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Torsten Schweiger

Politician

Torsten Schweiger 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	Torsten Schweiger · Торстен Швайґер				[sources]
Birth date	1968-02-29				[sources]
Place of birth	Gräfenhainichen				[sources]
Gender	male				[sources]
Nationality	Germany				[sources]
Country	Germany				[sources]
Citizenship	Germany				[sources]
Classification	National government (past)				[sources]
First name	Torsten				[sources]
Last name	Schweiger				[sources]
Political association	CDU				[sources]
Wikidata ID	Q40999416				[sources]
Position	Bundestag (member, 2017-) · member of the German Bundestag				[sources]
Education	Dipl.-Ingenieur				[sources]
Religion	religionslos				[sources]
Last change	2025-12-01	Last processed	2025-12-01	First seen	2019-05-21

Descriptions

German politician (CDU)

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

Relationships

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

Data sources

Every Politician57,742

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Global · MySociety · non-official source

Wikidata Politically Exposed Persons277,128

Profiles of politically exposed persons 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

Wikidata Persons in Relevant Categories198,585

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Global · Wikidata · non-official source

External databases

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Wikidata357,112

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External dataset · Global · Wikidata · non-official source

PEP position annotations by OpenSanctions515,989

Entity categorisation decisions by the OpenSanctions team.

External dataset · OpenSanctions · non-official source

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