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Lukas Mezger

German lawyer and Wikimedian; from 2018 to 2022 president of the board of Wikimedia Deutschland
Person human Q59339887

Facts

20 properties
Instance of
human
Sex or gender
male[10]
Date of birth
1986
Country of citizenship
Germany[4]
Occupation
lawyer, Wikimedian
Employer
Wikimedia Foundation
Field of work
media law, information technology law[5][6]
Position held
chairperson
Educated at
Kiel University
Sibling
Nikolaus Mezger[27]
Doctoral advisor
Haimo Schack[7]
Work location
Hamburg[14]
Languages spoken, written or signed
English, German, French, Italian[23][24][25][26]
Academic degree
doctorate[11]
Family name
Mezger[12]
Given name
Lukas[13]
Instrument
clarinet[15]
Member of
WikiOrchestra, Wikipedia:WikiEulenOrchester[8][9]
Participant in
Wikimedia Conference 2016, Wikimedia Conference 2017, Wikimedia Conference 2018, Wikipedia:WikiCon 2024, Wikimania 2024, Wikimedia Summit 2019, itWikiCon 2018[16][17][18][19][20][21][22]
Social media followers
224 (221–1.1k, n=4)[28][29][30][31]
🏷️ Also known as
en Lukas Mezger ar لوكاس ميزجر hu Mezger Lukas ja ルーカス・メッツガー uk Лукас Мецґер
🔖 Identifiers · 14
VIAF cluster ID
8239149198272974940006
Library of Congress authority ID
no2017088551
GND ID
1129462420
Image (Wikimedia Commons)
Lukas Mezger Photo Gitta Wilén CC BY-SA 4.0.png ↗
DDB person (GND) ID
1129462420
Facebook username
lukas.mezger
Goodreads author ID
16189544
Google Knowledge Graph ID
/g/11fhw1k96d
Instagram username
nicholascarraway
Mastodon address
lukasmezger@social.tchncs.de
Open Library ID
OL10150684A
Threads username
nicholascarraway
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WorldCat Entities ID
E39PBJqW3DHxkHMHMchg3dgtKd
X (Twitter) username
lukasmezger

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Summary

Lukas Mezger was born in 1986[1]. He has worked as a lawyer[2] and Wikimedian[3].

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What did Lukas Mezger do for work?

Lukas Mezger worked as a lawyer[2] and Wikimedian[3].

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  1. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  5. [2] ↑ . Integrated Authority File. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
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  11. [1] ↑ . Integrated Authority File. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
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  23. [23] ↑ . de.wikipedia.org. Retrieved . de.wikipedia.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  24. [24] ↑ . de.wikipedia.org. Retrieved . de.wikipedia.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  25. [25] ↑ . de.wikipedia.org. Retrieved . de.wikipedia.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  26. [26] ↑ . de.wikipedia.org. Retrieved . de.wikipedia.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  27. [27] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  28. [28] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  29. [29] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  30. [30] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  31. [31] ↑ . wikidata.org.

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  1. 15w ago · ~2026-41619-55 · 2026-07-25 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Position held → chairperson
    Participant in → Wikimedia Conference 2016, Wikimedia Conference 2017, Wikimedia Conference 2018 +4
    "/* wbremoveclaims-remove:1| */ Position held: Wikimedian"
  2. 24w ago · P858snake · 2026-05-23 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Participant in → Wikimedia Conference 2016, Wikimedia Conference 2017, Wikimedia Conference 2018 +4
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ Participant in: Wikipedia:WikiCon 2024, #quickstatements; #temporary_batch_1779509619641"
  3. 25w ago · P858snake · 2026-05-10 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Participant in → Wikimedia Conference 2016, Wikimedia Conference 2017, Wikimedia Conference 2018 +4
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ Participant in: Wikimedia Conference 2016, #quickstatements; #temporary_batch_1778402336136"
  4. 26w ago · Epìdosis · 2026-05-08 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Date of birth → +1986-01-01T00:00:00Z
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