1938 in Switzerland

Incumbents

• Federal Council:
• *Johannes Baumann
• *Giuseppe Motta
• *Hermann Obrecht
• *Philipp Etter
• *Marcel Pilet-Golaz
• *Albert Meyer, then Ernst Wetter
• *Rudolf Minger

Events

• The 1938 European Figure Skating Championships take place in St. Moritz.

Births

• 11 February – Edith Mathis, operatic soprano
• 27 March – Hansjörg Schneider, novelist
• 2 August – Yvonne Rüegg, alpine skier
• 4 October – Kurt Wüthrich, chemist

Deaths

• 13 May – Charles Édouard Guillaume, physicist
• 15 June – Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, German painter