2019 in Switzerland

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Events in the year 2019 in Switzerland.

Incumbents

• President of the Swiss Confederation: Ueli Maurer
• President of the National Council: Marina Carobbio Guscetti
• President of the Swiss Council of States: Jean-René Fournier

Events

• 22 September — A 'funeral' and mourning ceremony was held for the Pizol glacier which has disappeared due to rising temperatures.^[1]
• 20 October – Scheduled date for the 2019 Swiss federal election
• 25 November – present 2019 Sri Lankan Swiss embassy controversy.^[2]

Sports

• 1 January – Stage 3 of 2018–19 Tour de Ski was held in Val Müstair

• 19 to 25 August – Scheduled date for the 2019 BWF World Championships, to be held in Basel
• 7 to 15 December – Scheduled date for the 2019 Women's World Floorball Championships, to be held in Neuchâtel

Deaths

Bruno Ganz

• 1 January – Pio Corradi [de], photographer (born 1940)^[3]
• 3 January – Jean Revillard, photojournalist (born 1967)^[4]
• 4 January – Daniel Lüönd [de], musician (born 1959).^[5]
• 5 January – Beat Junker [de], historian (born 1928)^[6]
• 10 January – Daniel Müller [de], politician (born 1928)^[7]
• 18 January – Bernhard Böschenstein [de], literary scholar (born 1931)^[8]
• 29 January – Otto Schubiger, ice hockey player (born 1925)^[9]
• 15 February – Bruno Ganz, actor (Wings of Desire, Downfall, The Manchurian Candidate) (born 1941)^[10]
• 20 February – Claude Goretta, television producer and film director (born 1929)^[11]
• 14 March – Kurt Armbruster, footballer (born 1934)^[12]
• 18 April – Ivo Frosio, footballer (born 1930)
• 20 April – Karl Grob, footballer (born 1946)^[13]
• 7 June – Max Bösiger, boxer (born 1933)
• 1 August – Annemarie Huber-Hotz, politician (born 1948)^[14]
• 15 September – Eva Haldimann, literary critic and translator (born 1927)^[15]
• 2 November – Marie Laforêt, singer and actress (born 1939)^[16]

References

1. Arnaud Siad; Amy Woodyatt (Sep 22, 2019). "Hundreds mourn 'dead' glacier at funeral in Switzerland". CNN. Retrieved Sep 22, 2019.
2. "Swiss condemn 'attack' on Sri Lanka embassy worker". 2019-11-27. Retrieved 2019-12-05.
3. "Er prägte das Bild der Schweitz". tagesanzeiger.ch (in German). Retrieved 23 January 2019.
4. "Jean Revillard, mort d'un éclaireur - Le Temps" (in French). 2019-01-05. ISSN 1423-3967. Retrieved 2025-12-25.
5. "Lüönd-Betschart Daniel". mosibuebe.ch (in German). Retrieved 23 January 2019.
6. "Beat Junker". todesanzeigenportal.ch (in German). Retrieved 23 January 2019.
7. "Alt Nationalrat Daniel Müller ist im Alter von 91 Jahren verstorben". Federal Assembly (in German). Retrieved 23 January 2019.
8. "Der bedeutende Genfer Germanist Bernhard Böschenstein ist gestorben". nzz.ch (in German). Retrieved 23 January 2019.
9. Nachruf Auf Otto Schubiger Archived 2019-01-30 at the Wayback Machine (in German)
10. "Bruno Ganz, who played Hitler in Downfall, dies aged 77". BBC News. BBC. 16 February 2019.
11. "Le cinéaste suisse Claude Goretta est mort" (in French). 2019-02-21. Retrieved 2025-12-25.
12. Dominik, Erb. "Der SFV trauert um Kurt Armbruster". www.football.ch (in German). Retrieved 2025-12-25.
13. Karl Grob mit 72 Jahren verstorben (in German)
14. Gerny, Daniel (2019-08-03). "Annemarie Huber-Hotz: Tod einer prägenden Bundeskanzlerin". Neue Zürcher Zeitung (in German). Retrieved 2025-12-25.
15. hommages.ch, un site d'Edipresse Publications SA. "Hommages - Pour que son souvenir demeure: Eva HALDIMANN ROMÁN". hommages.ch. Archived from the original on 2019-09-21. Retrieved 2025-12-25.
16. "Marie Laforêt, la « Fille aux yeux d'or », est morte" (in French). 2019-11-03. Retrieved 2025-12-25.