Albert Meyer (13 March 1870 – 22 October 1953) was a Swiss politician, editor of

Neue Zürcher Zeitung The (''NZZ''; "New Newspaper of Zurich") is German language daily newspaper, published by NZZ Mediengruppe in Zurich. The paper was founded in 1780. It has a reputation as a high-quality newspaper, as the German Swiss newspaper of record ...

(1915-1930) and member of the

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(1929–1938). He was elected to the

on 12 December 1929 and handed over office on 31 December 1938. He was affiliated to the

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. During his time in office he held the

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from 1930 to 1934 and the Department of Finance from 1934 to 1938, and was President of the Confederation in 1936.

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