official source

Wikidata Politically Exposed Persons276,139

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

Global · Wikidata · non-official source

Germany Members of the Bundestag1,828

Current and recent Members of the German Federal Parliament; mostly teachers and lawyers

Germany · German Bundestag

External databases

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Wikidata335,609

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External dataset · Global · Wikidata · non-official source

PEP position annotations by OpenSanctions551,576

Entity categorisation decisions by the OpenSanctions team.

External dataset · OpenSanctions · non-official source

Source data IDs: evpo-785190b1-debe-403a-8a01-0214490f108a · de-btg-mdb-11004776

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