Edmund Schulthess (2 March 1868 – 22 April 1944) was a

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politician and member of the

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(1912–1935).

Biography

He was born on 2 March 1868 in

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to Edmund Schulthess (1826–1906) and Cornelia Brigitta Marth (1828–1896). He was elected to the

on 17 July 1912 and handed over office on 15 April 1935. He was affiliated to the Free Democratic Party. During his time in office he held the following departments: * Department of Trade, Industry and Agriculture (1912–1914) * Department of Economic Affairs (1915–1935) He was

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four times in 1917, 1921, 1928 and 1933. He died on 22 April 1944 in Bern.

Family

He married Marguerite Jeanne Disqué (born c. 1880) and had a daughter Nelly Marguerite Jeanne Schulthess, born in Switzerland on 13 August 1903. Like her parents, she married at the Church of the Holy Trinity in

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on 30 November 1933. She and her Portuguese husband (Vasco Francisco Caetano de Castro Coutinho de Quevedo Pessanha, born in

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, Coração de Jesus, on 3 July 1909) continued the family line.

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* 1868 births 1944 deaths People from Brugg District Swiss Calvinist and Reformed Christians Free Democratic Party of Switzerland politicians Members of the Federal Council (Switzerland) Members of the Council of States (Switzerland) Presidents of the Organising Committees for the Olympic Games Aargau politicians University of Strasbourg alumni Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich alumni Leipzig University alumni University of Bern alumni University of Paris alumni {{Switzerland-politician-stub