1938 in Switzerland

Events during the year 1938 in Switzerland.

Incumbents

• Federal Council:
• Johannes Baumann (president)
• 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.

Births

• 11 February – Edith Mathis, operatic soprano (d. 2025)
• 27 March – Hansjörg Schneider, novelist
• 2 August – Yvonne Rüegg, alpine skier
• 4 October – Kurt Wüthrich, chemist

Deaths

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

References