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13 unusual facts about Swiss people


Alena Gerber

Alena Gerber became particularly famous in Switzerland when she was at the center of a xenophobic controversy between the conservative Swiss People's Party (Schweizerische Volkspartei) and German guest workers.

Alexandre Dubach

Alexandre Dubach is a Swiss violinist.

Bergheim, Haut-Rhin

The majority of people who immigrated at that times were Swiss, German, Hungarian, Austrian, or Romanian.

Christophe Hurni

Christophe Hurni (born 1 December 1962, Switzerland) is a Swiss racing driver.

Dennis Saikkonen

Dennis Saikkonen (born November 27, 1992) is a Swedish-Finnish-Swiss professional ice hockey goaltender who is currently a prospect within the ZSC Lions organization.

Hermann Kutter

Hermann Kutter (September 12, 1863 – March 31, 1931) was a Swiss Protestant theologian.

Heroin-assisted treatment

In 2008, the right-wing Swiss People's Party initiated a national referendum on Heroin assisted treatment.

Jürg M. Stauffer

From 2000 until November 26, 2004, he was Secretary General of the Young SVP, the youth section of the Swiss People's Party (SVP).

Philippe A. Guye

Philippe A. Guye FRS (12 June 1862 – 27 March 1922) was a Swiss chemist that was awarded the Davy Medal in 1921 "for his researches in physical chemistry".

Philippe Favre

Philippe Favre (11 December 1961 − 6 December 2013) was a Swiss racing driver.

Swiss people

Between April 1876 and May 1877 a contingent of Swiss immigrants comprising 119 families came to the area of Magellanes (Punta Arenas and Fresh Water), mostly peasants from the canton of Fribourg.

Swiss People's Party

Therefore, in its transportation policy the party endorses the expansion of the Swiss motorway network and is against the preference of public transportation over individual transportation.

Shortly afterward, the Grisons branch reorganised itself as the Conservative Democratic Party (BDP).


Arthur Fonjallaz

Fonjallaz took an early interest in politics, although his ideas were ill-defined as he was both a radical and an admirer of Enrico Corradini, whilst also becoming involved in an agrarian progentior of the Swiss People's Party.

Bombycites

It contains only one species, Bombycites oeningensis, described from a fossil pupa by the Swiss geologist and naturalist Oswald Heer.

Die Weltwoche

In 2003, the new Weltwoche began to openly support Christoph Blocher and his Swiss People's Party.

Gustav Hegi

Gustav Hegi (13 November 1876 in Rickenbach, Canton of Zürich - 23 April 1932 in Goldbach, Canton of Zürich) was a Swiss botanist.

Henri de Catt

Henri Alexandre de Catt (25 June 1725–23 November 1795), a Swiss scholar, was from 1758 the private secretary and close confidant of Frederick the Great of Prussia.

Natalie Rickli

Natalie Simone Rickli (born 19 November 1976 in Winterthur) is a Swiss politician of the Swiss People's Party.

Princess Fadia of Egypt

On 17 February 1965, she married Pierre Alexievitch Orloff (born 13 December 1938), a Swiss geologist and descendant of the Russian Royal Family, at the Kensington Registry Office, in London.

Samuel Haberstich

Samuel Haberstich (born in Ried, near Schlosswyl, 21 October 1821; died in Bern, 20 February 1872) was a Swiss poet and story writer, known mostly by his pseudonym, Arthur Bitter.

Spanish Fork, Utah

In the Utah Valley's historical settlement by immigrants, Scandinavians most notably Icelanders, as well Swiss people, Spanish Americans, Hispanics or Latinos; and Irish Americans and Scottish Americans are prevalent ethnocultural groups in Spanish Fork, nearby towns of Salem and Payson.

Swiss Federal Council election, 2010

The Green Party and the FDP.The Liberals have announced they will support the SP's candidate for Leuenberger's seat, while the Swiss People's Party has announced it will put up its own candidate, likely either Jean-François Rime or Adrian Amstutz (Caspar Baader was mooted as a candidate, but declined).

Yiannis Ioannou

Yiannis Ioannou (born 10 September 1989) is a Swiss/Cypriot professional footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for Chalkanoras Idaliou.