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Urs Gasche

Politician

Urs Gasche 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	Urs Gasche · ارس جاستش				[sources]
Alias	Gasche, Urs				[sources]
Birth date	1955-03-15				[sources]
Place of birth	Bern · Berne				[sources]
Gender	male				[sources]
Nationality	Switzerland				[sources]
Country	Switzerland				[sources]
Citizenship	Switzerland				[sources]
Classification	National government (past)				[sources]
First name	Urs				[sources]
Last name	Gasche				[sources]
Political association	Conservative Democratic Party of Switzerland · Parti bourgeois-démocratique suisse · Swiss People's Party				[sources]
Spoken language	German				[sources]
Title	Conseiller national · Rechtsanwalt				[sources]
Wikidata ID	Q63449				[sources]
Position	Member of the Swiss National Council (2011-2015) · Member of the Swiss National Council (2015-2017) · National Council (member, 2011-2015) · National Council (member, 2015-2017)				[sources]
Religion	Gasche				[sources]
Address	Berne · Derendingen · Oekingen				[sources]
Last change	2025-12-20	Last processed	2025-12-20	First seen	2019-05-21

Descriptions

Mitglied des Vorstandes der BDP Schweiz; Mitglied des Vorstandes der BDP Sektion Fraubrunnen; Exekutive der Gemeinde Fraubrunnen: von 1990 bis 2001; Gemeindepräsident: von 1994 bis 2001; Exekutive des Kantons (Regierungsrat): von September 2001 bis Mai 2010; Präsident der BDP Kanton Bern: von Juni 2010 bis März 2011

— Swiss Federal Assembly, 2025-10-13

Swiss politician and lawyer

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

Relationships

Positions held
Position occupied	Start date	End date
Member of the Swiss National Council	2011-12-05	2015-11-29

Data sources

Wikidata Persons in Relevant Categories384,631

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Global · Wikidata · non-official source

Wikidata Politically Exposed Persons275,232

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Global · Wikidata · non-official source

Swiss Federal Assembly900

Current and recent Members of the Swiss Federal Assembly (Bundesversammlung)

Switzerland · Parliamentary Services of the Federal Assembly

MySociety's EveryPolitician Dataset of National Legislators57,731

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

Global · MySociety · non-official source

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PEP position annotations by OpenSanctions552,461

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External dataset · OpenSanctions · non-official source

Wikidata355,584

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External dataset · Global · Wikidata · non-official source

Source data IDs: ch-parl-councillor-4071 · evpo-663378f8-8716-443b-a6b7-8c03200e77cc

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