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
- 11 February – Edith Mathis, operatic soprano (d. 2025)
- 27 March – Hansjörg Schneider, novelist
- 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)
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