1938 in Switzerland explained

Events during the year 1938 in Switzerland.

Incumbents

• Federal Council

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• • 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

• 2 August – Yvonne Rüegg, alpine skier^[4]
• 4 October – Kurt Wüthrich, chemist^[5]

Deaths

• 13 May – Charles Édouard Guillaume, physicist (born 1861)^[6]
• 15 June – Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, German painter (born 1880 in Germany)^[7]

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 . 31 January 2024.
4. Web site: Olympedia – Yvonne Rüegg . www.olympedia.org . 7 February 2024.
5. Web site: The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2002 . NobelPrize.org . 31 January 2024.
6. Web site: The Nobel Prize in Physics 1920 . NobelPrize.org . 6 February 2024.
7. Book: Kirchner, Ernst Ludwig . Oxford Reference . January 2004 . Oxford University Press . 978-0-19-860476-1 . 26 February 2024.