1935 in Switzerland

← 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:^[1]
  • Giuseppe Motta
  • Edmund Schulthess then Hermann Obrecht
  • Philipp Etter
  • Johannes Baumann
  • Marcel Pilet-Golaz
  • Albert Meyer
  • Rudolf Minger (President)^[2]

Events

• 23-26 January – The 1935 European Figure Skating Championships take place in St. Moritz.^[3]
• 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
• The Berne Trial, which began in 1933, ends^[4]
• The Eternal Mask, an Austrian-Swiss drama, is released^[5]
• 1935 Swiss federal election
• 1935 Swiss referendums

Births

• 5 February – Michel Steininger, fencer
• 5 March – Felix Walker, politician
• 24 March – Peter Bichsel, writer and journalist
• 12 April – Heinz Schneiter, footballer
• 16 August – Bruno Spoerri, musician
• 18 September – Dimitri, clown
• 19 September – Hansjörg Wyss, businessman and philanthropist
• 11 November –
  theologian (died 27 February 2004
  )
• Martina Deuchler, academic
• Peter Baumann, psychiatrist (died 2011)

Deaths

• 26 March – Eugene Zimmerman, Swiss-American cartoonist (born 1862)
• 19 September – Jules Cambon, French diplomat who died in Switzerland (born 1845)
• Benita von Falkenhayn, German baroness who served as a spy for the Second Polish Republic (born 1900)^[6]
• François De Loys, oil geologist who allegedly discovered a hitherto-unknown primate (born 1892
  )