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]
• 4 January – Daniel Lüönd [de], musician (b. 1959).^[4]
• 5 January – Beat Junker [de], historian (born 1928)^[5]
• 10 January – Daniel Müller [de], politician (born 1928)^[6]
• 18 January – Bernhard Böschenstein [de], literary scholar (born 1931)^[7]
• 29 January – Otto Schubiger, ice hockey player (born 1925)^[8]
• 15 February – Bruno Ganz, actor (Wings of Desire, Downfall, The Manchurian Candidate) (born 1941)^[9]
• 20 April – Karl Grob, footballer (born 1946)^[10]

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. "Lüönd-Betschart Daniel". mosibuebe.ch (in German). Retrieved 23 January 2019.
5. "Beat Junker". todesanzeigenportal.ch (in German). Retrieved 23 January 2019.
6. "Alt Nationalrat Daniel Müller ist im Alter von 91 Jahren verstorben". Federal Assembly (in German). Retrieved 23 January 2019.
7. "Der bedeutende Genfer Germanist Bernhard Böschenstein ist gestorben". nzz.ch (in German). Retrieved 23 January 2019.
8. Nachruf Auf Otto Schubiger Archived 2019-01-30 at the Wayback Machine (in German)
9. "Bruno Ganz, who played Hitler in Downfall, dies aged 77". BBC News. BBC. 16 February 2019.
10. Karl Grob mit 72 Jahren verstorben (in German)