1954 in Switzerland

Events during the year 1954 in Switzerland.

Incumbents

• Federal Council:
• Rodolphe Rubattel (president, until December)
• Max Petitpierre
• Philipp Etter
• Karl Kobelt (until December)
• Max Weber (until January)
• Josef Escher (until December)
• Markus Feldmann
• Hans Streuli
• Paul Chaudet (from December)
• Thomas Holenstein (from December)
• Giuseppe Lepori (from December)

Events

• 25–29 August – The 1954 European Athletics Championships take place in Bern.
• 29 September – CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, is founded in Geneva.

Births

• 8 March – Marie-Theres Nadig, alpine skeir

Deaths

• 9 December – Josef Escher, politician (born 1885)

References