The following is a list of events, births, and deaths in 1929 in
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 ...
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Incumbents
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Federal Council:
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Giuseppe Motta
Giuseppe Motta (29 December 1871 – 23 January 1940) was a Swiss politician. He was a member of the Swiss Federal Council (1911–1940) and President of the League of Nations (1924–1925). He was a Catholic-conservative foreign minister and a s ...
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Edmund Schulthess
Edmund Schulthess (2 March 1868 – 22 April 1944) was a Swiss politician and member of the Swiss Federal Council (1912–1935).
Biography
He was born on 2 March 1868 in Villnachern to Edmund Schulthess (1826–1906) and Cornelia Brigitta Marth ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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Marcel Pilet-Golaz
Marcel Pilet-Golaz (31 December 1889 – 11 April 1958) was a Swiss politician. He was elected to the Swiss Federal Council on 13 December 1928 and handed over office on 31 December 1944. He was affiliated to the Free Democratic Party.
Duri ...
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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 ...
(President) then
Albert Meyer Albert Meyer may refer to:
*Albert Meyer (politician) (1870–1953), member of the Swiss Federal Council, 1929–1938
* Albert Gregory Meyer (1903–1965), Archbishop of Chicago
* Albert J. Meyer (economist) (1919–1983), American economist
* Albe ...
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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 ...
then
Rudolf Minger
Rudolf Minger (13 November 1881 – 23 August 1955) was a Swiss politician and member of the Swiss Federal Council (1929–1940). He also was a farmer all his life.
He was elected to the Federal Council on 12 December 1929 and handed over office ...
Tournaments
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1928–29 Swiss Serie A
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1929 European Figure Skating Championships
The 1929 European Figure Skating Championships were held in Davos, Switzerland. Elite senior-level figure skaters
Figure skating is a sport in which individuals, pairs, or groups perform on figure skates on ice. It was the first winter sp ...
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1929 UCI Road World Championships
The 1929 UCI Road World Championships took place in Zürich
, neighboring_municipalities = Adliswil, Dübendorf, Fällanden, Kilchberg, Maur, Oberengstringen, Opfikon, Regensdorf, Rümlang, Schlieren, Stallikon, Uitikon, Urdorf, Wallisell ...
took place in
Zurich
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1929–30 Swiss Serie A
Establishments
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Zürich Zoologischer Garten
The Zoo Zürich is a zoo located in Zürich, Switzerland and together with the Basel Zoo is considered one of the best zoos in Europe. Opened in 1929, it is the third oldest zoo in Switzerland (after Basel and Arth-Goldau) and it accumulated a ...
Events by Month
January
*January 9-
Jacques-Louis Reverdin
Jaques-Louis Reverdin (28 August 1842 – 9 January 1929) was a Swiss surgeon who was a native of Cologny.
He studied at the University of Paris, becoming an interne of hospitals in 1865. In 1869 he became an assistant to Jean Casimir Félix Guyo ...
, a Swiss surgeon, dies
February
March
*March 25-
Marcel Mauron, a Swiss footballer, is born
April
*April 5-
Josef Schraner, a Swiss cyclist, is born
*April 7-
Paul Sarasin
Paul Sarasin, full name Paul Benedict Sarasin (11 December 1856 – 7 April 1929) was a Swiss people, Swiss naturalist and ethnologist. He is known as founder of National parks in Switzerland.[André Haefliger
André Haefliger (born 22 May 1929 in Nyon, Switzerland) is a Swiss mathematician who works primarily on topology.
Education and career
Haefliger went to school in Nyon and then attended his final years at Collège Calvin in Geneva. He studied ...]
, a Swiss mathematician, is born
June
*June 20-
Marcel Flückiger
Marcel Flückiger (20 June 1929 – 27 November 2010) was a Swiss football defender who played for Switzerland in the 1954 FIFA World Cup
The 1954 FIFA World Cup was the fifth edition of the FIFA World Cup, the quadrennial international fo ...
is born
July
*July 27-
Geneva Convention (1929) Geneva Convention (1929) may refer to:
* Geneva Convention on Prisoners of War (1929)
* Geneva Convention on the Wounded and Sick (1929)
The Geneva Convention for the Amelioration of the Condition of the Wounded and Sick in Armies in the Field, c ...
, also known as "Convention relative to the Treatment of Prisoners of War, Geneva July 27, 1929", is signed
*July 27-
is signed
*July 28-
Werner Vetterli
Werner Vetterli (28 July 1929 – 14 June 2008) was a Swiss modern pentathlete. He competed at the 1952 and 1960 Summer Olympics. In 1956, Vetterli began to work for Schweizer Radio DRS, in 1965 for Swiss television as a reporter, presenter a ...
, a Swiss modern pentathlete, is born
August
*August 29-
Fausto Lurati
Fausto Lurati (29 August 1929 – 28 July 2015) was a Swiss cyclist. He competed in the individual and team road race events at the 1952 Summer Olympics
The 1952 Summer Olympics ( fi, Kesäolympialaiset 1952; sv, Olympiska sommarspele ...
, a Swiss cyclist, is born
September
*September 14-
John Maria Gatti
Sir John Maria Emilio Gatti (13 August 1872 – 14 September 1929) was an Anglo-Swiss theatre manager, restaurateur and businessman who was also a prominent Conservative politician in London local government.
Born as Joannes Maria Aemilius Gatti i ...
, a Swiss theatre manager, restaurateur and businessman, dies
*September 16-
Hans Pfenninger
Hans Pfenninger (16 September 1929 – 17 December 2009) was a Swiss cyclist. He competed at the 1948 and 1952 Summer Olympics
The 1952 Summer Olympics ( fi, Kesäolympialaiset 1952; sv, Olympiska sommarspelen 1952), officially known a ...
, a Swiss cyclist, is born
*September 19-
Luigi Taveri
Luigi Taveri (19 September 1929 – 1 March 2018) was a Swiss professional Grand Prix motorcycle road racer. He competed in the FIM motorcycle Grand Prix world championships from 1954 to 1966. Taveri is notable for being a three-time 125cc roa ...
, a Swiss ex-motorcycle racer, is born
October
*October 11-
Liselotte Pulver
Liselotte Pulver (born 11 October 1929), sometimes credited as Lilo Pulver, is a Swiss actress. Pulver was one of the biggest stars of German cinema in the 1950s and 1960s, where she often was cast as a tomboy. She is well known for her hearty an ...
, a Swiss actress, is born
*October 25-
Charles Ribordy, a Swiss fencer, is born
*October 29-
Ida Schöpfer
Ida Schöpfer (22 October 1929 – 7 June 2014) was a Swiss alpine skier, ten times Swiss champion in alpine skiing and 1954 World Champion in Downhill skiing and Alpine combined. She competed in the 1952 Winter Olympics
The 1952 Winter Olymp ...
, a former Swiss skier, is born
November
December
*December 6-
Alain Tanner
Alain Tanner (6 December 1929 – 11 September 2022) was a Swiss film director.
Early years and education
Tanner was born in Geneva, and studied economics at the University of Geneva. In 1951, he joined the film club which Claude Goretta had re ...
, a Swiss film director, is born
Other
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St. Moritz Ski School is founded by
Giovanni Testa, and is the first official ski school in Switzerland
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Rudolf Minger
Rudolf Minger (13 November 1881 – 23 August 1955) was a Swiss politician and member of the Swiss Federal Council (1929–1940). He also was a farmer all his life.
He was elected to the Federal Council on 12 December 1929 and handed over office ...
is elected member of the government
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Marcel Roethlisberger
Marcel Roethlisberger or Röthlisberger (born 1929), is a Swiss art historian and retired professor from the University of Geneva.
He completed his doctoral thesis on Jacopo Bellini in 1955. He married the art historian Biancamaria Bianco in 1962 ...
, a Swiss art historian, is born
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Meta von Salis
Barbara Margaretha "Meta" von Salis (3 January 1855 – 15 March 1929) was a Swiss feminist and historian, as well as a regular correspondent of Friedrich Nietzsche.
Early life and education
Meta von Salis was born in 1855 on her family's estat ...
, a Swiss feminist, dies
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Paolo Vollmeier, a Swiss philatelist, is born
References
{{Year in Europe, 1929
Years of the 20th century in Switzerland