1935 in Switzerland

See also: 1935 Swiss federal election and 1935 Swiss referendums

← 1934 1933 1932 1935 in Switzerland → 1936 1937 1938
Decades:	1910s 1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s
See also:	History of Switzerland Timeline of Swiss history List of years in Switzerland

The following is a list of events, births, and deaths in 1935 in Switzerland.

Incumbents

• Federal Council:
  • Giuseppe Motta
  • Edmund Schulthess then Hermann Obrecht
  • Philipp Etter
  • Johannes Baumann
  • Marcel Pilet-Golaz
  • Albert Meyer
  • Rudolf Minger (President)

Tournaments

• 1934-35 Nationalliga
• 1935 European Figure Skating Championships
• FIS Alpine World Ski Championships 1935
• 1935 Swiss Grand Prix
• 1935 World Ice Hockey Championships
• EuroBasket 1935 took place in Geneva in May
• 1935–36 Nationalliga

Establishments

• Swiss Society of New Zealand

Events

• The Berne Trial is in progress, and ending in this year (from 1933)
• The Eternal Mask, an Austrian-Swiss drama, is published

Births

• February 5-Michel Steininger, a fencer
• March 5-Felix Walker, a politician
• March 24-Peter Bichsel, a writer and journalist
• April 12-Heinz Schneiter, a footballer (association football)
• August 16-Bruno Spoerri, a musician
• September 18-Dimitri, a clown
• September 19-Hansjörg Wyss, businessman and philanthropist
• November 11-Raymund Schwager, a Roman Catholic priest and theologian (d. February 27 2004)
• Martina Deuchler, an academic
• Peter Baumann, a psychiatrist (d. 2011)

Deaths

• March 26-Eugene Zimmerman, a Swiss-American cartoonist (b. May 26, 1862)
• September 19-Jules Cambon, a French diplomat who died in Switzerland (b. April 5, 1845)
• Benita von Falkenhayn, a German baroness who served as a spy for the Second Polish Republic (b. August 14, 1900)
• François De Loys, an oil geologist who allegedly discovered a hitherto-unknown primate (b. 1892)