Editing Edmund Schulthess

{{Short description|Swiss politician}}
[[File:Edmund Schulthess (2 March 1868, Villnachern - 22 April 1944, Bern) circa 1916.jpg|thumb|Edmund Schulthess, {{circa|1916}}]]
'''Edmund Schulthess''' (2 March 1868 – 22 April 1944) was a Swiss politician and member of the [[Swiss Federal Council]] (1912–1935).

==Biography==
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).<ref>{{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}}</ref> 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 store|confectionery]]) at the ''Rüdenplatz'' in [[Zürich]].<ref>{{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}}</ref>

He was elected to the [[Swiss Federal Council]] on 17 July 1912<ref>{{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}}</ref> and handed over office on 15 April 1935.<ref>{{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}}</ref> He was affiliated to the [[Free Democratic Party of Switzerland|Free Democratic Party]].<ref>{{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}}</ref> During his time in office he held the following departments: 
* [[Department of Trade, Industry and Agriculture]] (1912–1914)
* [[Federal Department of Economic Affairs|Department of Economic Affairs]] (1915–1935)

He was [[President of the Swiss Confederation]] four times, in 1917,<ref>{{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}}</ref> 1921,<ref>{{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}}</ref> 1928 and 1933.<ref name="FDP">{{cite web |title=Edmund Schulthess |url=https://www.fdp.ch/personen/bundesraete/show/edmund-schulthess |website=FDP |access-date=10 July 2024 |language=de}}</ref>

He died on 22 April 1944 in Bern.<ref name="FDP" />

==Family==
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.

==References==
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==External links==
* {{HDS|3791}}
*[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]
* {{PM20|FID=pe/016104}}

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