Events during the year 1920 in Switzerland.

Incumbents

* Federal Council: ** Giuseppe Motta (president) ** Edmund Schulthess **

Robert Haab Robert Haab (8 August 1865 – 15 October 1939) was a Swiss politician. He was elected to the Swiss Federal Council on 13 December 1917 and handed over office on 31 December 1929. He was affiliated to the Free Democratic Party of Switzerland, Fr ...

Karl Scheurer Karl Scheurer (27 September 1872, in Sumiswald – 14 November 1929) was a Swiss politician. He was elected to the Swiss Federal Council on 11 December 1919 and died in office on 14 November 1929. He was affiliated with the Free Democratic Part ...

Jean-Marie Musy Jean-Marie Musy (10 April 1876 – 19 April 1952) was a Swiss politician. Affiliated with the Christian Democratic People's Party of Switzerland, he was elected to the Federal Council of Switzerland on 11 December 1919 served until 30 April 193 ...

Ernest Chuard Ernest Chuard (31 July 1857, in Corcelles-près-Payerne – 9 November 1942) was a Swiss politician and member of the Swiss Federal Council (1919–1928). He was elected to the Swiss Federal Council on 11 December 1919 and handed over office ...

Heinrich Häberlin Heinrich Häberlin (6 September 1868 – 26 February 1947) was a Swiss politician, judge and member of the Swiss Federal Council (1920–1934). From 1904 he was a member of the Swiss Council of States, from 1905 member of the Grand Council of t ...

Events

* 10 January – The League of Nations is established with Switzerland as one of its founding members and its headquarters established in Geneva. * 15 November – The first convention of the League of Nations takes place in Geneva with 41 member states in attendance.

Births

* 19 June –

Antoinette Meyer Antoinette Meyer, later ''Molitor'' (19 June 1920 – 19 July 2010) was a Swiss alpine skier who competed in the 1948 Winter Olympics. She was born in Hospental Hospental (locally ''Oschpidall'') is a municipality in the canton of Uri i ...

, alpine skier (died

2010 File:2010 Events Collage New.png, From top left, clockwise: The 2010 Chile earthquake was one of the strongest recorded in history; The Eruption of Eyjafjallajökull in Iceland disrupts air travel in Europe; A scene from the opening ceremony of ...

) * 24 December – Edy Reinalter, alpine skier (died 1962 in Austria)

Deaths

* 12 February –

Adolf Frey Adolf Frey (18 February 1855, Küttigen – 12 February 1920, Zurich) was a Swiss writer and literary historian. He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature seven times. Life The son of popular writer Jakob Frey (1824–1875), he stud ...

– writer and historian (born

1855 Events January–March * January 1 – Ottawa, Ontario, is incorporated as a city. * January 5 – Ramón Castilla begins his third term as President of Peru. * January 23 ** The first bridge over the Mississippi River opens ...

)

References

{{Years in Switzerland

Switzerland ). Swiss law does not designate a ''capital'' as such, but the federal parliament and government are installed in Bern, while other federal institutions, such as the federal courts, are in other cities (Bellinzona, Lausanne, Luzern, Neuchâtel ...

1920s in Switzerland