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Tobias Reynaers

Dutch politician

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionApr 18, 2026
Entity authorityQ2683414 ↗
Source-derived summary

T.P.A.M. "Tobias" Reynaers (born 23 May 1982) is a former Dutch politician.

Reynaers was a member of the Senate for the Party for Freedom (PVV) between 7 June 2011 and 9 June 2015. He was also a member of the Benelux Parliament. Previously, he was a municipal councillor in Roosendaal for a local party between 2010 and 2011.

Reynaers studied law at Tilburg University between 2000 and 2006. Since 2006 he has been working as a lawyer in Roosendaal.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Tobias Reynaers” as dutch politician. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA productive starting point for separating a subject’s documented career from later reputation and commemoration. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1982, 2011, 2015, 2010—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1982-05-23. The account is most persuasive where Tobias, Reynaers and Dutch can be independently traced.
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Why this record matters

The subject matters to the people & ideas register because the source frames it as dutch politician. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

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 18, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q2683414. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1982, 2011, 2015 and 2010.

Critical limits

A concise life account rarely captures disputed attribution, private networks or the changing language used to describe a career. The source lead contains qualifying language; that uncertainty should survive quotation, summary and reuse. 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 “Tobias Reynaers” 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.