1938 in Switzerland

none thumb | right | alt=Apostolic Chapel in Basel, Switzerland | Apostolic Chapel in Basel, Switzerland 1938 Events during the year 1938 in Switzerland. Incumbents Federal Council:All federal councillors since 1848 https://www.admin.ch/gov/en/start/federal-council/history-of-the-federal-council/federal-council-elections-since-1848/alle-bundesraete-liste.html www.admin.ch 22 January 2024 en Johannes Baumann (president)Presidents of the Confederation https://www.admin.ch/gov/en/start/bundespraesidium/bundespraesidenten-und-schweizer-geschichte/praesidenten-seit1848-liste.html www.admin.ch 22 January 2024 en 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.Olympedia – Olympians Who Won a Medal at the European Figure Skating Championships https://www.olympedia.org/lists/205/manual www.olympedia.org 31 January 2024 Births 11 February – Edith Mathis, operatic soprano (d. 2025)Soprano Edith Mathis 27 March – Hansjörg Schneider, novelistHansjörg Schneider 2 August – Yvonne Rüegg, alpine skierOlympedia – Yvonne Rüegg https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/82239 www.olympedia.org 7 February 2024 4 October – Kurt Wüthrich, chemistThe Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2002 https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/chemistry/2002/wuthrich/biographical/ NobelPrize.org 31 January 2024 Deaths 13 May – Charles Édouard Guillaume, physicist (born 1861)The Nobel Prize in Physics 1920 https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physics/1920/guillaume/biographical/ NobelPrize.org 6 February 2024 15 June – Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, German painter (born 1880 in Germany)Kirchner, Ernst Ludwig https://www.oxfordreference.com/display/10.1093/acref/9780198604761.001.0001/acref-9780198604761-e-1882 Oxford Reference January 2004 Oxford University Press 978-0-19-860476-1 26 February 2024 References 1938 Switzerland Switzerland Category:1930s in Switzerland