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Martin Hess

Politician

Martin Hess 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	Martin Hess · مارتن هيس				[sources]
Other name	Martin Alexander Hess				[sources]
Birth date	1971-01-11				[sources]
Place of birth	Hechingen				[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	Martin				[sources]
Last name	Hess				[sources]
Political association	AfD				[sources]
Website	martin-hess-klartext.de				[sources]
Wikidata ID	Q40895536				[sources]
Position	Bundestag (member, 2017-) · member of the German Bundestag (2017-2021) · member of the German Bundestag (2021-) · member of the German Bundestag (2025-)				[sources]
Education	Polizeihauptkommissar a. D.				[sources]
Religion	konfessionslos				[sources]
Source link	www.abgeordnetenwatch.de				[sources]
Last change	2025-10-13	Last processed	2025-11-11	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	2021-10-26	2025-03-25

Data sources

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

German Legislators from AbgeordnetenWatch2,536

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

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

Wikidata Politically Exposed Persons276,144

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

Global · Wikidata · 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

Germany Members of the Bundestag1,827

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

Germany · German Bundestag

External databases

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PEP position annotations by OpenSanctions551,777

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External dataset · OpenSanctions · non-official source

Wikidata335,609

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External dataset · Global · Wikidata · non-official source

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