2019 in Switzerland

Events in the year 2019 in Switzerland.

Incumbents

• President of the Swiss Confederation: Ueli Maurer
• President of the National Council: Marina Carobbio Guscetti
• President of the Swiss Council of States: Jean-René Fournier

Events

• 22 September — A 'funeral' and mourning ceremony was held for the Pizol glacier which has disappeared due to rising temperatures.
• 20 October – Scheduled date for the 2019 Swiss federal election
• 25 November – present 2019 Sri Lankan Swiss embassy controversy.

Sports

• 1 January – Stage 3 of 2018–19 Tour de Ski was held in Val Müstair

• 19 to 25 August – Scheduled date for the 2019 BWF World Championships, to be held in Basel
• 7 to 15 December – Scheduled date for the 2019 Women's World Floorball Championships, to be held in Neuchâtel

Deaths

• 1 January – , photographer (born 1940)
• 3 January – Jean Revillard, photojournalist (born 1967)
• 4 January – , musician (born 1959).
• 5 January – , historian (born 1928)
• 10 January – , politician (born 1928)
• 18 January – , literary scholar (born 1931)
• 29 January – Otto Schubiger, ice hockey player (born 1925)
• 15 February – Bruno Ganz, actor (Wings of Desire, Downfall, The Manchurian Candidate) (born 1941)
• 20 February – Claude Goretta, television producer and film director (born 1929)
• 14 March – Kurt Armbruster, footballer (born 1934)
• 18 April – Ivo Frosio, footballer (born 1930)
• 20 April – Karl Grob, footballer (born 1946)
• 7 June – Max Bösiger, boxer (born 1933)
• 1 August – Annemarie Huber-Hotz, politician (born 1948)
• 15 September – Eva Haldimann, literary critic and translator (born 1927)
• 2 November – Marie Laforêt, singer and actress (born 1939)

References