Federal Department of Home Affairs (Switzerland)

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The Federal Department of Home Affairs^[1] (German: Eidgenössisches Departement des Innern; French: Département fédéral de l'intérieur; Italian: Dipartimento Federale dell'Interno) is the Swiss federal interior ministry. The department is headed by a member of the Swiss Federal Council.

[edit] List of heads of the department

When	Member of the Swiss Federal Council
1848-1857	Stefano Franscini
1857-1863	Giovanni Battista Pioda
1864	Karl Schenk
1865	Jakob Dubs
1866-1870	Karl Schenk
1871-1872	Jakob Dubs
1872-1873	Karl Schenk
1874-1875	Melchior Josef Martin Knüsel
1876-1878	Numa Droz
1879-1884	Karl Schenk
1885	Adolf Deucher
1886-1895	Karl Schenk
1895-1897	Eugène Ruffy
1898-1899	Adrien Lachenal
1900-1903	Marc-Emile Ruchet
1904-1905	Ludwig Forrer
1906-1910	Marc-Emile Ruchet
1911	Josef Anton Schobinger
1912	Marc-Emile Ruchet
1912	Camille Decoppet
1913	Louis Perrier
1913-1917	Felix Calonder
1918-1919	Gustave Ador
1920-1928	Ernest Chuard
1929	Marcel Pilet-Golaz
1930-1934	Albert Meyer
1934-1959	Philipp Etter
1960-1973	Hans-Peter Tschudi
1974-1982	Hans Hürlimann
1983-1986	Alphons Egli
1987-1993	Flavio Cotti
1994-2002	Ruth Dreifuss
Since 2003	Pascal Couchepin

[edit] Note on translation

^ The official name of the department in all three of Switzerland's official languages translates literally as Federal Department of the Interior. However, the Swiss Government uses the conventional translation Federal Department of Home Affairs, which has therefore been used as the title of this article.