title: 2022 in Switzerland
text: # 2022 in Switzerland
  
  Events in the year 2022 in Switzerland.
  
  ## Incumbents
  
  * President of the Swiss Confederation: Ignazio Cassis
  * President of the National Council: Irène Kälin
  * President of the Swiss Council of States: Thomas Hefti
  
  ## Events
  
  Ongoing — COVID-19 pandemic in Switzerland
  
  ## Arts and entertainment
  
  * 75th Locarno Film Festival August 3 – 13
  
  ## Deaths
  
  * 7 January – Laurence Boissier, writer and artist (born 1965).
  * 20 January - René Robert, photographer (born 1936).
  * 21 January - Marcel Mauron, footballer (FC La Chaux-de-Fonds, national team) (born 1929).
  * 24 January - Silvia Gmür, architect (born 1939).
  * 26 January - Gérald Ducimetière, artist (born 1940).
  * 2 February - J. Alexander Baumann, politician (born 1942).
  * 3 February - Georges Athanasiadès, organist and choirmaster (born 1929).
  * 5 February - Emanuel Hurwitz, psychoanalyst and politician (born 1935).
  * 6 February - Alice Moretti, politician (born 1921).
  * 14 February - Francine-Charlotte Gehri, writer (born 1923).
  * 8 March - Dominique Warluzel, lawyer and playwright (born 1957).
  * 19 March - Pierre Naftule, writer and theatre director (born 1960).
  * 10 May - Nessim Gaon, Sudanese born financier (born 1922)
  * 2 June - Valentin Oehen, politician (born 1931)
  * 10 July - Hans Frauenfelder, biophysicist (born 1922)
  * 10 July - Marcel Rémy, mountaineer (born 1923)
  * 12 July - Ivo Fürer, Roman Catholic prelate (born 1930)
  * 14 July - Erica Pedretti, artist (born 1930)
  * 15 July - Alice Pauli, artist (born 1922)
  * 20 July - Judith Stamm, politician (born 1934)
  * 22 July - Emilie Benes Brzezinski, sculptor (born 1932)
  * 24 July - Kurt Pfammatter, ice hockey player (born 1941)
  * 29 July - Hans Bangerter, football administrator (born 1924)
  * 5 August - Mariella Mehr, writer (born 1947)
  * 13 August - Antoine Poncet, sculptor (born 1928)
  * 21 August - Oliver Frey, visual artist (born 1948)
  * 22 August - Fredy Studer, drummer (born 1948)
  * 28 August - Peter Stephan Zurbriggen, Roman Catholic archbishop (born 1943)
  * 5 September - Mariella Mehr, writer (born 1947)
  * 5 September - Margrith Bigler-Eggenberger, jurist (born 1933)
  * 9 September - Pierre Muller, politician (born 1952)
  * 11 September - Alain Tanner, film director (born 1929)
  * 13 September - Jean-Luc Godard, film director (Breathless, Bande à part, Pierrot le Fou), screenwriter and critic (born 1930)
  * 16 September - Heinz Allenspach, Swiss politician, MP (born 1928)
  * 17 September - Mathias Feldges, politician, member of the Executive Council of Basel-Stadt (born 1937)
  * 18 September - Nicolas Schindelholz, footballer (born 1988)
  * 3 October - Simon Hallenbarter, Olympic biathlete (born 1979)
  