[1] Most notably he is known for his policy towards the immigration of Jewish refugees during World War II trying to enter Switzerland fleeing Nazism.

[4] In 2013, his birth town of Langnau im Emmental, intended to revoke his honorary municipal citizenship which he held there since 1944.

He also served on a variety of boards such as Schweizerische Volksbank (a predecessor of Credit Suisse) from 1933 to 1940 and Swiss Federal Railways from 1938 to 1940.

During his time in office, he held the Department of Justice and Police and was 51st President of the Confederation twice in 1945 and 1951.

[8] Her father was a head forester for the city of Bern, whilst her mother was a devoted poet and author who served as president and honorary president of the Bernese Lyceum Club and hailed from a silk manufacturing dynasty in Basel.