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German Legislators from AbgeordnetenWatch

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:
Total5,264
Searchable2,640
Targets2,623
Entity types:
People2,623
Positions17
Countries:
Germany2,640
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 (PEPs)
Information:www.abgeordnetenwatch.de
Source data:www.abgeordnetenwatch.de · JSON
Coverage:added · frequency: daily
Last processed:2025-01-19 19:55:02
Last change:

Bulk download

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 entities2.31 MB
names.txtTarget names text file40.43 KB
senzing.jsonSenzing entity format1.72 MB
targets.nested.jsonTargets as nested JSON3.34 MB
targets.simple.csvTargets as simplified CSV474.18 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
Sabine EnseleitPersonGermany
Philipp FernisPersonGermany
Christoph HöhPersonGermany
Barbara Becker-HornickelPersonGermany
Claus SchülkePersonGermany
Michael SchunckPersonGermany
Julia Kahle-HausmannPersonGermany
Ansgar MayrPersonGermany
Jörg MehldauPersonGermany
Dennis HausteinPersonGermany
Sonja LattwesenPersonGermany
Nina AndrieshenPersonGermany
Jörg ScheibePersonGermany
Dirk BeyerPersonGermany
Lucia SchanbacherPersonGermany
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