1938 in Switzerland
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Events during the year 1938 in Switzerland.
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Incumbents
- Federal Council:[1]
- Johannes Baumann (president)[2]
- Giuseppe Motta
- Hermann Obrecht
- Philipp Etter
- Marcel Pilet-Golaz
- Albert Meyer (until December), then Ernst Wetter
- Rudolf Minger
Events
- The 1938 European Figure Skating Championships take place in St. Moritz.[3]
Births
- 11 February â Edith Mathis, operatic soprano (d. 2025)[4]
- 27 March â Hansjörg Schneider, novelist[5]
- 2 August â Yvonne Rüegg, alpine skier[6]
- 4 October â Kurt Wüthrich, chemist[7]
Deaths
- 13 May â Charles Ãdouard Guillaume, physicist (born 1861)[8]
- 15 June â Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, German painter (born 1880 in Germany)[9]