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Olaf Scholz

PEP · Politician · Close Associate

Olaf Scholz 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	Olaf Scholz · Olaf Şolts · Olafs Šolcs · Όλαφ Σολτς · Олаф Шолтс · 13 more...				[sources]
Alias	Chancellor Scholz · Olaus Scholz · Scholz, Olaf · Όλαφ Σολτς · Канцлер Шольц · 8 more...				[sources]
Weak alias	Scholzomat · オーラフ・ショルツ · 奥拉夫·肖尔茨 · 奧拉夫·朔爾茨 · 奧拉夫·蕭茲				[sources]
Birth date	1958-06-14				[sources]
Place of birth	Osnabrück				[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	Olaf				[sources]
Last name	Scholz				[sources]
Political association	SPD · Social Democratic Party of Germany				[sources]
Website	www.olafscholz.hamburg · olaf-scholz.spd.de · olaf-scholz.spd.de				[sources]
Wikidata ID	Q61053				[sources]
Wikipedia Article	en.wikipedia.org				[sources]
Position	Bundestag (member, 2005-2009) · Bundestag (member, 2009-2011) · Commissioner for Franco-German Cooperation (2015-2018) · Federal Chancellor of Germany (2021-2025) · Federal Minister of Finance (2018-2021) · 12 more...				[sources]
Education	Rechtsanwalt · University of Hamburg (1978-1985)				[sources]
Religion	irreligion · konfessionslos				[sources]
Source link	baike.sogou.com · www.abgeordnetenwatch.de				[sources]
Last change	2026-04-13	Last processed	2026-04-13	First seen	2019-05-21

Descriptions

German politician (SPD), ninth Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany (2021–2025), Member of the Bundestag

— Wikidata non-official source, 2025-11-25

Relationships

Associates
Associate	Relationship	Start date	End date
Werner Rätz Close Associate	partner in business or sport	1982-06-10	-

Family members
Relative	Relationship	Start date	End date
Jens Scholz Close Associate	sibling · younger brother	-	-
Christel Scholz Close Associate

Positions held
Position occupied	Start date	End date
Federal Chancellor of Germany	2021-12-08	2025-05-06

Relatives
Person	Relationship	Start date	End date
Britta Ernst PEP	spouse	1998	-

Data sources

MySociety's EveryPolitician Legislators40,512

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

Global · MySociety · non-official source

Wikidata Persons in Relevant Categories343,377

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

Germany Members of the Bundestag1,825

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

Germany · German Bundestag

Wikidata Politically Exposed Persons276,305

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:

PEP position annotations by OpenSanctions503,045

Entity categorisation decisions by the OpenSanctions team.

External dataset · OpenSanctions · non-official source

Wikidata330,656

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

Source data IDs: de-btg-mdb-11003231 · evpo-365454fe-8afc-41e2-9daf-8a8ecd6dbc23 · us-cia-germany-olaf-scholz-chancellor · unprot-9ee53627aa613179d914e031f8bad44a2d252118

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