Edmund Schulthess


Edmund Schulthess was a Swiss politician and member of the Swiss Federal Council.

Biography

He was born on 2 March 1868 in Villnachern to Edmund Schulthess and wife Cornelia Brigitta Marth. He was the brother of internist and pediatrician Wilhelm Schulthess and great-great-grandnephew of educator and philanthropist Anna Pestalozzi-Schulthess and born into the Schulthess family, a wealthy and renowned merchant family which ran a bakery and Konditorei at the Rüdenplatz in Zürich.
He was elected to the Swiss Federal Council 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:
He was President of the Swiss Confederation four times, in 1917, 1921, 1928 and 1933.
He died on 22 April 1944 in Bern.

Family

He married Marguerite Jeanne Disqué 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 Bern on 30 November 1933. She and her Portuguese husband continued the family line.