Edmund Schulthess

He was born on 2 March 1868 in Villnachern to Edmund Schulthess (Landwirt, 4 January 1826 - 10 April 1906) and wife (m. 15 May 1851) Cornelia Brigitta Marth (22 June 1828 - 22 February 1896).{{cite book |last1=Altermatt |first1=Urs |title=Die Schweizer Bundesräte: ein biographisches Lexikon |date=1991 |publisher=Huber |isbn=978-3-7608-0702-7 |page=321 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Mb8lAAAAMAAJ&q=Edmund+Schulthess+%E2%80%9E2.+M%C3%A4rz+1868%E2%80%9C |access-date=10 July 2024 |language=de}} He was the brother of internist and pediatrician Wilhelm Schulthess (1855–1917) and great-great-grandnephew of educator and philanthropist Anna Pestalozzi-Schulthess and born into the Schulthess family, a wealthy and renowned merchant family which ran a bakery and Konditorei (confectionery) at the Rüdenplatz in Zürich.{{Cite book|last=Silber|first=Käte|title=Anna Pestalozzi-Schultheß und der Frauenkreis um Pestalozzi|publisher=De Gruyter|year=1932|isbn=9783111564067|location=Berlin and Leipzig|doi=10.1515/9783111564067}}

He was elected to the Swiss Federal Council on 17 July 1912{{cite web |title=Edmund Schulthess |url=https://hls-dhs-dss.ch/de/articles/003791/2011-08-19/ |website=hls-dhs-dss.ch |access-date=10 July 2024}} and handed over office on 15 April 1935.{{cite book |last1=Böschenstein |first1=Hermann |title=Bundesrat Obrecht, 1882-1940 |date=1981 |publisher=Vogt-Schild |page=156 |isbn=978-3-85962-054-4 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=A6onAQAAMAAJ&q=Edmund+Schulthess+%2215.+April+1935%22 |access-date=10 July 2024}} He was affiliated to the Free Democratic Party.{{cite web |title=Edmund Schulthess |url=https://www.admin.ch/gov/en/start/federal-council/members-of-the-federal-council/edmund-schulthess.html |website=www.admin.ch |access-date=10 July 2024 |language=en}} During his time in office he held the following departments:

• Department of Trade, Industry and Agriculture (1912–1914)
• Department of Economic Affairs (1915–1935)

He was President of the Swiss Confederation four times, in 1917,{{cite book |last1=Lodge |first1=Henry Cabot |title=The History of Nations |date=1928 |publisher=P.F.Collier |page=597 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Jqc-AAAAYAAJ&dq=Edmund+Schulthess+%221917%22&pg=PA597 |access-date=10 July 2024 |language=en}} 1921,{{cite book |title=Staats-kalender der Schweizerischen eidgenossenschaft: Annuaire de la Confédération suisse. Annuario della Confederazione svizzera |date=1921 |publisher=Cancelleria federale |page=12 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7HE6AQAAMAAJ&dq=Edmund+Schulthess+%221921%22+Pr%C3%A4sident&pg=PA12 |access-date=10 July 2024 |language=de}} 1928 and 1933.{{cite web |title=Edmund Schulthess |url=https://www.fdp.ch/personen/bundesraete/show/edmund-schulthess |website=FDP |access-date=10 July 2024 |language=de}}

He died on 22 April 1944 in Bern.

He married Marguerite Jeanne Disqué (born c. 1880) and had a daughter Nelly Marguerite Jeanne Schulthess, born in Switzerland on 13 August 1903. Like her parents, she married at the Church of the Holy Trinity in Bern on 30 November 1933. She and her Portuguese husband (Vasco Francisco Caetano de Castro Coutinho de Quevedo Pessanha, born in Lisbon, Coração de Jesus, on 3 July 1909, great-grandson of the 1st Baron of the Quinta do Ferro and 1st Viscount of the Quinta do Ferro and of the 1st Viscount of Portalegre and great-great-grandson of the 1st Viscount of Castelo Branco and of the 1st Baron of Oleiros and 1st Viscount of Oleiros) continued the family line.

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• [https://www.historyofsocialsecurity.ch/stakeholders/federal-councilors/schulthess-edmund/?L=3 Edmund Schulhess] in [https://www.historyofsocialsecurity.ch/home/ History of Social Security in Switzerland]
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