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Home > List of members of the Swiss Federal Council

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1 Table
2 Statistics/trivia
2.1 Political party of the councilors
2.2 Years in office
2.3 Age when elected
2.4 Age when resigning/dying in office
2.5 Years alive after resigning from office
2.6 Age
3 External link
The table below shows the members of the Swiss Federal Council or Federal Councilors (in German: Bundesräte, in French: conseillers fédéraux, in Italian: consiglieri federali) for any given year since instauration of the federal council (in German: Bundesrat, in French: conseil fédéral, in Italian: consiglio federale) from 1848 to present. If you are only interested in a chronological list of the members, you can view the page without the html-tags of the source.

1 Table

Decade First day in office1 Federal councilors
1848  16 November 1848
 Ulrich Ochsenbein2 Jonas Furrer Martin Josef Munzinger Daniel Henri Druey Friedrich Frey-Herosé Wilhelm Matthias Näff Stefano Franscini
1850s  


31 December 1854 Jakob Stämpfli


11 July 1855Events Births January 5 King Camp Gillette, inventor († 1932) January 21 John Moses Browning, inventor († 1926) January 28 William Seward Burroughs, inventor of the calculator († 1898) March 13 Percival Lowell, astronomer († 19 3 Constant FornerodConstant Fornerod ( May 30, 1819 November 27, 1899) was a Swiss politician. He was elected to the Federal Council of Switzerland on July 11, 1855, and handed over office on October 31, 1867. He was affiliated with the Free Democratic Party. During his tim


14 July 1855Events Births January 5 King Camp Gillette, inventor († 1932) January 21 John Moses Browning, inventor († 1926) January 28 William Seward Burroughs, inventor of the calculator († 1898) March 13 Percival Lowell, astronomer († 19 Melchior Josef Martin KnüselMelchior Josef Martin Knusel ( November 16, 1813 January 15, 1889) was a Swiss politician. He was elected to the Swiss Federal Council on July 14, 1855, and handed over office on December 31, 1875. He was affiliated with the Radicals. While in office he h


30 July 1857Events January 9 Earthquake at Fort Tejon, California with an estimated magnitude of 7. 9 February 16 The National Deaf Mute College (later renamed Gallaudet University) is established in Washington, DC becoming the first school for the advanced education Giovanni Battista Pioda


1860s  


30 July 1861 Jakob Dubs


31 December 1863 Karl Schenk


12 July 1864 Jean-Jacques Challet-Venel 2


31 December 1866 Emil Welti


31 October 1867 Victor Ruffy


1870s  


1 February 1870 Paul Cérésole


28 May 1872 Johann Jakob Scherer


31 December 1872 Eugène Borel


31 December 1875 3 4 Joachim Heer Numa Droz Fridolin Anderwert Bernhard Hammer


31 December 1878 4 Simeon Bavier


1880s  


3 March 1881 3 Antoine Louis John Ruchonnet


10 April 1883 Adolf Deucher


13 December 1888 Wilhelm Friedrich Hertenstein


1890s  


31 December 1890 Emil Frey


31 December 1891 Josef Zemp


31 December 1892 Adrien Lachenal


14 December 1893 Eugène Ruffy


16 August 1895 Eduard Müller Walter Hauser


31 March 1897 Ernst Brenner


14 December 1899 Marc-Emile Ruchet


1900s 31 December 1899 Robert Comtesse


11 December 1902 Ludwig Forrer


17 June 1908 Josef Anton Schobinger


1910s  


4 April 1911 Arthur Hoffmann


14 December 1911 Giuseppe Motta


12 March 1912 Louis Perrier


17 July 1912 Edmund Schulthess Camille Decoppet


12 June 1913 Felix-Louis Calonder


26 June 1917 Gustave Ador


31 December 1917 Robert Haab


11 December 1919 Karl Scheurer


31 December 1919 Ernest Chuard Jean-Marie Musy


1920s  


12 February 1920 Heinrich Häberlin


31 December 1928 Marcel Pilet-Golaz


12 December 1929 Rudolf Minger Albert Meyer


1930s  


30 April 1934 Johannes Baumann Philipp Etter


15 April 1935 Hermann Obrecht


31 December 1938 Ernst Wetter


1940s  


22 February 1940 Enrico Celio


31 July 1940


10 December 1940 Eduard von Steiger Walter Stampfli


31 December 1940 Karl Kobelt


31 December 1943 Ernst Nobs


31 December 1944 Max Petitpierre


31 December 1947 Rodolphe Rubattel


1950s  


15 October 1950 Josef Escher


13 December 1951 Markus Feldmann


31 December 1951 Max Weber


9 December 1954 Thomas Holenstein


31 December 1954 Hans Streuli Paul Chaudet Giuseppe Lepori


11 December 1958 Friedrich Traugott Wahlen


1960s 31 December 1959 5 Willy Spühler Hans-Peter Tschudi Ludwig von Moos Jean Bourgknecht


30 June 1961 Hans Schaffner


30 September 1962 Roger Bonvin


31 December 1965 Rudolf Gnägi


31 December 1966 Nello Celio


1970s 31 December 1969 Ernst Brugger


31 January 1970 Pierre Graber


31 December 1971 Kurt Furgler


1 December 1973 Willy Ritschard


31 December 1973 Georges-André Chevallaz Hans Hürlimann


31 January 1978 Pierre Aubert Fritz Honegger


1980s 31 December 1979 Leon Schlumpf


31 December 1982 Rudolf Friedrich Alphons Egli


7 December 1983 Otto Stich


31 December 1983 Jean-Pascal Delamuraz


20 October 1984 Elisabeth Kopp


31 December 1986 Arnold Koller Flavio Cotti


31 December 1987 Adolf Ogi René Felber


12 January 1989 Kaspar Villiger
1990s 31 December 1989


31 March 1993 3 Ruth Dreifuss



31 October 1995 Moritz Leuenberger



30 March 1998 Pascal Couchepin


30 April 1999 Ruth Metzler-Arnold 2


Joseph Deiss



2000s  



31 December 2000 Samuel Schmid



31 December 2002 Micheline Calmy-Rey



31 December 20036


Christoph Blocher


Hans-Rudolf Merz


Notes:
1Members are elected by federal parliament for a four year term and traditionally re-elected. If the predecessor died in office, date of election, otherwise - if available - first day in office.
2Not reelected ( Jean-Jacques Challet-Venel, Ulrich Ochsenbein, Ruth Metzler-Arnold)
3The office was previously declined by the first person elected: 11.7.1855 Johann Stehlin (1803-1879) BS; 18.12.1875 Charles Estoppey (1820-1888) VD; 10.12.1875 Antoine Louis John Ruchonnet (1834-1893) VD, accepted later; 22.2.1881 Karl Hoffmann (1820-1895) SG; 03.03.1993 Francis Matthey (1942-2002) NE.
4Exceptionally low representation of the French and Italian speaking cantons, compared to the German speaking ones (1:6). In recent years, those are overrepresented 3:4 (proportional to their population).
5Since 1959: Magic formula (Zauberformel) of party composition (proportional to parties in federal parliament): FDP/PRD 2, CVP/PDC 2, SPS/PSS 2, SVP/UDC 1.
6Change to magic formula of party composition (again proportional to parties in federal parliament): FDP/PRD 2, SPS/PSS 2, SVP/UDC 2, CVP/PDC 1.



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