1935 in Switzerland explained

The following is a list of events, births, and deaths in 1935 in Switzerland.

Incumbents

• Federal Council

^[1]

• • • • Giuseppe Motta Edmund Schulthess then Hermann Obrecht
  • Philipp Etter
  • Johannes Baumann
    • • Marcel Pilet-Golaz Albert Meyer
  • Rudolf Minger (President)^[2]

Events

• 23-26 January – The 1935 European Figure Skating Championships take place in St. Moritz.^[3]
• 1934-35 Nationalliga
• 1935 European Figure Skating Championships
• FIS Alpine World Ski Championships 1935
• 1935 Swiss Grand Prix
• 1935 World Ice Hockey Championships
• EuroBasket 1935 took place in Geneva in May
• 1935–36 Nationalliga
• The Berne Trial, which began in 1933, ends^[4]
• The Eternal Mask, an Austrian-Swiss drama, is released^[5]
• 1935 Swiss federal election
• 1935 Swiss referendums

Births

• 5 February – Michel Steininger, fencer
• 5 March – Felix Walker, politician
• 24 March – Peter Bichsel, writer and journalist
• 12 April – Heinz Schneiter, footballer
• 16 August – Bruno Spoerri, musician
• 18 September – Dimitri, clown
• 19 September – Hansjörg Wyss, businessman and philanthropist
• 11 November – Raymund Schwager, Roman Catholic priest and theologian (died 27 February 2004)
• Martina Deuchler, academic
• Peter Baumann, psychiatrist (died 2011)

Deaths

• 26 March – Eugene Zimmerman, Swiss-American cartoonist (born 1862)
• 19 September – Jules Cambon, French diplomat who died in Switzerland (born 1845)
• Benita von Falkenhayn, German baroness who served as a spy for the Second Polish Republic (born 1900)^[6]
• François De Loys, oil geologist who allegedly discovered a hitherto-unknown primate (born 1892)

Notes and References

1. Web site: All federal councillors since 1848 . www.admin.ch . 22 January 2024 . en.
2. Web site: Presidents of the Confederation . www.admin.ch . 22 January 2024 . en.
3. Web site: Olympedia – Olympians Who Won a Medal at the European Figure Skating Championships . www.olympedia.org . 3 February 2024.
4. Book: Holmes, Colin . Anti-Semitism in British Society, 1876-1939 . 2015-10-16 . Routledge . 978-1-317-38444-1 . 154 . en.
5. Book: Bock . ans-Michael . The Concise Cinegraph: Encyclopaedia of German Cinema . Bergfelder . im . 2009-09-01 . Berghahn Books . 978-0-85745-565-9 . 202 . en.
6. 1935-02-25 . GERMANY: Baroness Beheaded . en-US . Time . 2023-01-29 . 0040-781X.