1942 in Switzerland

Events during the year 1942 in Switzerland.

Incumbents

• Federal Council:
• Philipp Etter (president)
• Marcel Pilet-Golaz
• Ernst Wetter
• Karl Kobelt
• Enrico Celio
• Walther Stampfli
• Eduard von Steiger

Births

• 12 January – Michel Mayor, astrophysicist
• 5 April – Pascal Couchepin, politician
• 8 June – Jacques Dubochet, biophysicist
• 18 July – Adolf Ogi, politician
• 10 November – Hans-Rudolf Merz, politician

Deaths

• 15 May – Annemarie Schwarzenbach, author and photographer (born 1908)
• 9 November – Ernest Chuard, politician (born 1857)

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