Federal Department of Finance

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The Federal Department of Finance (German: Eidgenössisches Finanzdepartement (EFD), French: Département fédéral des finances) is one of the seven departments of the Swiss federal government. The department is headed by a member of the Swiss Federal Council, Switzerland's finance minister.

Initially, in 1848, the department was called "Department of Finance", then, from 1873 "Department of Finance and Customs", until it received its present designation in 1978.

List of heads of the department

1848-1850: Josef Munzinger
1851 only: Henri Druey
1852 only: Josef Munzinger
1853-1855: Henri Druey
1855-1856: Melchior Josef Martin Knüsel
1857-1858: Jakob Stämpfli
1859-1861: Constant Fornerod
1862-1863: Melchior Josef Martin Knüsel
1864-1867: Jean-Jacques Challet-Venel
1868 only: Victor Ruffy
1869 only: Jean-Jacques Challet-Venel
1870-1871: Paul Cérésole
1872 only: Karl Schenk
1872-1873: Johann Jakob Scherer
1873-1875: Wilhelm Matthias Naeff
1876-1878: Bernhard Hammer
1879 only: Simeon Bavier
1880-1890: Bernhard Hammer
1891-1899: Walter Hauser
1900 only: Robert Comtesse
1901-1902: Walter Hauser
1903 only: Robert Comtesse
1904 only: Marc-Emile Ruchet
1905-1909: Robert Comtesse
1910 only: Josef Anton Schobinger
1911 only: Robert Comtesse
1912-1919: Giuseppe Motta
1920-1934: Jean-Marie Musy
1934-1938: Albert Meyer
1939-1943: Ernst Wetter
1944-1951: Ernst Nobs
1952-1954: Max Weber
1954-1959: Hans Streuli
1960-1962: Jean Bourgknecht
1962-1968: Roger Bonvin
1968-1973: Nello Celio
1974-1979: Georges-André Chevallaz
1980-1983: Willy Ritschard
1984-1995: Otto Stich
1996-2003: Kaspar Villiger
Since 2004: Hans-Rudolf Merz

External links

[Federal Department of Finance]

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