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Peter Jahr

Politician

Peter Jahr 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	Peter Jahr · Петер Яр · پيتير چاهر				[sources]
Alias	Dieter Peter Jahr · Jahr!				[sources]
Birth date	1959-04-24				[sources]
Place of birth	Burgstädt				[sources]
Gender	male				[sources]
Nationality	Germany				[sources]
Country	Germany · European Union				[sources]
Citizenship	Germany				[sources]
Classification	International organization (past) · National government (past)				[sources]
First name	Peter				[sources]
Last name	Jahr				[sources]
Political association	CDU				[sources]
Website	www.peter-jahr.de · facebook.com · twitter.com				[sources]
Wikidata ID	Q88213				[sources]
Position	Bundestag (member, 2005-2009) · Member of the European Parliament (2009-2014) · Member of the European Parliament (2014-2019) · Member of the European Parliament (2019-) · Member of the Landtag of Saxony (1990-1994) · 4 more...				[sources]
Education	Dipl.-Landwirt · Leipzig University				[sources]
Religion	evangelisch-lutherisch				[sources]
Last change	2025-10-13	Last processed	2025-11-20	First seen	2019-05-21

Descriptions

German politician and Member of the Saxonian Landtag, the German Bundestag and the European Parliament

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

Relationships

Positions held
Position occupied	Start date	End date
member of the German Bundestag	2005-10-18	2009-07-13
member of the German Bundestag	2005-10-18

Data sources

Wikidata Politically Exposed Persons277,144

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Global · Wikidata · non-official source

Every Politician57,742

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Global · MySociety · non-official source

Germany Members of the Bundestag1,827

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

Germany · German Bundestag

Wikidata Persons in Relevant Categories381,011

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Global · Wikidata · non-official source

External databases

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Wikidata353,686

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External dataset · Global · Wikidata · non-official source

PEP position annotations by OpenSanctions552,185

Entity categorisation decisions by the OpenSanctions team.

External dataset · OpenSanctions · non-official source

Source data IDs: evpo-0766b09c-0786-4f7e-bbd4-8f4ed55b9276 · eu-meps-96772 · de-btg-mdb-11003560

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