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Markus Meckel

Politician

Markus Meckel 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	Markus Meckel · Маркус Мекель · ماركوس ميكل · ماركوس ميكيل · مارکوس مکل · 2 more...				[sources]
Alias	Johannes Markus Meckel · Meckel! · Мекель, Маркус · マルクス・メッケル				[sources]
Birth date	1952-08-18				[sources]
Place of birth	Müncheberg · Müncheberg / Brandenburg				[sources]
Gender	male				[sources]
Nationality	Germany				[sources]
Country	Germany				[sources]
Citizenship	East Germany · Germany				[sources]
Classification	National government (past)				[sources]
First name	Markus				[sources]
Last name	Meckel				[sources]
Political association	SPD · Social Democratic Party in the GDR · Social Democratic Party of Germany				[sources]
Website	markus-meckel.de				[sources]
Wikidata ID	Q64096				[sources]
Position	Bundestag (member, 2005-2009) · Minister for Foreign Affairs (German Democratic Republic) (1990-1990) · member of the German Bundestag (1990-1994) · member of the German Bundestag (1994-1998) · member of the German Bundestag (1998-2002) · 3 more...				[sources]
Education	Pfarrer, Außenminister a. D.				[sources]
Religion	evangelisch				[sources]
Last change	2026-01-07	Last processed	2026-01-16	First seen	2019-05-21

Descriptions

German theologian and politician

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

Relationships

Positions held
Position occupied	Start date	End date
member of the German Bundestag	2005-10-18	2009-10-27

Data sources

Germany Members of the Bundestag1,825

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

Germany · German Bundestag

Wikidata Persons in Relevant Categories384,016

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

Global · Wikidata · non-official source

MySociety's EveryPolitician Dataset of National Legislators57,728

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

Global · MySociety · non-official source

External databases

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

Wikidata335,220

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 OpenSanctions540,372

Entity categorisation decisions by the OpenSanctions team.

External dataset · OpenSanctions · non-official source

Source data IDs: de-btg-mdb-11001451 · evpo-ab835559-ef9c-4ead-bfa4-002ae60c42fa

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