Search OpenSanctions

Sahra Wagenknecht

Politician

Sahra Wagenknecht 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	Sahra Wagenknecht · Sahra Wagenknechtová · Sara Vagenkneht · Σάρα Βάγκενκνεχτ · Сара Вагенкнехт · 10 more...				[sources]
Other name	Sahra Wagenknecht Niemeyer · Sahra Wagenknecht-Niemeyer · Sahra Wagenknechtová · Sara Wagenknecht · Sarah Wagenknecht · 10 more...				[sources]
Weak alias	Wagenknecht · 瓦根克内希特 · 萨赫拉·瓦根克内希特				[sources]
Birth date	1969-07-16				[sources]
Place of birth	Jena				[sources]
Gender	female				[sources]
Nationality	Germany				[sources]
Country	Germany · European Union				[sources]
Citizenship	East Germany · Germany				[sources]
Classification	International organization (past) · National government (past)				[sources]
First name	Sahra				[sources]
Last name	Wagenknecht				[sources]
Website	www.sahra-wagenknecht.de · facebook.com · sahra-wagenknecht.de · twitter.com · www.sahra-wagenknecht.de				[sources]
Wikidata ID	Q77193				[sources]
Position	Bundestag (member, 2009-2013) · Bundestag (member, 2013-2017) · Bundestag (member, 2017-) · Member of the European Parliament (2004-2009) · member of the German Bundestag (2009-2013) · 3 more...				[sources]
Education	Chemnitz University of Technology · Doctor of Political Science · Friedrich Schiller University Jena · Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin · University of Groningen				[sources]
Religion	atheism				[sources]
Last change	2025-09-16	Last processed	2025-10-02	First seen	2019-05-21

Descriptions

German politician (born 1969)

— Wikidata non-official source, 2024-02-03

Relationships

Family members
Relative	Relationship	Start date	End date
Oskar Lafontaine Politician	spouse	2014-12-22	-

Positions held
Position occupied	Start date	End date
Member of the European Parliament	2004-07-20	2009-07-13

Data sources

Wikidata Persons in Relevant Categories375,919

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

Wikidata · non-official source

Every Politician58,326

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

MySociety · non-official source

Wikidata Politically Exposed Persons274,082

Profiles of politically exposed persons from Wikidata, the structured data version of Wikipedia.

Wikidata · non-official source

External databases

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

PEP position annotations by OpenSanctions546,399

Entity categorisation decisions by the OpenSanctions team.

External dataset · OpenSanctions · non-official source

Wikidata349,411

Wikidata is the structured data project of the Wikipedia community, providing fact-based information edited by humans and machines

External dataset · Wikidata · non-official source

Source data IDs: evpo-54622059-914e-4921-9b55-4ad912241279

For experts: raw data explorer

Factsheet Descriptions Data sources

OpenSanctions is free for non-commercial users. Businesses must acquire a data license to use the dataset.

Use the API License in bulk