This is a list of judges of the Federal Supreme Court of Switzerland.
Name | Term of office | Party | Notes |
---|---|---|---|
Michel Féraud | FDP/PRD | Division president | |
Heinz Aemisegger | CVP/PDC | ||
Arthur Aeschlimann | FDP/PRD | President of the Supreme Court, 2007 | |
Bertrand Reeb | LPS/PLS | ||
Jean Fonjallaz | SPS/PSS | ||
Ivo Eusebio | SVP/UDC |
Name | Term of office | Party | Notes |
---|---|---|---|
Thomas Merkli | GPS/PES | Division president | |
Adrian Hungerbühler | FDP/PRD | ||
Alain Wurzburger | FDP/PRD | ||
Robert Müller | CVP/PDC | ||
Danielle Yersin | SVP/UDC | ||
Peter Karlen | SVP/UDC |
Name | Term of office | Party | Notes |
---|---|---|---|
Bernard Corboz | FDP/PRD | Division president | |
Kathrin Klett | SPS/PSS | ||
Vera Rottenberg Liatowitsch | SPS/PSS | ||
Gilbert Kolly | CVP/PDC | ||
Christina Kiss | FDP/PRD |
Name | Term of office | Party | Notes |
---|---|---|---|
Niccolò Raselli | SPS/PSS | Division president | |
Ursula Nordmann-Zimmermann | SPS/PSS | ||
Elisabeth Escher | CVP/PDC | ||
Lorenz Meyer | SVP/UDC | ||
Fabienne Hohl | FDP/PRD | ||
Luca Marazzi | FDP/PRD |
Name | Term of office | Party | Notes |
---|---|---|---|
Roland Schneider | SVP/UDC | Division president | |
Hans Wiprächtiger | SPS/PSS | ||
Pierre Ferrari | FDP/PRD | ||
Dominique Favre | SPS/PSS | ||
Andreas Zünd | SPS/PSS | ||
Hans Mathys | SVP/UDC |
Name | Term of office | Party | Notes |
---|---|---|---|
Rudolf Ursprung | SVP/UDC | Division president | |
Ursula Widmer-Schmid | FDP/PRD | ||
Franz Schön | CVP/PDC | ||
Susanne Leuzinger-Naef | SPS/PSS | Vice president of the Supreme Court, 2007 | |
Jean-Maurice Frésard | SPS/PSS |
Name | Term of office | Party | Notes |
---|---|---|---|
Ulrich Meyer | SVP/UDC | Division president | |
Alois Lustenberger | CVP/PDC | ||
Aldo Borella | FDP/PRD | ||
Yves Kernen | SVP/UDC | ||
Hansjörg Seiler | SVP/UDC |
Name | From | To | Division | Canton | Party | Birth | Death |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Franz Kaspar Zenruffinen | 1848 | 1861 | VS | 1803 | 1861 | ||
Paul Migy | 1848 | 1852 | JU | 1814 | 1879 | ||
Johann Conrad Kern | 1848 | 1854 | TG | 1808 | 1888 | ||
Karl Johann Brenner | 1848 | 1851 | BS | FDP | 1814 | 1883 | |
Louis-Eugène Favre | 1848 | 1851 | NE | FDP | 1816 | 1861 | |
Johann Rudolf Brosi | 1848 | 1857 | GR | FDP | 1801 | 1877 | |
Kasimir Pfyffer | 1848 | 1863 | LU | LPS | 1794 | 1875 | |
Franz Jauch | 1848 | 1852 | UR | LPS | 1807 | 1867 | |
Johann Jakob Rüttimann | 1848 | 1854 | ZH | 1813 | 1876 | ||
Johann Jakob Blumer | 1848 | 1875 | GL | LPS | 1819 | 1875 | |
Jean Folly | 1848 | 1853 | FR | 1787 | 1867 | ||
Jean-Jaques Castoldi | 1851 | 1857 | GE | FDP | 1804 | 1871 | |
Johann Jakob Trog | 1851 | 1856 | SO | 1807 | 1867 | ||
Jakob Stämpfli | 1851 | 1854 | BE | 1820 | 1879 | ||
Johann Karl Kappeler | 1851 | 1857 | TG | 1816 | 1888 | ||
Nicolas Glasson | 1853 | 1864 | FR | 1817 | 1864 | ||
Nicolaus Hermann | 1853 | 1874 | OW | 1818 | 1888 | ||
Eduard Eugen Blösch | 1854 | 1866 | BE | CVP | 1807 | 1866 | |
Gottlieb Jäger | 1856 | 1874 | AG | FDP | 1805 | 1891 | |
Joseph Wilhelm Viktor Vigier | 1857 | 1874 | SO | FDP | 1823 | 1886 | |
Arnold Otto Aepli | 1857 | 1866 | SG | LPS | 1816 | 1897 | |
Philippe Camperio | 1857 | 1874 | GE | LPS | 1810 | 1882 | |
Henri (Joseph) Ducrey | 1862 | 1864 | VS | FDP | 1805 | 1864 | |
K. Eduard Häberlin | 1862 | 1872 | TG | 1820 | 1884 | ||
Jost Weber | 1863 | 1872 | LU | LPS | 1823 | 1889 | |
Alexis Allet | 1864 | 1872 | VS | FDP | 1820 | 1888 | |
Victor Ruffy | 1864 | 1867 | VD | 1823 | 1868 | ||
Carl Georg Jakob Sailer | 1866 | 1870 | SG | 1817 | 1870 | ||
Edouard Carlin | 1866 | 1870 | JU | FDP | 1817 | 1870 | |
Paul Ceresole | 1867 | 1870 | VD | LPS | 1832 | 1905 | |
Eugène Borel | 1870 | 1872 | NE | FDP | 1835 | 1892 | |
Josef Karl Pankraz Morel | 1870 | 1900 | SG | FDP | 1825 | 1900 | |
Josef Bühler | 1872 | 1873 | LU | LPS | 1837 | 1873 | |
Johann Messmer | 1872 | 1874 | C | TG | 1818 | 1880 | |
Heinrich (sr) Honegger | 1872 | 1874 | ZH | LPS | 1832 | 1889 | |
Jules Roguin | 1873 | 1890 | VD | LPS | 1823 | 1908 | |
Rudolf Niggeler | 1874 | 1879 | BE | FDP | 1845 | 1887 | |
Josef Bläsi | 1874 | 1903 | SO | FDP | 1833 | 1903 | |
Gustave Pictet | 1874 | 1876 | GE | DEM | 1827 | 1900 | |
Gaudenzio (Andrea) Olgiati | 1874 | 1892 | GR | 1836 | 1892 | ||
Fridolin Anderwert | 1874 | 1875 | TG | DEM | 1828 | 1880 | |
Johann Conrad Weber | 1875 | 1908 | C, Cs, CC | AG | FDP | 1839 | 1918 |
Heinrich Stamm | 1875 | 1905 | Cs, CC | SH | DEM | 1827 | 1905 |
Jakob Dubs | 1875 | 1879 | ZH | KKP | 1822 | 1879 | |
Jean Broye | 1876 | 1899 | Cs | FR | FDP | 1828 | 1899 |
Heinrich Hafner | 1879 | 1902 | C, CC | ZH | 1838 | 1902 | |
Alois Kopp | 1879 | 1891 | LU | KKP | 1827 | 1891 | |
Charles-Henri Soldan | 1890 | 1900 | C | VD | FDP | 1855 | 1900 |
Felix Clausen | 1891 | 1916 | Cs | VS | KKP | 1834 | 1916 |
Agostino Soldati | 1892 | 1936 | 2C | TI | KKP | 1857 | 1938 |
Auguste (Georges Adrien) Cornaz | 1893 | 1896 | Cs, CC | NE | FDP | 1834 | 1896 |
Emil Rott | 1893 | 1905 | C, CC | BE | FDP | 1852 | 1905 |
Karl Attenhofer | 1893 | 1906 | C | LU | KKP | 1836 | 1906 |
Andrea Bezzola | 1893 | 1897 | Cs | GR | FDP | 1840 | 1897 |
Johannes Winkler | 1893 | 1903 | C, Cs, CC | LU | LPS | 1845 | 1918 |
Hermann Lienhard | 1895 | 1905 | C, Cs | BE | FDP | 1851 | 1905 |
Frédéric Auguste Monnier | 1896 | 1921 | Cs | NE | FDP | 1847 | 1931 |
Jakob Huldreich Bachmann | 1896 | 1904 | C | TG | LPS | 1843 | 1915 |
Leo Weber | 1897 | 1901 | Cs | SO | FDP | 1841 | 1935 |
Emile Perrier | 1899 | 1924 | Cs | FR | KKP | 1848 | 1924 |
Georges Favey | 1900 | 1919 | C, 1C, CC | VD | LPS | 1847 | 1919 |
Carl Jäger | 1900 | 1937 | C, Cs, 2C | SG | 1869 | 1947 | |
Heinrich Honegger | 1901 | 1936 | 1C, 2C, CC | ZH | LPS | 1862 | 1940 |
Albert Ursprung | 1902 | 1935 | C, 1C, 2C | AG | 1862 | 1935 | |
Viktor Merz | 1903 | 1934 | Cs, C | BE | FDP | 1865 | 1940 |
Fritz Ostertag | 1903 | 1926 | C, 2C | BS | 1868 | 1948 | |
Franz Schmid | 1904 | 1923 | C, Cs, 1C | UR | KKP | 1841 | 1923 |
Albert Affolter | 1904 | 1930 | CsA, 1C | SO | FDP | 1856 | 1932 |
Emil Schurter | 1904 | 1921 | Cs | ZH | KKP | 1864 | 1921 |
Rudolf Gallati | 1904 | 1904 | Cs | GL | FDP | 1845 | 1904 |
Ernest Picot | 1904 | 1921 | C, Cs, 1C, CC | GE | FDP | 1853 | 1921 |
Alfred Stooss | 1905 | 1925 | C, CC, 1C, 2C | BE | FDP | 1860 | 1925 |
Alexander Reichel | 1905 | 1920 | C, Cs | BE | SPS | 1853 | 1921 |
Adam Hans Gysin | 1905 | 1909 | Cs | BL | 1852 | 1909 | |
Vincent Gottofrey | 1906 | 1919 | Cs, C, CC | FR | KKP | 1862 | 1919 |
Theodor Weiss | 1908 | 1936 | 1C, CC | ZH | 1868 | 1936 | |
Emil Kirchhofer | 1909 | 1942 | Cs, 1C | SH | 1871 | 1944 | |
Hans Müri | 1912 | 1933 | CsA | AG | FDP | 1861 | 1944 |
Henri Thelin | 1912 | 1934 | 1C, 2C, CC | VD | FDP | 1867 | 1963 |
Victor Hauser | 1912 | 1924 | 2C | ZH | FDP | 1867 | 1924 |
Virgile Rossel | 1912 | 1932 | 2C, CC | BE | FDP | 1858 | 1933 |
Hugo Oser | 1912 | 1930 | 1C, 2C | BL | 1863 | 1930 | |
Arthur (Joseph-Marie) Couchepin | 1916 | 1936 | Cs, CC | VS | FDP | 1869 | 1941 |
Eugène Deschenaux | 1919 | 1922 | 1C | FR | KKP | 1874 | 1940 |
Paul Rambert | 1919 | 1932 | 1C, 2C | VD | LPS | 1866 | 1932 |
Karl Zgraggen | 1920 | 1929 | CsA, CC | UR | 1861 | 1929 | |
Robert Fazy | 1921 | 1942 | Cs, CC, 1C | GE | LPS | 1872 | 1956 |
Josef Jakob Strebel | 1921 | 1954 | 1C, 2C | AG | KKP | 1887 | 1965 |
Léon Robert | 1921 | 1942 | 1C, CC | NE | FDP | 1873 | 1944 |
Evaristo Garbani-Nerini | 1922 | 1925 | 1C | TI | FDP | 1867 | 1944 |
Karl Adolf Brodtbeck | 1924 | 1932 | 2C | BL | SPS | 1866 | 1932 |
Johann Engeler | 1924 | 1936 | 1C, CC | SG | KKP | 1864 | 1949 |
Hans Steiner | 1924 | 1951 | CsA | SZ | KKP | 1884 | 1964 |
Georg Leuch | 1925 | 1954 | 1C | BE | SVP | 1888 | 1959 |
Plinio Bolla | 1925 | 1950 | 1C, 2C | TI | FDP | 1896 | 1963 |
Joseph Piller | 1926 | 1933 | Cs, 2C | FR | KKP | 1890 | 1954 |
Jakob Hablützel | 1928 | 1950 | 2C | ZH | BGB | 1885 | 1959 |
Eugen Blocher | 1928 | 1952 | CsA | BS | SPS | 1882 | 1964 |
Camille Guggenheim | 1929 | 1930 | Cs | AG | SPS | 1894 | 1930 |
Hans Affolter | 1930 | 1936 | Cs | SO | SPS | 1870 | 1936 |
Adrian von Arx | 1930 | 1934 | CsA | SO | FDP | 1879 | 1934 |
Josef Andermatt | 1930 | 1942 | 1C | ZG | KKP | 1871 | 1942 |
Hartmann Friedrich Studer | 1932 | 1942 | 2C | ZH | SPS | 1873 | 1945 |
Jean Rossel | 1932 | 1942 | 2C | BE | FDP | 1884 | 1944 |
Robert Guex | 1932 | 1948 | 2C | VD | LPS | 1881 | 1948 |
Walter Nägeli | 1933 | 1952 | Cs | ZH | FDP | 1881 | 1965 |
Louis Python | 1933 | 1963 | CsA | FR | KKP | 1893 | 1992 |
Hans Huber | 1934 | 1946 | Cs, CC | TG | FDP | 1901 | 1987 |
Paul Kasser | 1934 | 1945 | BE | 1876 | 1945 | ||
Robert Petitmermet | 1935 | 1956 | CsA, 2C, CC | VD | FDP | 1886 | 1976 |
August Ernst | 1936 | 1950 | 2C | AG | 1880 | 1959 | |
Louis Couchepin | 1936 | 1952 | 1C | VS | FDP | 1896 | 1952 |
Wilhelm Stauffer | 1936 | 1959 | 1C | BE | SVP | 1893 | 1986 |
Eugen Hasler | 1936 | 1950 | 1C | ZH | 1884 | 1965 | |
Walter Leuenberger | 1937 | 1953 | 1C | BE | SPS | 1885 | 1964 |
Wilhelm Schönenberger | 1937 | 1964 | 1C | SG | KKP | 1898 | 1985 |
Carlo Pometta | 1937 | 1966 | 1C, 2C | TI | KKP | 1896 | 1979 |
Adolf Ziegler | 1938 | 1960 | 2C, CC | SO | FDP | 1890 | 1985 |
Franz Fässler | 1942 | 1969 | 1C, CC | AI | KKP | 1899 | 1986 |
Paul Logoz | 1942 | 1953 | CC | GE | 1888 | 1973 | |
Eduard Arnold | 1943 | 1962 | CC, CsA | LU | SPS | 1895 | 1977 |
Albert Comment | 1943 | 1964 | CsA, 2C | BE | FDP | 1894 | 1987 |
Fritz Häberlin | 1943 | 1969 | CsA | TG | FDP | 1899 | 1970 |
Albert Constant François Rais | 1943 | 1956 | 1C, CC | NE | FDP | 1888 | 1973 |
Kurt Rudolf Düby | 1946 | 1951 | CsA | ZH | SPS | 1900 | 1951 |
Theodor Abrecht | 1946 | 1964 | CsA | BE | SPS | 1894 | 1983 |
André Panchaud | 1948 | 1970 | CsA, 1C | VD | LPS | 1901 | 1976 |
Fernando Pedrini | 1950 | 1962 | CC | TI | FDP | 1898 | 1984 |
Gustav Muheim | 1951 | 1967 | CC | UR | KKP | 1897 | 1979 |
Hans Tschopp | 1951 | 1974 | CC, 1C | ZH | SPS | 1903 | 1990 |
Paul Corrodi | 1951 | 1963 | 2C, 1C | ZH | SVP | 1892 | 1964 |
Paul Schwartz | 1951 | 1972 | 2C, CC | BS | FDP | 1905 | 1977 |
Silvio Giovanoli | 1951 | 1972 | 1C, 2C | GR | FDP | 1902 | 1981 |
Antoine Favre | 1952 | 1967 | CsA | VS | KKP | 1897 | 1974 |
Fritz Bachtler | 1953 | 1962 | CC | SO | SPS | 1892 | 1971 |
Otto Deggeler | 1953 | 1967 | CsA | ZH | FDP | 1897 | 1981 |
Werner Stocker | 1953 | 1964 | 2C | AG | SPS | 1904 | 1964 |
René Perrin | 1953 | 1973 | CC | NE | SPS | 1910 | 1997 |
Karl Dannegger | 1954 | 1962 | 1C | BE | SVP | 1895 | 1980 |
Joseph Plattner | 1955 | 1965 | 2C | GR | KKP | 1902 | 1965 |
Pierre Cavin | 1957 | 1979 | 1C, 2C | VD | FDP | 1909 | 1992 |
André Grisel | 1957 | 1978 | CC, 2C, CsA | NE | FDP | 1911 | 1990 |
Emil Schmid | 1959 | 1974 | 2C, 1C | BE | SVP | 1908 | 1992 |
Kurt Schoch | 1961 | 1969 | CC, CsA, 2C | SH | FDP | 1904 | 1980 |
Paul Lemp | 1963 | 1978 | CC, 1C | BE | BGB | 1908 | 2001 |
Werner Dubach | 1963 | 1976 | CC, CsA | BE | SPS | 1905 | 1985 |
Eduard Jöhr | 1963 | 1976 | CC | AG | SVP | 1906 | 1991 |
Harald Huber | 1963 | 1981 | CsA, 2C, CC | ZH | SPS | 1912 | 1998 |
Rolando Forni | 1963 | 1994 | 2C | TI | FDP | 1925 | |
Jakob Heusser | 1964 | 1965 | 2C | ZH | SPS | 1901 | 1965 |
Jean Castella | 1964 | 1985 | 2C, 1C | FR | CVP | 1920 | 1995 |
Jean-Pierre Rüedi | 1965 | 1982 | 1C | BE | SPS | 1916 | 1998 |
Paul Reichlin | 1965 | 1972 | CsA | SZ | CVP | 1902 | 1990 |
Jean-Pierre Châtelain | 1965 | 1981 | 1C | BE | FDP | 1916 | 1995 |
Otto Konstantin Kaufmann | 1966 | 1984 | 2P | SG | CVP | 1914 | 1999 |
Walter Kämpfer | 1966 | 1980 | 2C, 2P | BE | SPS | 1914 | 1998 |
Fulvio Antognini | 1967 | 1996 | 1P | TI | CVP | 1926 | 2001 |
Erhard Schweri | 1968 | 1988 | 2C, CC | ZH | CVP | 1922 | |
Arthur Haefliger | 1968 | 1986 | 1P | SO | FDP | 1919 | 2011 |
Henri Fragnière | 1968 | 1982 | 1P | VS | CVP | 1915 | 1993 |
Adolf Lüchinger | 1969 | 1992 | 2C | ZH | SPS | 1928 | |
Alexandre Berenstein | 1970 | 1979 | 1P | GE | SPS | 1909 | 2000 |
Hans Dubs | 1970 | 1986 | 1P, CC | AG | FDP | 1923 | 2005 |
Raphael von Werra | 1970 | 1987 | CC | VS | CVP | 1926 | |
Max Stoffel | 1970 | 1981 | 1C | TG | CVP | 1911 | 2002 |
Henri Zwahlen | 1970 | 1974 | 1P | VD | LPS | 1911 | 1974 |
Rudolf Matter | 1973 | 1986 | 1P | SH | FDP | 1916 | |
Vital Schwander | 1973 | 1980 | CC | SZ | CVP | 1913 | 2005 |
Rolf Raschein | 1973 | 1992 | 1C, 2C | GR | FDP | 1929 | 1994 |
Jean-Jaques Leu | 1974 | 2001 | CC, 1C | VD | SPS | 1933 | |
Georg Messmer | 1975 | 1987 | 1C | ZH | SVP | 1921 | 1987 |
Margrith Bigler-Eggenberg | 1975 | 1994 | 2C | SG | SPS | 1933 | |
Robert Patry | 1975 | 1992 | 2P | GE | LPS | 1923 | |
Robert Levi | 1976 | 1987 | 1P | ZH | SPS | 1921 | 2002 |
Edwin Weyermann | 1976 | 2000 | CC, 1C, 2C | BE | SVP | 1932 | |
Carl Hans Brunschwiler | 1979 | 1993 | 2P | AG | CVP | 1927 | |
Jean-François Egli | 1979 | 1996 | 2P, 1C, 1P | NE | FDP | 1928 | |
Alfred Kuttler | 1979 | 1993 | 1P | BS | FDP | 1923 | |
André Florian Imer | 1979 | 1993 | 2P | BE | SVP | 1928 | |
Philippe Daniel Junod | 1980 | 1992 | CC, 2C | VD | FDP | 1928 | 1995 |
Albert Allemann-Reichle | 1980 | 1990 | 2P, CC | SO | SPS | 1923 | 2003 |
Claude Bernard Rouiller | 1980 | 1996 | 1P | VS | SPS | 1941 | |
Paul Moritz | 1981 | 1990 | CC | BE | FDP | 1923 | |
Herman Innozenz Schmidt | 1981 | 1995 | 2P, 1P | BS | SPS | 1930 | |
Alois Pfister | 1981 | 1986 | 2P | SZ | CVP | 1921 | |
Georges Scyboz | 1982 | 1996 | 1P, 2C | FR | CVP | 1927 | 2002 |
Heinz Hausheer | 1982 | 1990 | 2C | ZG | CVP | 1937 | |
Martin Schubarth | 1983 | 2004 | 1C, CC | BS | SPS | 1942 | |
Peter Alexander Müller | 1985 | 1998 | 2P, CC | VS | CVP | 1940 | |
Louis Bourgknecht | 1985 | 1998 | 1P, 1C | FR | CVP | 1931 | |
Karl Hartmann | 1986 | 2001 | 2P | UR | CVP | 1936 | |
Thomas Pfisterer | 1986 | 1991 | 1C, 1P | AG | FDP | 1941 | |
Heinrich Weibel | 1987 | 1999 | 1P, 1C, 2C | BL | FDP | 1932 | |
Hans Peter Walter | 1987 | 2004 | 1C | BE | FDP | 1944 | |
Karl Spühler | 1987 | 1995 | 1P, 2C | ZH | SVP | 1935 | |
Giusep Nay | 1988 | 2006 | 1P | GR | CVP | 1942 | |
Gerold Betschart | 1990 | 2006 | 2P | SZ | CVP | 1941 | |
Franz Nyffeler | 1995 | 2006 | 1C | AG | SVP | 1941 | |
Sergio Bianchi | 1995 | 2002 | 2C | TI | FDP | 1948 | |
Oliver Jacot-Guillarmod | 1996 | 2001 | 1P | NE | FDP | 1950 | 2001 |
Emilio Catenazzi | 1997 | 2003 | 1P | TI | CVP | 1938 |
This table uses the following abbreviations:
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