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Friedrich Merz

PEP · Politician · Close Associate

Friedrich Merz 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	Fridrix Merts · Friedrich Merz · Frīdrihs Mercs · Φρίντριχ Μερτς · Фридрих Мертс · 14 more...				[sources]
Alias	Chanceler Merz · Chancellor Merz · Fridericus Merz · Fridrix Merz · Joachim-Friedrich Martin Josef Merz · 9 more...				[sources]
Weak alias	Merz · フリードリッヒ・メルツ · ヨアヒム＝フリードリッヒ・マルティン・ヨーゼフ・メルツ · ヨアヒム＝フリードリヒ・マルティン・ヨーゼフ・メルツ · 弗雷德里希·梅尔茨 · 1 more...				[sources]
Birth date	1955-11-11				[sources]
Place of birth	Brilon				[sources]
Gender	male				[sources]
Nationality	not available				[sources]
Country	Germany				[sources]
Citizenship	Germany				[sources]
Classification	National government (current)				[sources]
Country of birth	Germany				[sources]
First name	Friedrich · Joachim-Friedrich · Josef · Martin				[sources]
Last name	Merz				[sources]
Political association	CDU · Christian Democratic Union				[sources]
Title	His Excellency				[sources]
Website	www.friedrich-merz.de · www.friedrich-merz.de				[sources]
Wikidata ID	Q566257				[sources]
Wikipedia Article	en.wikipedia.org				[sources]
Position	Bundestag (member, 2005-2009) · Chairman of the CDU/CSU Bundestag fraction (2000-2002) · Chancellor · Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany · Federal Chancellor of Germany (2025-) · 8 more...				[sources]
Education	Friedrich-Spee-Gymnasium (-1975) · Gymnasium Petrinum (1966-1971) · Rechtsanwalt · University of Bonn · University of Marburg				[sources]
Religion	römisch-katholisch				[sources]
Source link	www.abgeordnetenwatch.de · www.cia.gov				[sources]
Last change	2026-04-15	Last processed	2026-04-22	First seen	2019-05-21

Descriptions

German politician, Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany

— Wikidata non-official source, 2025-10-15

Relationships

Family members
Relative	Relationship	Start date	End date
Carola Clüsener Close Associate	child	-	-

Positions held
Position occupied	Start date	End date
leader of the Christian Democratic Union	2022-01-22	-

Data sources

Wikidata Persons in Relevant Categories343,730

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

Global · Wikidata · non-official source

German Legislators from AbgeordnetenWatch2,434

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

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

US CIA World Leaders10,967

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

United States · CIA

MySociety's EveryPolitician Legislators40,466

All members of national legislatures in the world, collected from hundreds of government web sites and consolidated via Wikidata.

Global · MySociety · 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

UN Heads of State, Heads of Government and Ministers for Foreign Affairs1,070

The UN's list of senior government officials in all of its member states.

DGACM

Wikidata Politically Exposed Persons276,688

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

Global · Wikidata · non-official source

External databases

The record has been enriched with data from the following external databases:

Wikidata331,008

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

PEP position annotations by OpenSanctions503,956

Entity categorisation decisions by the OpenSanctions team.

External dataset · OpenSanctions · non-official source

Source data IDs: us-cia-germany-friedrich-merz-chancellor · unprot-ae55cb1d289b8be2f4b5b77e95fb0f299918dd16 · de-btg-mdb-11002735 · unprot-c18f5df8ea564fedc45813aec8dbd315b8821ac0 · evpo-b5622fad-1210-4e8d-99b0-17c0d953b1a9

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