List of members of the Swiss Federal Council by date

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For a chronological list of Councillors serving together, see List of members of the Swiss Federal Council.
The Swiss Federal Council and the Federal Chancellor as of February 2008. From left to right: Eveline Widmer-Schlumpf, Moritz Leuenberger, Micheline Calmy-Rey, Pascal Couchepin, Samuel Schmid, Doris Leuthard, Hans-Rudolf Merz, Federal Chancellor Corina Casanova.

This is a list of members of the Swiss Federal Council,[1] in chronological order and for any given year since inauguration of the federal council, from 1848 to present. The Council's seven members constitute the federal government of Switzerland and serve as the country's head of state. Each of the seven Councillors heads a department of the Swiss federal administration.[2]

The members of the Federal Council are elected for a term of four years by both chambers of the federal parliament sitting together as the Federal Assembly. Each Councillor is elected individually by secret ballot by an absolute majority of votes. A person elected to the Council by the Federal Assembly is considered a Federal Councillor even if he or she declines the election.[3] Accordingly, the five persons who did so and never assumed office are listed in a separate table below. For the same reason, the principal table only records the date of election, and not the date on which the Councillors assumed their office.

Once elected for a four-year-term, Federal Councillors can neither be voted out of office by a motion of no confidence nor can they be impeached. Re-election is possible for an indefinite number of terms. Parliament has decided not to re-elect a sitting Councillor only four times, and only twice (in 2003 and 2007) since 1872. In practice, therefore, Councillors serve until they decide to resign and retire to private life, usually after three to five terms of office.[4]

Chronological, global

  Free Democratic Party (FDP/PRD)
  Christian Democratic People's Party (CVP/PDC)
  Liberal Party (LPS/PLS)
  Swiss People's Party (SVP/UDC)
  Social Democratic Party (SPS/PSS)
  Conservative Democratic Party (BDP/PBD)
Decade First day in office[5] Federal councilors
1848 16 November 1848 rowspan="2" style="width:11%;" style="background:Template:Free Democratic Party of Switzerland/meta/color;"| Ulrich Ochsenbein[6] rowspan="7" style="width:11%;" style="background:Template:Free Democratic Party of Switzerland/meta/color;"| Jonas Furrer rowspan="4" style="width:11%;" style="background:Template:Free Democratic Party of Switzerland/meta/color;"| Josef Munzinger rowspan="3" style="width:11%;" style="background:Template:Free Democratic Party of Switzerland/meta/color;"| Henri Druey rowspan="10" style="width:11%;" style="background:Template:Free Democratic Party of Switzerland/meta/color;"| Friedrich Frey-Herosé rowspan="16" style="width:11%;" style="background:Template:Free Democratic Party of Switzerland/meta/color;"| Wilhelm Matthias Naeff rowspan="5" style="width:11%;" style="background:Template:Free Democratic Party of Switzerland/meta/color;"| Stefano Franscini
1850s
31 December 1854 rowspan="6" style="background:Template:Free Democratic Party of Switzerland/meta/color;" | Jakob Stämpfli
11 July 1855[7] rowspan="8" style="background:Template:Free Democratic Party of Switzerland/meta/color;"| Constant Fornerod
14 July 1855 rowspan="12" style="background:Template:Free Democratic Party of Switzerland/meta/color;" | Melchior Josef Martin Knüsel
30 July 1857 rowspan="4" style="background:Template:Free Democratic Party of Switzerland/meta/color;" | Giovanni Battista Pioda
1860s
30 July 1861 rowspan="7" style="background:Template:Free Democratic Party of Switzerland/meta/color;" | Jakob Dubs
31 December 1863 rowspan="19" style="background:Template:Free Democratic Party of Switzerland/meta/color;" | Karl Schenk
12 July 1864 rowspan="6" style="background:Template:Free Democratic Party of Switzerland/meta/color;" | Jean-Jacques Challet-Venel[6]
31 December 1866 rowspan="14" style="background:Template:Free Democratic Party of Switzerland/meta/color;" | Emil Welti
31 October 1867 rowspan="2" style="background:Template:Free Democratic Party of Switzerland/meta/color;" | Victor Ruffy
1870s
1 February 1870 rowspan="3" style="background:Template:Free Democratic Party of Switzerland/meta/color;" | Paul Cérésole
28 May 1872 rowspan="7" style="background:Template:Free Democratic Party of Switzerland/meta/color;" | Johann Jakob Scherer
31 December 1872 style="background:Template:Free Democratic Party of Switzerland/meta/color;" | Eugène Borel
31 December 1875[7][8] style="background:Template:Free Democratic Party of Switzerland/meta/color;"| Joachim Heer rowspan="9" style="background:Template:Free Democratic Party of Switzerland/meta/color;"| Numa Droz rowspan="3" style="background:Template:Free Democratic Party of Switzerland/meta/color;"| Fridolin Anderwert rowspan="7" style="background:Template:Free Democratic Party of Switzerland/meta/color;"| Bernhard Hammer
31 December 1878[8] rowspan="3" style="background:Template:Free Democratic Party of Switzerland/meta/color;"| Simeon Bavier
1880s
3 March 1881[7] rowspan="7" style="background:Template:Free Democratic Party of Switzerland/meta/color;"| Louis Ruchonnet
10 April 1883 rowspan="17" style="background:Template:Free Democratic Party of Switzerland/meta/color;" | Adolf Deucher
13 December 1888 rowspan="6" style="background:Template:Free Democratic Party of Switzerland/meta/color;"| Wilhelm Friedrich Hertenstein
1890s
31 December 1890 rowspan="5" style="background:Template:Free Democratic Party of Switzerland/meta/color;"| Emil Frey
31 December 1891 rowspan="8" style="background:Template:Christian Democratic People's Party of Switzerland/meta/color;" | Josef Zemp
31 December 1892 rowspan="5" style="background:Template:Free Democratic Party of Switzerland/meta/color;"| Adrien Lachenal
14 December 1893 rowspan="3" style="background:Template:Free Democratic Party of Switzerland/meta/color;"| Eugène Ruffy
16 August 1895 rowspan="14" style="background:Template:Free Democratic Party of Switzerland/meta/color;"| Eduard Müller rowspan="4" style="background:Template:Free Democratic Party of Switzerland/meta/color;"| Walter Hauser
31 March 1897 rowspan="6" style="background:Template:Free Democratic Party of Switzerland/meta/color;"| Ernst Brenner
14 December 1899 rowspan="8" style="background:Template:Free Democratic Party of Switzerland/meta/color;"| Marc-Emile Ruchet
1900s 31 December 1899 rowspan="6" style="background:Template:Free Democratic Party of Switzerland/meta/color;"| Robert Comtesse
11 December 1902 rowspan="9" style="background:Template:Free Democratic Party of Switzerland/meta/color;"| Ludwig Forrer
17 June 1908 rowspan="3" style="background:Template:Christian Democratic People's Party of Switzerland/meta/color;" | Josef Anton Schobinger
1910s
4 April 1911 rowspan="5" style="background:Template:Free Democratic Party of Switzerland/meta/color;" | Arthur Hoffmann
14 December 1911 rowspan="17" style="background:Template:Christian Democratic People's Party of Switzerland/meta/color;" | Giuseppe Motta
12 March 1912 rowspan="2" style="background:Template:Free Democratic Party of Switzerland/meta/color;"| Louis Perrier
17 July 1912 rowspan="12" style="background:Template:Free Democratic Party of Switzerland/meta/color;"| Edmund Schulthess rowspan="5" style="background:Template:Free Democratic Party of Switzerland/meta/color;"| Camille Decoppet
12 June 1913 rowspan="6" style="background:Template:Free Democratic Party of Switzerland/meta/color;"| Felix-Louis Calonder
26 June 1917 Gustave Ador
31 December 1917 rowspan="6" style="background:Template:Free Democratic Party of Switzerland/meta/color;"| Robert Haab
11 December 1919 rowspan="5" style="background:Template:Free Democratic Party of Switzerland/meta/color;"| Karl Scheurer
31 December 1919 rowspan="3" style="background:Template:Free Democratic Party of Switzerland/meta/color;"| Ernest Chuard rowspan="6" style="background:Template:Christian Democratic People's Party of Switzerland/meta/color;" | Jean-Marie Musy
1920s
12 February 1920 rowspan="4" style="background:Template:Free Democratic Party of Switzerland/meta/color;"| Heinrich Häberlin
31 December 1928 rowspan="12" style="background:Template:Free Democratic Party of Switzerland/meta/color;"| Marcel Pilet-Golaz
12 December 1929 rowspan="8" style="background:Template:Swiss People's Party/meta/color;" | Rudolf Minger rowspan="4" style="background:Template:Free Democratic Party of Switzerland/meta/color;"| Albert Meyer
1930s
30 April 1934 rowspan="7" style="background:Template:Free Democratic Party of Switzerland/meta/color;"| Johannes Baumann rowspan="18" style="background:Template:Christian Democratic People's Party of Switzerland/meta/color;" | Philipp Etter
15 April 1935 rowspan="5" style="background:Template:Free Democratic Party of Switzerland/meta/color;"| Hermann Obrecht
31 December 1938 rowspan="6" style="background:Template:Free Democratic Party of Switzerland/meta/color;"| Ernst Wetter
1940s
22 February 1940 rowspan="8" style="background:Template:Christian Democratic People's Party of Switzerland/meta/color;" | Enrico Celio
31 July 1940
10 December 1940 rowspan="7" style="background:Template:Swiss People's Party/meta/color;" | Eduard von Steiger rowspan="4" style="background:Template:Free Democratic Party of Switzerland/meta/color;"| Walther Stampfli
31 December 1940 rowspan="9" style="background:Template:Free Democratic Party of Switzerland/meta/color;"| Karl Kobelt
31 December 1943 rowspan="6" style="background:Template:Social Democratic Party of Switzerland/meta/color;" | Ernst Nobs
31 December 1944 rowspan="10" style="background:Template:Free Democratic Party of Switzerland/meta/color;"| Max Petitpierre
31 December 1947 rowspan="6" style="background:Template:Free Democratic Party of Switzerland/meta/color;"| Rodolphe Rubattel
1950s
15 October 1950 rowspan="3" style="background:Template:Christian Democratic People's Party of Switzerland/meta/color;" | Josef Escher
13 December 1951 rowspan="4" style="background:Template:Swiss People's Party/meta/color;" | Markus Feldmann
31 December 1951 rowspan="2" style="background:Template:Social Democratic Party of Switzerland/meta/color;" | Max Weber
9 December 1954 rowspan="3" style="background:Template:Christian Democratic People's Party of Switzerland/meta/color;" | Thomas Holenstein
31 December 1954 rowspan="2" style="background:Template:Free Democratic Party of Switzerland/meta/color;"| Hans Streuli rowspan="6" style="background:Template:Free Democratic Party of Switzerland/meta/color;"| Paul Chaudet rowspan="2" style="background:Template:Christian Democratic People's Party of Switzerland/meta/color;" | Giuseppe Lepori
11 December 1958 rowspan="4" style="background:Template:Swiss People's Party/meta/color;" | Friedrich Traugott Wahlen
1960s 31 December 1959[9] rowspan="6" style="background:Template:Social Democratic Party of Switzerland/meta/color;" | Willy Spühler rowspan="8" style="background:Template:Social Democratic Party of Switzerland/meta/color;" | Hans-Peter Tschudi rowspan="7" style="background:Template:Christian Democratic People's Party of Switzerland/meta/color;" | Ludwig von Moos rowspan="2" style="background:Template:Christian Democratic People's Party of Switzerland/meta/color;" | Jean Bourgknecht
30 June 1961 rowspan="4" style="background:Template:Free Democratic Party of Switzerland/meta/color;"| Hans Schaffner
30 September 1962 rowspan="7" style="background:Template:Christian Democratic People's Party of Switzerland/meta/color;" | Roger Bonvin
31 December 1965 rowspan="8" style="background:Template:Swiss People's Party/meta/color;" | Rudolf Gnägi
31 December 1966 rowspan="5" style="background:Template:Free Democratic Party of Switzerland/meta/color;"| Nello Celio
1970s 31 December 1969 rowspan="5" style="background:Template:Free Democratic Party of Switzerland/meta/color;"| Ernst Brugger
31 January 1970 rowspan="4" style="background:Template:Social Democratic Party of Switzerland/meta/color;" | Pierre Graber
31 December 1971 rowspan="9" style="background:Template:Christian Democratic People's Party of Switzerland/meta/color;" | Kurt Furgler
1 December 1973 rowspan="5" style="background:Template:Social Democratic Party of Switzerland/meta/color;" | Willi Ritschard
31 December 1973 rowspan="5" style="background:Template:Free Democratic Party of Switzerland/meta/color;"| Georges-André Chevallaz rowspan="3" style="background:Template:Christian Democratic People's Party of Switzerland/meta/color;" | Hans Hürlimann
31 January 1978 rowspan="7" style="background:Template:Social Democratic Party of Switzerland/meta/color;" | Pierre Aubert rowspan="2" style="background:Template:Free Democratic Party of Switzerland/meta/color;"| Fritz Honegger
1980s 31 December 1979 rowspan="6" style="background:Template:Swiss People's Party/meta/color;" | Leon Schlumpf
31 December 1982 rowspan="3" style="background:Template:Free Democratic Party of Switzerland/meta/color;"| Rudolf Friedrich rowspan="4" style="background:Template:Christian Democratic People's Party of Switzerland/meta/color;" | Alphons Egli
7 December 1983 rowspan="8" style="background:Template:Social Democratic Party of Switzerland/meta/color;" | Otto Stich
31 December 1983 rowspan="8" style="background:Template:Free Democratic Party of Switzerland/meta/color;"| Jean-Pascal Delamuraz
20 October 1984 rowspan="3" style="background:Template:Free Democratic Party of Switzerland/meta/color;"| Elisabeth Kopp
31 December 1986 rowspan="7" style="background:Template:Christian Democratic People's Party of Switzerland/meta/color;" | Arnold Koller rowspan="7" style="background:Template:Christian Democratic People's Party of Switzerland/meta/color;" | Flavio Cotti
31 December 1987 rowspan="8" style="background:Template:Swiss People's Party/meta/color;" | Adolf Ogi rowspan="3" style="background:Template:Social Democratic Party of Switzerland/meta/color;" | René Felber
12 January 1989 rowspan="9" style="background:Template:Free Democratic Party of Switzerland/meta/color;"| Kaspar Villiger
1990s 1 January 1990
1 April 1993[7] rowspan="6" style="background:Template:Social Democratic Party of Switzerland/meta/color;" | Ruth Dreifuss
1 November 1995 rowspan="12" style="background:Template:Social Democratic Party of Switzerland/meta/color;" | Moritz Leuenberger
1 April 1998 rowspan="10" style="background:Template:Free Democratic Party of Switzerland/meta/color;" | Pascal Couchepin
1 May 1999 rowspan="4" style="background:Template:Christian Democratic People's Party of Switzerland/meta/color;" | Ruth Metzler[6] rowspan="5" style="background:Template:Christian Democratic People's Party of Switzerland/meta/color;" | Joseph Deiss
2000s
1 January 2001 rowspan="5" style="background:Template:Swiss People's Party/meta/color;" | Samuel Schmid
1 January 2003 rowspan="8" style="background:Template:Social Democratic Party of Switzerland/meta/color;" | Micheline Calmy-Rey
1 January 2004[10] rowspan="2" style="background:Template:Swiss People's Party/meta/color;" | Christoph Blocher[6] rowspan="6" style="background:Template:Free Democratic Party of Switzerland/meta/color;"| Hans-Rudolf Merz
1 August 2006 rowspan="9" style="background:Template:Christian Democratic People's Party of Switzerland/meta/color;" | Doris Leuthard
1 January 2008 rowspan="1" style="background:Template:Swiss People's Party/meta/color;" | Eveline Widmer-Schlumpf
June 2008[11] rowspan="1" style="background:Template:Conservative Democratic Party of Switzerland/meta/color;" | Samuel Schmid rowspan="5" style="background:Template:Conservative Democratic Party of Switzerland/meta/color;" | Eveline Widmer-Schlumpf
1 January 2009 rowspan="6" style="background:Template:Swiss People's Party/meta/color;" | Ueli Maurer
1 November 2009 rowspan="5" style="background:Template:Free Democratic Party of Switzerland/meta/color;"| Didier Burkhalter
2010s 1 November 2010 rowspan="4" style="background:Template:Social Democratic Party of Switzerland/meta/color;" | Simonetta Sommaruga rowspan="4" style="background:Template:Free Democratic Party of Switzerland/meta/color;"| Johann Schneider-Ammann
1 January 2012 rowspan="3" style="background:Template:Social Democratic Party of Switzerland/meta/color;" | Alain Berset
1 January 2016 rowspan="2" style="background:Template:Swiss People's Party/meta/color;" | Guy Parmelin
25 May 2024

Timeline

Ignazio CassisGuy ParmelinAlain BersetJohann Schneider-AmmannSimonetta SommarugaDidier BurkhalterUeli MaurerEveline Widmer-SchlumpfDoris LeuthardHans-Rudolf MerzChristoph BlocherMicheline Calmy-ReySamuel SchmidJoseph DeissRuth Metzler-ArnoldPascal CouchepinMoritz LeuenbergerRuth DreifussKaspar VilligerAdolf OgiRené FelberFlavio CottiArnold KollerElisabeth KoppJean-Pascal DelamurazOtto StichRudolf FriedrichAlphons EgliLeon SchlumpfPierre AubertFritz HoneggerGeorges-André ChevallazHans HürlimannWilli RitschardKurt FurglerPierre GraberErnst BruggerNello CelioRudolf GnägiRoger BonvinHans SchaffnerHans-Peter TschudiLudwig von MoosWilly SpühlerJean BourgknechtFriedrich Traugott WahlenGiuseppe LeporiPaul ChaudetThomas HolensteinHans StreuliMax Weber (Swiss politician)Markus FeldmannJosef EscherRodolphe RubattelMax PetitpierreErnst NobsKarl KobeltEduard von SteigerWalther StampfliEnrico CelioErnst WetterHermann ObrechtPhilipp EtterJohannes BaumannAlbert Meyer (politician)Rudolf MingerMarcel Pilet-GolazHeinrich HäberlinJean-Marie MusyErnest ChuardKarl ScheurerRobert HaabGustave AdorFelix CalonderEdmund SchulthessCamille DecoppetLouis PerrierGiuseppe MottaArthur Hoffmann (politician)Josef Anton SchobingerLudwig ForrerMarc-Emile RuchetRobert ComtesseErnst BrennerEduard Müller (Swiss politician)Eugène RuffyAdrien LachenalJosef ZempEmil FreyWalter HauserAdolf DeucherLouis RuchonnetWilhelm Friedrich HertensteinSimeon BavierNuma DrozBernhard HammerFridolin AnderwertJoachim HeerEugène BorelJohann Jakob SchererPaul CérésoleVictor RuffyEmil WeltiJean-Jacques Challet-VenelKarl SchenkJakob DubsGiovanni Battista PiodaMelchior Josef Martin KnüselConstant FornerodJakob StämpfliWilhelm Matthias NaeffFriedrich Frey-HeroséStefano FransciniJosef MunzingerHenri DrueyUlrich OchsenbeinJonas Furrer

Notes

  1. ^ German: Schweizerischer Bundesrat, French: Conseil fédéral suisse, Italian: Consiglio federale svizzero, Romansh: Cussegl federal svizzer.
  2. ^ Swiss Federal Constitution / Bundesverfassung (BV) / Constitution fédérale (Cst.) / Costituzione federale (Cost.) of 7 February 1999, SR/RS 101 (E·D·F·I), art. 177 (E·D·F·I)
  3. ^ This is the prevailing reading of the relevant constitutional provision: Swiss Federal Constitution / Bundesverfassung (BV) / Constitution fédérale (Cst.) / Costituzione federale (Cost.) of 7 February 1999, SR/RS 101 (E·D·F·I), art. 175 (E·D·F·I)
  4. ^ Federal Council in German, French and Italian in the online Historical Dictionary of Switzerland.
  5. ^ Members are elected by federal parliament for a four-year term and traditionally re-elected. If the predecessor died in office, date of election, otherwise – if available – first day in office.
  6. ^ a b c d Not reelected (Jean-Jacques Challet-Venel, Ulrich Ochsenbein, Ruth Metzler, Christoph Blocher)
  7. ^ a b c d The office was previously declined by the first person elected:
  8. ^ a b Exceptionally low representation of the French and Italian speaking cantons, compared to the German speaking ones (1:6). In recent years, those were overrepresented 3:4 (proportional to their population). Currently, the 2:5 proportion is close to the population proportion.
  9. ^ Traditional "magic formula" of the Council's composition established: FDP/PRD 2, CVP/PDC 2, SPS/PSS 2, SVP/UDC 1.
  10. ^ Government composition changed for the first time since 1959: FDP/PRD 2, SPS/PSS 2, SVP/UDC 2, CVP/PDC 1.
  11. ^ During June 2008, parts of the SVP broke away and formed the new BDP. In this process, the two Federal Councillors that had been elected for the SVP became members of the BDP.

References

  • Federal Council in German, French and Italian in the online Historical Dictionary of Switzerland.
  • Swiss Federal Chancellery. "The Swiss Confederation: A brief guide 2007". Archived from the original on 14 May 2013. Retrieved 10 February 2008. {{cite web}}: Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)
  • Services of the Swiss Parliament. "Resultate der Wahlen des Bundesrats, der Bundeskanzler und des Generals" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 27 February 2008. Retrieved 10 February 2008.
  • Swiss Federal Chancellery. "Chronological index of Federal Councillors". Archived from the original on 2 January 2008. Retrieved 10 February 2008.
  • Swiss Federal Chancellery. "Members of the Federal Council who declined election". Archived from the original on 3 February 2008. Retrieved 10 February 2008.
  • Church, Clive H. (2004). The Politics and Government of Switzerland. Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 0-333-69277-2.

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