List of Presidents of the National Council of Switzerland
List of Presidents of the National Council
² resigned per March 1, 2005

List of Presidents of the National Council of Switzerland

Section Title: List of Presidents of the National Council
Table Section Text: ² resigned per March 1, 2005

Year	Name	Canton

1848	Ulrich Ochsenbein	BE

1848/49	Jakob Robert Steiger	LU

1849/50	Alfred Escher	ZH

1850/51	Johann Konrad Kern	TG

1851	Jakob Stämpfli	BE

1851/52	Johann Trog	SO

1852/53	Johann M. Hungerbühler	SG

1853/54	Giovanni Battista Pioda	TI

1854	Jakob Dubs	ZH

1854/55	Casimir Pfyffer	LU

1855/56	Eduard Eugen Blösch	BE

1856	Friedrich Siegfried	AG

1856	Jules Martin	VD

1856/57	Alfred Escher	ZH

1857	Paul Migy	BE

1857/58	Augustin Keller	AG

1858/59	Johann Jakob Stehlin	BS

1859/60	Friedrich Peyer im Hof	SH

1860	Johann Baptist Weder	SG

1860/61	Eduard Dapples	VD

1861/62	Karl Karrer	BE

1862/63	Alfred Escher	ZH

1863	Joachim Heer	GL

1863/64	Victor Ruffy	VD

1864/65	Gottlieb Jäger	AG

1865/66	Andreas Rudolf von Planta	GR

1866	Niklaus Niggeler	BE

1866/67	Jules Philippin	NE

1867/68	Johann Jakob Stehlin	BS

1868/69	Simon Kaiser	SO

1869	Louis Ruchonnet	VD

1869/70	Joachim Heer	GL

1870/71	Fridolin Anderwert	TG

1871/72	Rudolf Brunner	BE

1872	Charles Friderich	GE

1872/73	Daniel Wirth-Sand	SG

1873/74	Gottlieb Ziegler	ZH

1874	Carl Feer-Herzog	AG

1874/75	Louis Ruchonnet	VD

1875	Jakob Stämpfli	BE

1875/76	Emil Frey	BL

1876/77	Arnold Otto Aepli	SG

1877/78	Eduard Marti	BE

1878	Jules Philippin	NE

1878/79	Melchior Römer	ZH

1879/80	Arnold Künzli	AG

1880/81	Karl Burckhardt	BS

1881	Antoine Vessaz	VD

1881/82	Karl Zyro	BE

1882/83	Adolf Deucher	TG

1883/84	Simon Kaiser	SO

1884	Georges Favon	GE

1884/85	Johannes Stössel	ZH

1885/86	Andrea Bezzola	GR

1886/87	Henri Morel	NE

1887	Josef Zemp	LU

1887/88	Erwin Kurz	AG

1888/89	Eugène Ruffy	VD

1889/90	Heinrich Häberlin	TG

1890	August Suter	SG

1890/91	Eduard Müller	BE

1891/92	Adrien Lachenal	GE

1892/93	Albert Brosi	SO

1893	Ludwig Forrer	ZH

1893/94	Robert Comtesse	NE

1894/95	Ernst Brenner	BS

1895/96	Jakob Huldreich Bachmann	TG

1896	Joseph Stockmar	BE

1896	Rudolf Gallati	GL

1896/97	Johann Josef Keel	SG

1897/98	Robert Grieshaber	SH

1898/99	Adrien Thélin	VD

1899	Hermann Heller	LU

1899/00	Rudolf Geilinger	ZH

1900/01	Fritz Bühlmann	BE

1901/02	Gustave Ador	GE

1902	Ulrich Meister	ZH

1902	Clemens Iten	ZG

1902/03	Konrad Zschokke	AG

1903/04	Louis Martin	NE

1904/05	Josef Anton Schobinger	LU

1905/06	Johann Hirter	BE

1906/07	Camille Decoppet	VD

1907/08	Paul Speiser	BS

1908/09	Adolf Germann	TG

1909/10	Virgile Rossel	BE

1910/11	Josef Kuntschen	VS

1911/12	Karl Emil Wild	SG

1912/13	Carl Spahn	SH

1913/14	Alfred von Planta	GR

1914/15	Felix Bonjour	VD

1915/16	Arthur Eugster	AR

1916/17	Anton Büeler	SZ

1917/18	Henri Calame	NE

1918/19	Heinrich Häberlin	TG

1919/20	Eduard Blumer	GL

1920/21	Evaristo Garbani-Nerini	TI

1921/22	Emil Klöti	ZH

1922/23	Johann Jenny	BE

1923/24	Raymond Evéquoz	VS

1924/25	Albert Mächler	SG

1925/26	Emil Hofmann	TG

1926/27	Paul Maillefer	VD

1927/28	Rudolf Minger	BE

1928/29	Heinrich Walther	LU

1929/30	Ernest-Paul Graber	NE

1930/31	Hans Sträuli	ZH

1931/32	Heinrich Roman Abt	AG

1932/33	Ruggero Dollfus	TI

1933/34	Johannes Huber	SG

1934/35	Hermann Schüpbach	BE

1935/36	Rudolf Reichling	ZH

1936/37	Maurice Troillet	VS

1937/38	Fritz Hauser	BS

1938/39	Henry Vallotton	VD

1939/40	Hans Stähli	BE

1940/41	Emil Nietlispach	AG

1941/42	Charles Rosselet	GE

1942/43	Emil Keller	AG

1943/44	Paul Gysler	ZH

1944/45	Pierre Aeby	FR

1945/46	Robert Grimm	BE

1946/47	Max Wey	LU

1947/48	Albert Picot	GE

1948/49	Josef Escher	VS

1949/50	Jacques Schmid	SO

1950/51	Aleardo Pini	TI

1951/52	Karl Renold	AG

1952/53	Thomas Holenstein	SG

1953/54	Henri Perret	NE

1954/55	Hermann Häberlin	ZH

1955/56	Paul Burgdorfer	BE

1956/57	Joseph Condrau	GR

1957/58	Robert Bratschi	BE

1958/59	Eugen Dietschi	BS

1959/60	Gaston Clottu	NE

1960/61	Emil Duft	ZH

1961/62	Walther Bringolf	SH

1962/63	André Guinand	GE

1963/64	Otto Hess	TG

1964/65	Franz Josef Kurmann	LU

1965/66	Pierre Graber	VD

1966/67	Alfred Schaller	BS

1967/68	Hans Conzett	ZH

1968/69	Max Aebischer	FR

1969/70	Mathias Eggenberger	SG

1970/71	Alfred Weber	UR

1971/72	William Vontobel	ZH

1972/73	Enrico Franzoni	TI

1973/74	Anton Muheim	LU

1974/75	Simon Kohler	BE

1975/76	Rudolf Etter	BE

1976/77	Hans Wyer	VS

1977	Elisabeth Blunschy	SZ

1977/78	Alfred Bussey	VD

1978/79	Luigi Generali	TI

1979/80	Hanspeter Fischer	TG

1980/81	Laurent Butty	FR

1981/82	Hedi Lang	ZH

1982/83	Franz Eng	SO

1983/84	André Gautier	GE

1984/85	Arnold Koller	AI

1985/86	Martin Bundi	GR

1986/87	Jean-Jacques Cevey	VD

1987/88	Rudolf Reichling	ZH

1988/89	Josef Iten	NW

1989/90	Victor Ruffy	VD

1990/91	Ulrich Bremi	ZH

1991/92	Hans-Rudolf Nebiker	BL

1992/93	Paul Schmidhalter	VS

1993/94	Gret Haller	BE

1994/95	Claude Frey	NE

1995/96	Jean-François Leuba	VD

1996/97	Judith Stamm	LU

1997/98	Ernst Leuenberger	SO

1998/99	Trix Heberlein	ZH

1999/2000	Hanspeter Seiler	BE

2000/01	Peter Hess	ZG

2001/02	Liliane Maury Pasquier	GE

2002/03	Yves Christen	VD

2003/04	Max Binder	ZH

2004/05 ²	Jean-Philippe Maitre	GE

2005	Thérèse Meyer	FR

2005/06	Claude Janiak	BL

2006/07	Christine Egerszegi	AG

2007/08	André Bugnon	VD

2008/09	Chiara Simoneschi-Cortesi	TI

2009/10	Pascale Bruderer	AG

2010/11	Jean-René Germanier	VS

2011/12	Hansjörg Walter	TG

2012/13	Maya Graf	BL

2013/14	Ruedi Lustenberger	LU

2014/15	Stéphane Rossini	VS

2015/16	Christa Markwalder	BE

2016/17	Jürg Stahl	ZH

2017/18	Dominique de Buman	FR

2018/19	Marina Carobbio Guscetti	TI

Sentence(s)

In 2016, Stahl was elected to succeed Christa Markwalder as President of the National Council.

final_sentence: In 2016, Stahl was elected to succeed Christa Markwalder as President of the National Council.