1920 in Switzerland

Events during the year 1920 in Switzerland.

Incumbents

• Federal Council:
• Giuseppe Motta (president)
• Edmund Schulthess
• Robert Haab
• Karl Scheurer
• Jean-Marie Musy
• Ernest Chuard
• Heinrich Häberlin

Events

• 10 January – The League of Nations is established with Switzerland as one of its founding members and its headquarters established in Geneva.
• 15 November – The first convention of the League of Nations takes place in Geneva with 41 member states in attendance.

Births

• 19 June – Antoinette Meyer, alpine skier (died 2010)
• 24 December – Edy Reinalter, alpine skier (died 1962 in Austria)

Deaths

• 12 February – Adolf Frey – writer and historian (born 1855)

References