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Eveline Widmer-Schlumpf

1956 - Today

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Eveline Widmer-Schlumpf (born 16 March 1956) is a Swiss politician and lawyer who served as a Member of the Swiss Federal Council from 2008 to 2015. A member of the Swiss People's Party (SVP/UDC) until 2008, she was then a member of the splinter Conservative Democratic Party (BDP/PBD) until 2021, when that party merged into The Centre. Widmer-Schlumpf was the head of the Federal Department of Justice and Police from 2008 to 2010, when she became head of the Federal Department of Finance. She served as President of the Swiss Confederation in 2012. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in 41 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 39 in 2024). Eveline Widmer-Schlumpf is the 9,493rd most popular politician (up from 11,577th in 2024), the 259th most popular biography from Switzerland (up from 347th in 2019) and the 39th most popular Swiss Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Eveline Widmer-Schlumpf ranks 9,490 out of 19,576. Before her are Susanna Agnelli, Chuan Leekpai, and Faure Gnassingbé. After her are Jacob Hutter, George II, Prince of Waldeck and Pyrmont, Adelaide of Susa, Malietoa Tanumafili II, Hiranuma Kiichirō, Catherine Henriette de Balzac d'Entragues, Bongsang of Goguryeo, Mirek Topolánek, and Shalmaneser II.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1956, Eveline Widmer-Schlumpf ranks 132. Before her are Kostas Karamanlis, Bob Saget, Kazumi Tsubota, Nobuko Kondo, Dana Delany, and Stefan Johansson. After her are Mirek Topolánek, John Carney, Chieko Hase, Andoni Goikoetxea Olaskoaga, Dragan Čović, and Cherry Jones.

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In Switzerland

Among people born in Switzerland, Eveline Widmer-Schlumpf ranks 259 out of 1,015. Before her are Heinrich Glarean (1488), Carl Lutz (1895), Lucien Favre (1957), Hans-Rudolf Merz (1942), Carl Jacob Burckhardt (1891), and Heinz Holliger (1939). After her are Prince Sixtus of Bourbon-Parma (1886), Bertha Wegmann (1847), Henri Schwery (1932), Wiborada (900), Moritz Leuenberger (1946), and Andy Hug (1964).

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Among POLITICIANS In Switzerland

Among politicians born in Switzerland, Eveline Widmer-Schlumpf ranks 39. Before her are Alois, Hereditary Prince of Liechtenstein (1968), Ubol Ratana (1951), Didier Burkhalter (1960), Alfred Escher (1819), Carl Lutz (1895), and Hans-Rudolf Merz (1942). After her are Prince Sixtus of Bourbon-Parma (1886), Moritz Leuenberger (1946), Matilda of Habsburg (1253), Doris Leuthard (1963), Alexander Schallenberg (1969), and Gustave Ador (1845).

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