1935 in Switzerland

Incumbents

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

  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
• 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
• 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
• Martina Deuchler, an academic
• Peter Baumann, a psychiatrist

  Deaths

• March 26-Eugene Zimmerman, a Swiss-American cartoonist
• September 19-Jules Cambon, a French diplomat who died in Switzerland
• Benita von Falkenhayn, a German baroness who served as a spy for the Second Polish Republic
• François De Loys, an oil geologist who allegedly discovered a hitherto-unknown primate