• Source: 1940 in Switzerland

      • Events during the year 1940 in Switzerland.


      Incumbents


      Federal Council:
      Marcel Pilet-Golaz (president)
      Philipp Etter
      Giuseppe Motta (until January)
      Johannes Baumann (until December)
      Hermann Obrecht (until July)
      Ernst Wetter
      Rudolf Minger (until December)
      Enrico Celio (from February)
      Walther Stampfli (from July)
      Karl Kobelt (from December)
      Eduard von Steiger (from December)


      Births


      9 January – Ruth Dreifuss, politician
      11 October – Christoph Blocher, politician
      27 December – Willi Hofmann, bobsledder


      Deaths


      23 January – Giuseppe Motta, politician (born 1871)
      29 June – Paul Klee, German-Swiss artist (born 1879)
      21 August – Hermann Obrecht, politician (born 1882)


      References

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