# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/paul-rechsteiner
# Generated: 2026-08-14T16:46:02.473Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/paul-rechsteiner"
name: "Paul Rechsteiner"
slug: "paul-rechsteiner"
description: "Paul Rechsteiner is a Swiss attorney, union leader and former politician. He served as a member of the National Council (Switzerland) from 1986 to 2011 and from 2011 to 2022 as a member of the Council of States (Switzerland) for the Social Democratic Party for the St. Gallen constituency. Between 1998 and 2018 he was the president of the Swiss Trade Union Federation (SGB). He was among the most influential Swiss politicians."
tagline: "Swiss politician"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Paul_Rechsteiner_(2019).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Switzerland"
  isoCode: "CH"
category:
  name: "Politicians"
  slug: "politicians"
profileType:
  name: "Politician"
  slug: "politician"
birthDate: "1952-08-26"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           41.61
  momentum:             3.933964442392057
  historical:           4.811124
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "https://www.paulrechsteiner.ch/"
sources:
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%BE%D9%88%D9%84_%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%AA%D8%B4%D8%B3%D8%AA%D9%8A%D9%86%D9%8A%D8%B1"
    title: "پول ريتشستينير"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Rechsteiner"
    title: "Paul Rechsteiner"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Rechsteiner"
    title: "Paul Rechsteiner"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Rechsteiner"
    title: "Paul Rechsteiner"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Rechsteiner"
    title: "Paul Rechsteiner"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q119440"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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