1955 in Switzerland

Events during the year 1955 in Switzerland.

Incumbents

• Federal Council:
• Max Petitpierre (president)
• Philipp Etter
• Markus Feldmann
• Paul Chaudet
• Thomas Holenstein
• Giuseppe Lepori
• Hans Streuli

Events

• 14-16 February – Four Romanian émigrés seize the Romanian embassy in Bern and kill a chauffeur in protest of Romania's communist government.

Births

• 24 August – Sylvie Perrinjaquet, politician
• 11 September – Laurence Fehlmann Rielle, politician

Deaths

• 30 June – Félix Bédouret, footballer (born 1897)
• 23 August – Rudolf Minger, politician (born 1881)

References