# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/erich-hess
# Generated: 2026-08-13T11:12:27.851Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/erich-hess"
name: "Erich Hess"
slug: "erich-hess"
description: "Erich Johann Hess is a Swiss businessman, truck driver and politician. Hess serves as a member of the National Council (Switzerland) for the Swiss People's Party since 2015. He served as councillor in the city council of Bern between 2005 and 2010 and is currently serving a second term. He is also a former member of the Grand Council of Bern between 2010 and 2016 and between 2018 and 2020, where he was a member on the audit and justice committees."
tagline: "Swiss politician"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Erich_Hess_(2023).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Switzerland"
  isoCode: "CH"
category:
  name: "Politicians"
  slug: "politicians"
profileType:
  name: "Politician"
  slug: "politician"
birthDate: "1981-03-25"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           44.6
  momentum:             7.880434782608698
  historical:           5.485926666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "X"
    url:       "https://x.com/Erich_Hess"
    handle:    "Erich_Hess"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "https://www.erichhess.ch/"
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erich_Hess_(politician)"
    title: "Erich Hess (politician)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%8A%D9%83_%D9%87%D8%B3"
    title: "اريك هس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erich_Hess_(Politiker)"
    title: "Erich Hess (Politiker)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikiquote.org/wiki/Erich_Hess"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erich_Hess"
    title: "Erich Hess"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erich_Hess"
    title: "Erich Hess"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q121862"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump