List of Presidents of the Swiss Confederation
This list lists all Swiss President since the state was founded in 1848. Applies the seniority. You will only be President, if there have already been the Federal Council colleagues.
18 cabinet ministers never held the office of President: Ulrich Ochsenbein, Stefano Franscini, Giovanni Battista Pioda, Victor Ruffy, Jean -Jacques Challet - Venel, Eugène Borel, Fridolin Anderwert, Josef Anton Schobinger, Louis Perrier, Hermann Obrecht, Max Weber, Joseph Escher Giuseppe Lepori, Jean Bourgknecht, Rudolf Friedrich, Elisabeth Kopp, Ruth Metzler and Christoph Blocher.
3 current Federal Councillors were not German President: Simonetta Sommaruga, Johann Schneider -Ammann, Alain Berset and.
List of Swiss President
1848-1874
1875-1899
1900-1924
1925-1949
1950-1974
1975-1999
Since 2000
- 2000: Adolf Ogi ( 2)
- 2001: Moritz Leuenberger
- 2002: Kaspar Villiger ( 2)
- 2003: Pascal Couchepin
- 2004: Joseph Deiss
- 2005: Samuel Schmid
- 2006: Moritz Leuenberger ( 2)
- 2007: Micheline Calmy -Rey
- 2008: Pascal Couchepin ( 2)
- 2009: Hans -Rudolf Merz
- 2010: Doris Leuthard
- 2011: Micheline Calmy -Rey ( 2)
- 2012: Eveline Widmer -Schlumpf
- 2013: Ueli Maurer
- 2014: Didier Burkhalter
- 2015: Simonetta Sommaruga