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Mariana Harder-Kühnel

German politician (born 1974)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionApr 23, 2026
Entity authorityQ40472081 ↗
Source-derived summary

Mariana Harder-Kühnel (born 16 August 1974) is a German politician of the Alternative for Germany (AfD) party. Since October 2017, she has served as member of the Bundestag.

In November 2018, the AfD unsuccessfully nominated Harder-Kühnel for the vacant post of one of the Vice Presidents of the Bundestag.

Harder-Kühnel is married and has three children. She is a practicing Roman Catholic.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Mariana Harder-Kühnel” is german politician (born 1974). The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Mariana, Harder-Kühnel and German, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewStrongest as a route into the people, institutions and dated events that shaped the subject’s public record. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1974, 2017, 2018—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1974-08-16. For this dossier, Mariana, Harder-Kühnel and German is the immediate research focus.
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Why this record matters

The phrase “german politician (born 1974)” supplies a clear boundary for inquiry. It also exposes the unanswered questions: who defined that boundary, when it became stable and which sources sit outside it.

Evidence profile

The entry’s evidential value lies in the named roles, institutions and publications that can be tested against primary documentation. The source revision retrieved here is dated Apr 23, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q40472081. VIAF identifies the subject as 4055155466472102160005. 2 of 5 selected statements include explicit references; 3 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1974, 2017 and 2018.

Critical limits

A concise life account rarely captures disputed attribution, private networks or the changing language used to describe a career. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

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This entry incorporates text from “Mariana Harder-Kühnel” 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.