Basel, also known as Basle, is a city in northwestern Switzerland on the River Rhine. Basel is Switzerland's third-most-populous city, with 177,595 inhabitants within the city municipality limits. The official language of Basel is Swiss Standard German and the main spoken language is the local Basel German dialect.
Ulrich Ochsenbein was a Swiss, jurist, military officer, politician and member of the Swiss Federal Council (1848–1854).
The University of Basel is a public research university in Basel, Switzerland. Founded on 4 April 1460, it is Switzerland's oldest university and among the world's oldest surviving universities. The university is traditionally counted among the leading institutions of higher learning in the country.
Eric Michael Weber is a Swiss populist publisher, journalist, and far-right politician. He currently serves his third term as a member of the Grand Council of Basel-Stadt for his independent VA, which is his own political movement without any other members.
Sibel Arslan is a Turkish-born Swiss lawyer and politician who currently serves on the National Council (Switzerland) for the movement BastA!. There she concurrently also is a representative to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe since 2020. She previously served on the Grand Council of Basel-Stadt between 2005 and 2016.
Von der Mühll or Von der Mühl is a Swiss patrician and noble family.
Conradin Cramer is a Swiss politician. He has been a member of the cantonal government of Basel-Stadt since 8 February 2017.
Mustafa Atici is a Turkish-born Swiss businessman and politician who currently serves as member of the Executive Council of Basel-Stadt since 2024 for the Social Democratic Party. He previously served on the National Council (Switzerland) from 2019 to 2023 and on the Grand Council of Basel-Stadt from 2005 to 2019.
Beat Jans is a Swiss environmental scientist and politician who serves as a member of the Federal Council, after being elected in 2023 to succeed Alain Berset, assuming office on 1 January 2024. A member of the Social Democratic Party, he previously served on the National Council from 2010 to 2020, and president of the Executive Council of Basel-Stadt from 2021 to 2023.
Anita Fetz is a Swiss politician of the Social Democratic Party of Switzerland (SP) and a former member of the National Council and the Council of States in Switzerland.
Carl Christoph Friedrich Bernoulli was a Swiss art dealer and interior designer from the Bernoulli family of scholars.
In the 1967 Basel Picasso paintings purchase referendum, the people of Basel, Switzerland, voted for the purchase of two paintings by Pablo Picasso, Les deux frères (1906) and Arlequin assis (1923). The referendum took place on 17 December 1967, and the "yes" campaign was supported by the youth of Basel and the local football club FC Basel, among others. Picasso was astonished by the fact that people would vote in favor to buy his art in a majority vote, and invited Franz Meyer, the director of the Kunstmuseum Basel, to see him at his atelier in Mougins, where he presented the "Youth of Basel" with four more of his works.
The Wocher Panorama, also known as the Thun Panorama, is a panoramic painting depicting the city of Thun. Created by the artist Marquard Wocher in 1814, it was the first panorama in Switzerland. It is on display at Schadau Castle and is owned by the Gottfried Keller Foundation. The painting is about 7.5m tall and 38m wide and is the oldest cyclorama in the world.
The following events occurred in Switzerland in the year 2023.
Peter Facklam was a Swiss politician. A member of the Liberal-Demokratische Partei, he served in the Executive Council of Basel-Stadt from 1980 to 1992.
Patricia Caroline Manuela von Falkenstein is a Swiss jurist, judge, politician, who currently serves as a member of the National Council (Switzerland) for the Liberal-Democratic Party since 2021. She previously served as a member of the Grand Council of Basel-Stadt between 2006 and 2020.
Annina Elsa Maria von Falkenstein is a Swiss politician who currently serves on the Grand Council of Basel-Stadt for the Liberal-Democratic Party since 2021. Most notably, she was portrayed by SRF while attending EHL Hospitality Business School in Lausanne in 2017. She is a daughter of Christoph Eymann and Patricia von Falkenstein.
Anne Lévy is a Swiss manager and Director-General of the Federal Office of Public Health (FOPH) in Switzerland since 2020.
The Swiss Society of Economics and Statistics (SSES) is a Swiss learned society for economics and an association comprising all Swiss universities with faculties of economics, based in Zurich. Kurt Schmidheiny from the University of Basel serves as the current president of the SSES. The society is a member of the Swiss Academy of Humanities and Social Sciences. The SSES holds an ex officio position on the executive council of the Verein für Socialpolitik. The society publishes the Swiss Journal of Economics and Statistics, an open-access peer-reviewed academic journal.
Bernhard Christ is a Swiss lawyer, notary, politician and translator. Among other roles, he served as President of the Grand Council of the Canton of Basel-Stadt and was president of the Karl Barth foundation for 40 years. He is known for having translated and commented the Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri.
