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Member of the Swiss Federal Council



         


The table below shows the members of the Swiss Federal Council or Federal Councilors (in German: Bundesräte, in French: conseillers fédéraux, in Italian: consiglieri federali) for any given year since instauration of the federal council (in German: Bundesrat, in French: conseil fédéral, in Italian: consiglio federale) from 1848 to present. If you are only interested in a chronological list of the members, you can view the page without the html-tags of the source.

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Table

Decade First day in office1 Federal councilors
1848&nbsp 16 November 1848
Ulrich Ochsenbein2 Jonas Furrer Martin Josef Munzinger Daniel Henri Druey Friedrich Frey-Herosé Wilhelm Matthias Näff Stefano Franscini
1850s &nbsp


31 December 1854 Jakob Stämpfli


11 July 1855 3 Constant Fornerod


14 July 1855 Melchior Josef Martin Knüsel


30 July 1857 Giovanni Battista Pioda


1860s &nbsp


30 July 1861 Jakob Dubs


31 December 1863 Karl Schenk


12 July 1864 Jean-Jacques Challet-Venel 2


31 December 1866 Emil Welti


31 October 1867 Victor Ruffy


1870s &nbsp


1 February 1870 Paul Cérésole


28 May 1872 Johann Jakob Scherer


31 December 1872 Eugène Borel


31 December 1875 3 4 Joachim Heer Numa Droz Fridolin Anderwert Bernhard Hammer


31 December 1878 4 Simeon Bavier


1880s &nbsp


3 March 1881 3 Antoine Louis John Ruchonnet


10 April 1883 Adolf Deucher


13 December 1888 Wilhelm Friedrich Hertenstein


1890s &nbsp


31 December 1890 Emil Frey


31 December 1891 Josef Zemp


31 December 1892 Adrien Lachenal


14 December 1893 Eugène Ruffy


16 August 1895 Eduard Müller Walter Hauser


31 March 1897 Ernst Brenner


14 December 1899 Marc-Emile Ruchet


1900s 31 December 1899 Robert Comtesse


11 December 1902 Ludwig Forrer


17 June 1908 Josef Anton Schobinger


1910s &nbsp


4 April 1911 Arthur Hoffmann


14 December 1911 Giuseppe Motta


12 March 1912 Louis Perrier


17 July 1912 Edmund Schulthess Camille Decoppet


12 June 1913 Felix-Louis Calonder


26 June 1917 Gustave Ador


31 December 1917 Robert Haab


11 December 1919 Karl Scheurer


31 December 1919 Ernest Chuard Jean-Marie Musy


1920s &nbsp


12 February 1920 Heinrich Häberlin


31 December 1928 Marcel Pilet-Golaz


12 December 1929 Rudolf Minger Albert Meyer


1930s &nbsp


30 April 1934 Johannes Baumann Philipp Etter


15 April 1935 Hermann Obrecht


31 December 1938 Ernst Wetter


1940s &nbsp


22 February 1940 Enrico Celio


31 July 1940


10 December 1940 Eduard von Steiger Walter Stampfli


31 December 1940 Karl Kobelt


31 December 1943 Ernst Nobs


31 December 1944 Max Petitpierre


31 December 1947 Rodolphe Rubattel


1950s &nbsp


15 October 1950 Josef Escher


13 December 1951 Markus Feldmann


31 December 1951 Max Weber


9 December 1954 Thomas Holenstein


31 December 1954 Hans Streuli Paul Chaudet Giuseppe Lepori


11 December 1958 Friedrich Traugott Wahlen


1960s 31 December 1959 5 Willy Spühler Hans-Peter Tschudi Ludwig von Moos Jean Bourgknecht


30 June 1961 Hans Schaffner


30 September 1962 Roger Bonvin


31 December 1965 Rudolf Gnägi


31 December 1966 Nello Celio


1970s 31 December 1969 Ernst Brugger


31 January 1970 Pierre Graber


31 December 1971 Kurt Furgler


1 December 1973 Willy Ritschard


31 December 1973 Georges-André Chevallaz Hans Hürlimann


31 January 1978 Pierre Aubert Fritz Honegger


1980s 31 December 1979 Leon Schlumpf


31 December 1982 Rudolf Friedrich Alphons Egli


7 December 1983 Otto Stich


31 December 1983 Jean-Pascal Delamuraz


20 October 1984 Elisabeth Kopp


31 December 1986 Arnold Koller Flavio Cotti


31 December 1987 Adolf Ogi René Felber


12 January 1989 Kaspar Villiger
1990s 31 December 1989


31 March 1993 3 Ruth Dreifuss


31 October 1995 Moritz Leuenberger


30 March 1998 Pascal Couchepin


30 April 1999 Ruth Metzler-Arnold 2


Joseph Deiss


2000s &nbsp


31 December 2000 Samuel Schmid


31 December 2002 Micheline Calmy-Rey


31 December 20036


Christoph Blocher


Hans-Rudolf Merz


3 January 2005

Notes:
1Members are elected by federal parliament for a four year term and traditionally re-elected. If the predecessor died in office, date of election, otherwise - if available - first day in office.
2Not reelected (Jean-Jacques Challet-Venel, Ulrich Ochsenbein, Ruth Metzler-Arnold)
3The office was previously declined by the first person elected: 11.7.1855 Johann Stehlin (1803-1879) BS; 18.12.1875 Charles Estoppey (1820-1888) VD; 10.12.1875 Antoine Louis John Ruchonnet (1834-1893) VD, accepted later; 22.2.1881 Karl Hoffmann (1820-1895) SG; 03.03.1993 parliament): FDP/PRD 2, CVP/PDC 2, SPS/PSS 2, SVP/UDC 1.
6Change to magic formula of party composition (again proportional to parties in federal parliament): FDP/PRD 2, SPS/PSS 2, SVP/UDC 2, CVP/PDC 1.

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Statistics/trivia

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Political party of the councilors

Parties Members1 Years in office 1
FDP/PRD (Freisinnige, parti radical)67
LPS/PLS1
CVP/PDC (formerly KVP)19
SVP/UDC9
SPS/PSS12
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Years in office

31 Karl Schenk in 1895 29 Adolf Deucher in 1912 28 Giuseppe Motta in 1940 27 Wilhelm Matthias Näff in 1875 25 Emil Welti in 1891 Eugène Ruffy in 1919 Giovanni Battista Pioda in 1882 Philipp Etter in 1959 24 Eduard Müller in 1919 22 Edmund Schulthess in 1935 Robert Comtesse in 1922 20 Melchior Josef Martin Knüsel in 1875
1 Louis Perrier in 1913 Rudolf Friedrich in 1984 2 Gustave Ador in 1919 Jean Bourgknecht in 1962 Max Weber in 1954 Victor Ruffy in 1869 3 Eugène Borel in 1875 Joachim Heer in 1878 Josef Anton Schobinger in 1911 4 Alphons Egli in 1986 Elisabeth Kopp in 1989 Josef Escher in 1954 Ruth Metzler-Arnold in 2003 5 Ernst Wetter in 1943 Fridolin Anderwert in 1880 Fritz Honegger in 1982 Giuseppe Lepori in 1959 Hermann Obrecht in 1940 Paul Cérésole in 1875 René Felber in 1993 Thomas Holenstein in 1959

(w/o councilors currently in office)

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Age when elected

72 Gustave Ador in 1917 65 Josef Escher in 1950 63 Louis Perrier in 1912 Christoph Blocher in 2003 62 Ernest Chuard in 1919 61 Ernst Wetter in 1938 Hans Streuli in 1953 Pierre Graber in 1969 Hans-Rudolf Merz in 2004 60 Fritz Honegger in 1977 Johannes Baumann in 1934
31 Numa Droz in 1875 34 Jakob Stämpfli in 1854 35 Ruth Metzler-Arnold in 1999 36 Constant Fornerod in 1855 Eugène Borel in 1872 37 Ulrich Ochsenbein in 1848 38 Paul Cérésole in 1870 39 Eugène Ruffy in 1893 Jakob Dubs in 1861 Marcel Pilet-Golaz in 1928
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Age when resigning/dying in office

81 Adolf Deucher in 1912 75 Robert Comtesse in 1922 74 Giovanni Battista Pioda in 1882 Gustave Ador in 1919 Josef Zemp in 1908 73 Wilhelm Matthias Näff in 1875 72 Karl Schenk in 1895 Ludwig Forrer in 1917 71 Eduard Müller in 1919 Ernest Chuard in 1928 Simeon Bavier in 1896 70 Arthur Hoffmann in 1927 Eduard von Steiger in 1951 Pierre Graber in 1978 69 Giuseppe Motta in 1940 Josef Escher in 1954 68 Albert Meyer in 1938 Bernhard Hammer in 1890 Georges-André Chevallaz in 1983 Otto Stich in 1995 Philipp Etter in 1959 Willy Spühler in 1970 67 Edmund Schulthess in 1935 Hans Streuli in 1959 66 Arnold Koller in 1999 Emil Welti in 1891 Ernst Wetter in 1943 Friedrich Traugott Wahlen in 1965 Heinrich Häberlin in 1934 Johannes Baumann in 1940 Roger Bonvin in 1973
39 Ruth Metzler-Arnold in 2004 40 Eugène Borel in 1875 43 Jakob Stämpfli in 1863 Paul Cérésole in 1875 Ulrich Ochsenbein in 1854 46 Victor Ruffy in 1869 48 Constant Fornerod in 1867 Numa Droz in 1892 50 Adrien Lachenal in 1899 Jakob Dubs in 1872
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Years alive after resigning from office

36 Ulrich Ochsenbein, died in 1890 33 Max Petitpierre in 1994 32 Constant Fornerod in 1899 Felix-Louis Calonder in 1952 30 Enrico Celio in 1980 Paul Cérésole in 1905 29 Hans-Peter Tschudi in 2002 25 Emil Frey in 1922 Pierre Graber in 2003 22 Nello Celio in 1995
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Age

95 Max Petitpierre in 1994 (born 1899) 94 Pierre Graber in 2003 90 Enrico Celio in 1980 88 Felix-Louis Calonder in 1952 Hans-Peter Tschudi in 2002 Willy Spühler in 1990 87 Georges-André Chevallaz in 2002 86 Friedrich Traugott Wahlen in 1985 Philipp Etter in 1977


See also: Politics of Switzerland - Presidents of the Swiss Confederation - Executive branch - Incumbents






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