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Bernd Buchholz

Politician

Bernd Buchholz 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	Bernd Buchholz · Bernd Klaus Buchholz · بيرند بوتشهولز				[sources]
Other name	Bernd Klaus Buchholz				[sources]
Birth date	1961-11-02				[sources]
Place of birth	Berlin				[sources]
Gender	male				[sources]
Nationality	Germany				[sources]
Country	Germany				[sources]
Citizenship	Germany				[sources]
Classification	National government (unknown status) · State government (current)				[sources]
First name	Bernd				[sources]
Last name	Buchholz				[sources]
Wikidata ID	Q823715				[sources]
Position	Bundestag (member, 2017-) · Member of the Bundesrat of Germany (2017-2022) · Minister für Wirtschaft, Verkehr, Arbeit, Technologie und Tourismus des Landes Schleswig-Holstein (2017-) · member of the German Bundestag (2017-2017) · member of the Landtag of Schleswig-Holstein (1992-1996)				[sources]
Education	Doctor of Laws (1990-)				[sources]
Religion	Protestantism				[sources]
Source link	www.abgeordnetenwatch.de				[sources]
Last change	2025-10-30	Last processed	2025-11-11	First seen	2019-05-21

Descriptions

German politician

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

Relationships

Positions held
Position occupied	Start date	End date
member of the Landtag of Schleswig-Holstein	2022-05-16	2027-05-30
member of the German Bundestag

Data sources

German Legislators from AbgeordnetenWatch2,536

Members of the German national legislature (The Bundestag) and state legislatures (Landstag).

Germany · Parlamentwatch e.V. · non-official source

Every Politician57,893

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

Global · MySociety · non-official source

Wikidata Politically Exposed Persons276,153

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

Global · Wikidata · non-official source

Wikidata Persons in Relevant Categories361,573

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

Global · Wikidata · non-official source

External databases

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PEP position annotations by OpenSanctions551,775

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External dataset · OpenSanctions · non-official source

Wikidata335,470

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External dataset · Global · Wikidata · non-official source

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