1962 in Switzerland

Government on  January 1962 [ edit | edit the code ]

 * Federal Council
 * Paul Chaudet PRD, President of the Confederation
 * Willy Spühler PSS, vice president of the Confederation
 * Friedrich Traugott Wahlen UDC ,
 * Hans Schaffner PRD
 * Ludwig von Moos PDC ,
 * Jean Bourgknecht PDC
 * Hans-Peter Tschudi PSS

January [ edit | edit the code ]
Monday January 15 Tuesday January 16 Thursday January 18 Thursday January 25
 * The price of gasoline is increased by five cents.
 * Death in Basel, at the age of 77 years, writer Emanuel Stickelberger.
 * Reto Delnon hockey player, coach of the national team ice hockey, was sacked because of his membership in the Swiss Labour Party .
 * Death in a train between Frasne and Vallorbe architect Jean Tschumi, 58 years old.

February [ edit | edit the code ]
Sunday, February 4 Saturday February 10 Wednesday February 14
 * Swiss mountaineers Paul Etter and Hilti von Allmen pass the first winter ascent of the north face of the Matterhorn ( VS ).
 * For the first time in its history, the Visp HC becomes Swiss champion hockey-on-ice.
 * Death, at the age of 81, the former Federal Councillor Eduard von Steiger
 * An avalanche buried six skiers Leysin ( VD ).

March [ edit | edit the code ]
Sunday, March 4 Saturday, March 25
 * Myrian Weber-Perret and Jacques-René Fiechter based cultural Alliance Romande.
 * Deaths Chexbres ( VD ), at the age of 78, the physicist Auguste Piccard .

April [ edit | edit the code ]
Sunday  April Thursday, April 5 Saturday, April 14
 * Federal votes. The people rejected by 537,138 not (65.2%) against 286 895 yes (34.8%), the People's Initiative "for the prohibition of atomic weapons"
 * The two teams who dig the Great St Bernard Tunnel operate their junction by defeating the last wall that separates them.
 * Death in Lausanne, at the age of 71, the publisher Henry Louis Mermod .

Mai [ edit | edit the code ]
Sunday, May 6 Thursday, May 10 Saturday, May 12 Saturday, May 19 Sunday, May 27 Wednesday May 30
 * Cantonal elections in Bern . Fritz Giovanoli ( PSS ), Virgil Monk ( PRD ), Dewet Buri ( UDC ), Rudolf Gnägi ( UDC ), Robert Bauder ( PRD ), Henri Huber ( PSS ), Fritz Moser ( UDC ), Hans Tschumi ( UDC ) and Erwin Schneider ( PSS ) are elected to the Council of State at the  round.
 * The Servette FC wins for the fifth time in its history, the title of Swiss champion football.
 * Commissioning, over a length of 8 km, the first section of the highway A1 to Grauholz near Bern .
 * Death in Geneva at the age of 94, the anthropologist Eugene Pittard .
 * Deaths Sanary-sur-Mer Var, at the age of 85 years, writer Benjamin Vallotton.
 * Federal votes. The people approve, by 442 559 yes (79.1%) against 116,856 non (20.9%), the constitutional article on the protection of nature and landscape.
 * Federal votes. The people rejected by 381,229 not (68.3%) against 176 737 yes (31.7%), the amendment of the law on compensation of presence and movement of members of the National Council and Assembly Committees Federal.
 * Death in Lausanne, at the age of 83, of Pierre Gilliard , tutor of Russian grand duchesses.

June [ edit | edit the code ]
Saturday, June 2 Sunday June 3 Friday, June 8 Monday, June 18 Wednesday, June 20
 * The Valais government ordered the helicopter pilots Hermann Geiger and Fernand Martignoni destroy, using herbicides, vines planted illegally in Saxon , Fully , Saillon and Vétroz . Some growers retaliated by pulling on helicopters.
 * 300,000 people participate in the French-speaking Protestant Rally stage Pontaise in Lausanne .
 * Deaths Rüschlikon ( ZH ), age 73, of Gottlieb Duttweiler, founder of Migros .
 * Death in Zurich at the age of 83, the composer Volkmar Andreae.
 * The German Hans Junkermann won the Tour de Suisse cycling

July [ edit | edit the code ]
Sunday  July Friday, July 20,
 * The Federal Council recognizes the independence of Rwanda, as well as the independence of Burundi .
 * Inauguration of the dam Luzzone, in the Val Blenio ( TI ).

August [ edit | edit the code ]
Thursday August 9 Friday, August 24 Saturday August 25 Tuesday, August 28
 * Death in Montagnola ( TI ) of the poet Hermann Hesse
 * Deaths Vevey, at the age of 82, the watercolorist Louis-René Moilliet.
 * Three Venoms crash to the Furka Pass . The three pilots were killed.
 * Deaths Rolle ( VD ), at the age of 73 years, writer and journalist Edmond Privat .

September [ edit | edit the code ]
Monday, September 3 Thursday, September 27 Friday, September 28
 * Resignation for health reasons, Federal Councillor Jean Bourgknecht .
 * Election to the Federal Council of Roger Bonvin ( PDC , VS ).
 * First issue of Femina magazine, replacing Week Women.

October [ edit | edit the code ]
Tuesday, October 9 Wednesday October 31
 * The Federal Council recognizes the independence of Uganda .
 * Deaths Locarno, at the age of 66, the former Federal Councillor Thomas Holenstein .

November [ edit | edit the code ]
Sunday, November 4
 * Federal votes. The people approve, by 331 059 yes (63.7%) against 188,731 not (36.3%), the constitutional amendment on the number of seats in the National Council .

December [ edit | edit the code ]
Monday, December 10
 * Inauguration of the Grand Théâtre in Geneva .
 * The Federal Parliament approved the membership in the Council of Europe which the Confederation had hitherto only observer status.