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Urs Schweizer

Politician

Urs Schweizer 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 Schweizer				[sources]
Alias	Schweizer, Urs				[sources]
Birth date	1952-06-27				[sources]
Place of birth	Bâle				[sources]
Gender	male				[sources]
Nationality	Switzerland				[sources]
Country	Switzerland				[sources]
Citizenship	Switzerland				[sources]
Classification	National government (past)				[sources]
First name	Urs				[sources]
Last name	Schweizer				[sources]
Spoken language	German				[sources]
Title	Conseiller national				[sources]
Wikidata ID	Q65498609				[sources]
Position	National Council (member, 2003-2007) · substitute member of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (2007-2008)				[sources]
Religion	Schweizer				[sources]
Address	Bâle · Bâle-Ville				[sources]
Last change	2026-01-18	Last processed	2026-01-18	First seen	2019-05-21

Descriptions

Präsident FDP Kleinbasel (Ortspartei) vom April 1987 - Mai 1997; Präsident FDP Basel-Stadt (Kantonalpartei) vom August 1997 - 31. März 2006; Legislative der Gemeinde ab Juni 1999; Legislative des Kantons ab Februar 2004

— Swiss Federal Assembly, 2025-10-13

politicus uit Zwitserland

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

Relationships

Positions held
Position occupied	Start date	End date
Conseil national	2006-12-11	2007-12-02

Data sources

Swiss Federal Assembly898

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

Switzerland · Parliamentary Services of the Federal Assembly

MySociety's EveryPolitician Dataset of National Legislators40,660

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

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Wikidata334,490

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External dataset · Global · Wikidata · non-official source

PEP position annotations by OpenSanctions525,938

Entity categorisation decisions by the OpenSanctions team.

External dataset · OpenSanctions · non-official source

Source data IDs: evpo-52b529e2-42e0-407b-ae03-370bb71e0b69 · ch-parl-councillor-1344

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