List of members of the Swiss Federal Council
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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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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 Francis Matthey (1942-2002) NE.
4Exceptionally low representation of the French and Italian speaking cantons, compared to the German speaking ones (1:6). In recent years, those are overrepresented 3:4 (proportional to their population).
5Since 1959: Magic formula (Zauberformel) of party composition (proportional to parties in federal 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.
Statistics/trivia
Political party of the councilors
| Parties | Members1 | Years in office 1 |
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| FDP/PRD (Freisinnige, parti radical) | 67 | |
| LPS/PLS | 1 | |
| CVP/PDC (formerly KVP) | 19 | |
| SVP/UDC (formerly BGB/PAI) | 9 | |
| SPS/PSS | 12 |
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)
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
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
Years alive after resigning from office
36 Ulrich Ochsenbein, died in 1890 35 Hans Schaffner in 2004 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
Age
95 Hans Schaffner in 2004 (born 1908) Max Petitpierre in 1994 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
External link
- Chronological index of Federal Councillors (official site) (http://www.admin.ch/ch/e/cf/br/index2.html)
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