Federal Department of Finance

The Federal Department of Finance (in German: Eidgenössisches Finanzdepartement (EFD), in French Département fédéral des finances) is one of the seven departments of the Swiss federal government. The department is headed by a member of the Swiss Federal Council, Switzerland's finance minister.

Initially, in 1848, the department was called "Department of Finance", then, from 1873 "Department of Finance and Customs", until it received its present designation in 1978.

List of heads of the department

• 1848-1850: Josef Munzinger
• 1851 only: Henri Druey
• 1852 only: Josef Munzinger
• 1853-1855: Henri Druey
• 1855-1856: Melchior Josef Martin Knüsel
• 1857-1858: Jakob Stämpfli
• 1859-1861: Constant Fornerod
• 1862-1863: Melchior Josef Martin Knüsel
• 1864-1867: Jean-Jacques Challet-Venel
• 1868 only: Victor Ruffy
• 1869 only: Jean-Jacques Challet-Venel
• 1870-1871: Paul Cérésole
• 1872 only: Karl Schenk
• 1872-1873: Johann Jakob Scherer
• 1873-1875: Wilhelm Matthias Näff
• 1876-1878: Bernhard Hammer
• 1879 only: Simeon Bavier
• 1880-1890: Bernhard Hammer
• 1891-1899: Walter Hauser
• 1900 only: Robert Comtesse
• 1901-1902: Walter Hauser
• 1903 only: Robert Comtesse
• 1904 only: Marc-Emile Ruchet
• 1905-1909: Robert Comtesse
• 1910 only: Josef Anton Schobinger
• 1911 only: Robert Comtesse
• 1912-1919: Giuseppe Motta
• 1920-1934: Jean-Marie Musy
• 1934-1938: Albert Meyer
• 1939-1943: Ernst Wetter
• 1944-1951: Ernst Nobs
• 1952-1954: Max Weber
• 1954-1959: Hans Streuli
• 1960-1962: Jean Bourgknecht
• 1962-1968: Roger Bonvin
• 1968-1973: Nello Celio
• 1974-1979: Georges-André Chevallaz
• 1980-1983: Willy Ritschard
• 1984-1995: Otto Stich
• 1996-2003: Kaspar Villiger
• Since 2004: Hans-Rudolf Merz