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Roland Claus

Politician

Roland Claus 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	Roland Claus · رولاند كلوز · ローラント・クラウス				[sources]
Alias	Claus, Roland · Rolandus Claus · رولاند كلوز · ローラント・クラウス				[sources]
Birth date	1954-12-18				[sources]
Place of birth	Hettstedt				[sources]
Gender	male				[sources]
Nationality	Germany				[sources]
Country	Germany				[sources]
Citizenship	East Germany · Germany				[sources]
Classification	National government (past)				[sources]
First name	Roland				[sources]
Last name	Claus				[sources]
Political association	DIE LINKE. · Die Linke · Party of Democratic Socialism · Socialist Unity Party of Germany				[sources]
Website	www.rolandclaus.de				[sources]
Wikidata ID	Q95812				[sources]
Position	Bundestag (member, 2005-2009) · Bundestag (member, 2009-2013) · Bundestag (member, 2013-2017) · member of the German Bundestag (1998-2002) · member of the German Bundestag (2005-2009) · 3 more...				[sources]
Education	Dipl.-Ingenieurökonom · Merseburg University of Applied Sciences				[sources]
Religion	konfessionslos				[sources]
Last change	2025-12-20	Last processed	2025-12-20	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 German Bundestag	2013-10-22	2017-10-24

Data sources

MySociety's EveryPolitician Dataset of National Legislators57,731

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 Persons in Relevant Categories384,631

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

Global · Wikidata · non-official source

Germany Members of the Bundestag1,825

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

Germany · German Bundestag

External databases

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Wikidata355,584

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External dataset · Global · Wikidata · non-official source

PEP position annotations by OpenSanctions552,331

Entity categorisation decisions by the OpenSanctions team.

External dataset · OpenSanctions · non-official source

Source data IDs: evpo-17623b22-2e32-4bad-98c3-64eea527a6de · de-btg-mdb-11003065

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