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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				[sources]
Religion	Schweizer				[sources]
Address	Bâle · Bâle-Ville				[sources]
Last change	2025-12-01	Last processed	2025-12-01	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 Assembly901

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Switzerland · Parliamentary Services of the Federal Assembly

Every Politician57,742

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Global · MySociety · non-official source

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Wikidata386,955

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External dataset · Global · Wikidata · non-official source

PEP position annotations by OpenSanctions515,613

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External dataset · OpenSanctions · non-official source

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

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