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List of members of the 18th Bundestag

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Source revisionSep 22, 2026
Entity authorityQ14945253 ↗
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This is a list of members of the 18th Bundestag – the lower house of parliament of the Federal Republic of Germany, whose members were in office from 22 October 2013 until 24 October 2017.

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This entry incorporates text from “List of members of the 18th Bundestag” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.