← 1936 1935 1934 1937 in Switzerland → 1938 1939 1940
Decades:	1910s 1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s
See also:	History of Switzerland Timeline of Swiss history List of years in Switzerland

The following is a list of events, births, and deaths in 1937 in Switzerland.

Incumbents

• Federal Council:
  • Giuseppe Motta
  • Hermann Obrecht
  • Philipp Etter
  • Johannes Baumann (President)
  • Marcel Pilet-Golaz
  • Albert Meyer
  • Rudolf Minger

Tournaments

• 1936–37 Nationalliga, won by FC Lugano
• 1937 Swiss Grand Prix, won by Rudolf Caracciola
• 1937–38 Nationalliga, won by Grasshopper Club Zürich

Establishments

Events by month

Other

• Kleine Scheidegg, a Swiss drama, is published
• An Answer from the Silence, a novel by Max Frisch, is published in Swiss
• Allianz, a group of Swiss artists, is founded

Births

• Attilio Moresi, a cyclist
• Sandro del Prete, a painter
• 3 February – Billy Meier, prophet
• 24 February – Art Furrer, a restaurateur
• 9 March – Niele Toroni, a painter
• 18 May – Peter Bolliger, a rower
• 21 May – Hansjörg Hirschbühl, a bobsleigher
• 2 June – Pierre Favre, a musician
• 30 June – Fritz Egli, a motorcycle racer
• 6 July – Joseph Payne, a musician
• 12 July - Fritz Kehl, a Swiss football (association football) defender
• 21 December – Hansruedi Führer, a football (association football) defender

Deaths

• 7 April – Hans Steffen, a German geographer who died in Switzerland
• 9 May – Walter Mittelholzer, a pilot, photographer, and travel writer
• 2 September – Pierre de Coubertin, French historian and founder of the International Olympic Committee^[1]

References