1938 in Switzerland

Events during the year 1938 in Switzerland.

Incumbents

 * Federal Council:
 * Johannes Baumann (president)
 * Giuseppe Motta
 * Hermann Obrecht
 * Philipp Etter
 * Marcel Pilet-Golaz
 * Albert Meyer (until December), then Ernst Wetter
 * Rudolf Minger

Events

 * The 1938 European Figure Skating Championships take place in St. Moritz.

Births

 * 2 August – Yvonne Rüegg, alpine skier
 * 4 October – Kurt Wüthrich, chemist

Deaths

 * 13 May – Charles Édouard Guillaume, physicist (born 1861)
 * 15 June – Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, German painter (born 1880 in Germany)