Events during the year 1944 in Switzerland.

Incumbents

* Federal Council: ** Walther Stampfli (president) **

Eduard von Steiger Adolf Eduard von Steiger (; 2 July 1881 – 10 February 1962) was a Swiss lawyer and politician who served as the 51st President of the Swiss Confederation twice in 1945 and 1951 for Party of Farmers, Traders and Independents (presently known as ...

** Karl Kobelt **

Philipp Etter Philipp Etter (21 December 1891 – 23 December 1977) was a Swiss lawyer and attorney who most notably served as President of Switzerland four times between 1939 and 1953, whilst concurrently serving on the Federal Council (Switzerland) for the ...

** Enrico Celio **

Ernst Nobs Ernst Nobs (14 July 1886, in Seedorf, Bern – 15 March 1957) was a Swiss politician. Nobs was involved in the 1918 Swiss general strike. In 1919, a military court found him guilty of publishing subversive texts and sentenced him to four weeks i ...

** Marcel Pilet-Golaz (until December), then

Max Petitpierre Max Petitpierre (26 February 1899 – 25 March 1994) was a Swiss politician, jurist and member of the Swiss Federal Council, heading the Political Department (Ministry of Foreign Affairs) (1945-1961). He studied law at the universities of ...

Events

* 1 April –

Schaffhausen Schaffhausen (; ; ; ; ), historically known in English as Shaffhouse, is a list of towns in Switzerland, town with historic roots, a municipalities of Switzerland, municipality in northern Switzerland, and the capital of the canton of Schaffh ...

is accidentally bombed by the United States causing serious damage to the city and killing or wounding more than 100 people.

Births

* 6 January –

Rolf M. Zinkernagel Rolf Martin Zinkernagel AC (born 6 January 1944) is a professor of experimental immunology at the University of Zurich. Along with Peter C. Doherty, he shared the 1996 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for the discovery of how t ...

, immunologist * 20 May –

Sepp Benz Joseph "Josef" or "Sepp" Benz (20 May 1944 – 5 February 2021) was a Swiss bobsledder who competed from the mid-1970s to the early 1980s. Competing in two Winter Olympics, he won four medals with one gold (Two-man: 1980), two silvers (Four-man: ...

, bobsledder (died

2021 Like the year 2020, 2021 was also heavily defined by the COVID-19 pandemic, due to the emergence of multiple Variants of SARS-CoV-2, COVID-19 variants. The major global rollout of COVID-19 vaccines, which began at the end of 2020, continued ...

) * 2 September –

Claude Nicollier Claude Nicollier (born 2 September 1944) is the first astronaut from Switzerland. He has flown on four Space Shuttle missions. His first spaceflight ( STS-46) was in 1992, and his final spaceflight ( STS-103) was in 1999. He took part in two serv ...

, astronaut * 8 November – Andreas Sprecher, alpine skier

Deaths

* 22 April – Edmund Schulthess, politician (born

1868 Events January * January 2 – British Expedition to Abyssinia: Robert Napier, 1st Baron Napier of Magdala, Robert Napier leads an expedition to free captive British officials and missionaries. * January 3 – The 15-year-old Mutsu ...

)

References

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1940s in Switzerland