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Marcel Pilet-Golaz

1889 - 1958

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Marcel Pilet-Golaz (31 December 1889 – 11 April 1958) was a Swiss politician. He was elected to the Swiss Federal Council on 13 December 1928 and handed over office on 31 December 1944. He was affiliated to the Free Democratic Party. During his time in office he held the following departments: Department of Home Affairs (1929) Department of Posts and Railways (1930–1939) Political Department (1940) Department of Posts and Railways (1940) Political Department (1941–1944) He was President of the Confederation twice in 1934 and 1940. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Marcel Pilet-Golaz is the 12,583rd most popular politician (down from 12,199th in 2019), the 390th most popular biography from Switzerland (down from 375th in 2019) and the 64th most popular Swiss Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Marcel Pilet-Golaz ranks 12,583 out of 19,576Before him are Zhou Fohai, Lea Ahlborn, Zoe Zaoutzaina, Philippe de Villiers, José López Rega, and François Buzot. After him are Princess Marie Frederica of Hesse-Kassel, Ankhhaf, Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit, Ernest von Koerber, Sayf ad-Din Inal, and Ivan Shuvalov.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1889, Marcel Pilet-Golaz ranks 171Before him are Arthur Waley, Mikha'il Na'ima, Ludwig Renn, Recep Peker, Zofia Kossak-Szczucka, and Shōji Nishimura. After him are W. S. Van Dyke, Łucja Frey, Gerhard Marcks, Hulusi Behçet, Ernest Marsden, and Charles Reidpath. Among people deceased in 1958, Marcel Pilet-Golaz ranks 100Before him are Celso Benigno Luigi Costantini, Aarre Merikanto, Henry Kuttner, Cândido Rondon, Gilbert Walker, and Mark Jones. After him are Evgeny Schwartz, Max Jakob Friedländer, Vittorio Ambrosio, Mike Todd, Prince Ferdinand of Bavaria, and Karl Arnold.

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In Switzerland

Among people born in Switzerland, Marcel Pilet-Golaz ranks 390 out of 1,015Before him are Tariq Ramadan (1962), Alois Estermann (1954), Erhard Loretan (1959), Werner Bischof (1916), Conrad Grebel (1498), and Adolf Ogi (1942). After him are Gustav Wiederkehr (1905), Fritz Schär (1926), Jean Reynier (1771), Aurèle Nicolet (1926), Thomas Bickel (1963), and Ella Maillart (1903).

Among POLITICIANS In Switzerland

Among politicians born in Switzerland, Marcel Pilet-Golaz ranks 64Before him are Emanuele Filiberto of Savoy, Prince of Venice (1972), Paul Grüninger (1891), Walter Hauser (1837), Fritz Platten (1883), Alois Estermann (1954), and Adolf Ogi (1942). After him are Albert Meyer (1870), Elisabeth Kopp (1936), Marc-Émile Ruchet (1853), Corina Casanova (1956), Josef Munzinger (1791), and Princess Nora of Liechtenstein (1950).