1938 in Switzerland

← 1937 1936 1935 1938 in Switzerland → 1939 1940 1941
Decades:	1910s 1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s
See also:	History of Switzerland Timeline of Swiss history List of years in Switzerland

Events during the year 1938 in Switzerland.

Incumbents

• Federal Council: ^[1]
  • Johannes Baumann (president) ^[2]
  • Giuseppe Motta
  • Hermann Obrecht
  • Philipp Etter
  • Marcel Pilet-Golaz
  • Albert Meyer (until December), then Ernst Wetter
  • Rudolf Minger

Events

• The 1938 European Figure Skating Championships take place in St. Moritz. ^[3]

Births

• 11 February – Edith Mathis, operatic soprano (d. 2025) ^[4]
• 27 March – Hansjörg Schneider, novelist ^[5]
• 2 August – Yvonne Rüegg, alpine skier ^[6]
• 4 October – Kurt Wüthrich, chemist ^[7]

Deaths

• 13 May – Charles Édouard Guillaume, physicist (born 1861) ^[8]
• 15 June – Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, German painter (born 1880 in Germany) ^[9]

References

1. "All federal councillors since 1848". www.admin.ch. Retrieved 22 January 2024.
2. "Presidents of the Confederation". www.admin.ch. Retrieved 22 January 2024.
3. "Olympedia – Olympians Who Won a Medal at the European Figure Skating Championships". www.olympedia.org. Retrieved 31 January 2024.
4. Soprano Edith Mathis
5. Hansjörg Schneider
6. "Olympedia – Yvonne Rüegg". www.olympedia.org. Retrieved 7 February 2024.
7. "The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2002". NobelPrize.org. Retrieved 31 January 2024.
8. "The Nobel Prize in Physics 1920". NobelPrize.org. Retrieved 6 February 2024.
9. Kirchner, Ernst Ludwig. Oxford University Press. January 2004. ISBN   978-0-19-860476-1 . Retrieved 26 February 2024.{{cite book}}: |website= ignored (help)