German Legislators from AbgeordnetenWatch

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

Members of the German national legislature (The Bundestag) and state legislatures (Landstag) and the positions they occupy in the legislature, provided by the Abgeordenetenwatch API.

Data released under CC0 1.0 license.

Data overview

Entities:
Total4,854
Searchable2,434
Targets2,418
Entity types:
People2,418
Positions16
Countries:
Germany2,434
Publisher:Parlamentwatch e.V. · Germany non-official source

On abgeordnetenwatch.de (which translates as “member of parliament watch”) users can find all politicial representatives and ask them questions, read investigative research and support their demands towards politics for more transparency.

Collections:in OpenSanctions Default · Politically Exposed Persons Datasets
Information:www.abgeordnetenwatch.de
Source data:www.abgeordnetenwatch.de · JSON
Tags:list.pep
Coverage:added · frequency: daily
Last processed:2026-03-19 19:55:01 · v. 20260319195501-maj
Last change:

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Downloads contain the full set of entities contained in this dataset. You can fetch a simplified tabular form, or detailed, structured data in JSON format. Updated files will be provided once a day at the same location.

File nameExport typeSize
entities.ftm.jsonFollowTheMoney entities2.26 MB
names.txtTarget names text file37.19 KB
senzing.jsonSenzing entity format1.58 MB
targets.nested.jsonTargets as nested JSON3.22 MB
targets.simple.csvTargets as simplified CSV444.74 KB

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Using the API

You can query the data in this dataset via the application programming interface (API) endpoints below. Please read the introduction for documentation and terms of service.

Use the Reconciliation API in OpenRefine:
For full-text search, use the /search endpoint:
For entity matching, use the /match endpoint:

Recent additions

The following targeted entities have been added to this data source most recently:

AddedNameTypeCountries
Noah BöhringerPersonGermany
Claudia EngelmannPersonGermany
Sebastian BonauPersonGermany
Marco HeidePersonGermany
Timo P. GrosPersonGermany
Oliver StegertPersonGermany
Eric ReckePersonGermany
Heiko GehringPersonGermany
Ina DürrPersonGermany
Regina KittlerPersonGermany
Andrea KötterPersonGermany
Andrea RehPersonGermany
Ralf NettelstrothPersonGermany
Wilhelm HausmannPersonGermany
Anette BunsePersonGermany
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