Federal Department of Economics, Education and Research
| Federal Department of Economics, Education and Research EAER | |
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| Headquarters | Bern , Bundeshaus Ost |
| Chief |
 Guy Parmelin ( SVP / VD ), Federal Councilor |
| Deputy |
 Karin Keller-Sutter ( FDP / SG ), Federal Councilor |
| Employees | 2800 |
| At sight | Federal Council |
| Subordinate offices |
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| Website | www.wbf.admin.ch |
The Federal Department of Economics, Education and Research EAER ( French Département fédéral de l'économie, de la formation et de la recherche DEFR , Italian Dipartimento federale dell'economia, della formazione e della ricerca DEFR , Rhaeto-Romanic ) is one of the seven departments of the Swiss state government. The department is headed by one of the Federal Councilors .
The department's task is to ensure optimal framework conditions for employers and entrepreneurs, for trade, for small and medium-sized enterprises, but also for large multinational companies. The department controls and accompanies the economic policy decisions and their implementation and is intended to support a policy that improves the starting position for Switzerland as a business and research location in global competition .
Designations
At the beginning of the state, the department was called the “Commerce and Customs Department”. It has been renamed several times since then. The previous names were:
- 1848–1872: Trade and Customs Department
- 1873–1878: Railway and Trade Department
- 1879–1887: Trade and Agriculture Department
- 1888–1895: Industry and Agriculture Department
- 1896–1914: Trade, Industry and Agriculture Department
- 1915–1978: Department of Economic Affairs
- 1979–2012: Federal Department of Economic Affairs (FDEA)
- since 2013: Federal Department of Economics, Education and Research (EAER)
Areas
- Federal Office for Agriculture (FOAG)
- Federal Office for National Economic Supply (BWL)
- Federal Housing Office (BWO)
- Federal Office for Community Service (ZIVI)
- General Secretariat
- Consumer Affairs Office
- State Secretariat for Education, Research and Innovation (SERI)
- State Secretariat for Economic Affairs (SECO) (State Secretary Marie-Gabrielle Ineichen-Fleisch )
Administratively assigned to the WBF:
- Federal University Institute for Vocational Education and Training (SFIVET)
- ETH domain
- Price Supervisor
- Competition Commission (WEKO)
Head of the Department
| year | image | Name (life data) |
Political party |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1848-1853 |
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Friedrich Frey-Herosé (1801–1873) |
free. |
| 1854 |
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Wilhelm Matthias Naeff (1802-1881) |
free. |
| 1855 |
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Josef Munzinger (1791–1855) |
free. |
| 1855-1856 |
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Constant Fornerod (1819-1899) |
free. |
| 1857 |
|
Josef Martin Knüsel (1813–1889) |
free. |
| 1858 |
|
Constant Fornerod (1819-1899) |
free. |
| 1859-1860 |
|
Josef Martin Knüsel (1813–1889) |
free. |
| 1861-1866 |
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Friedrich Frey-Herosé (1801–1873) |
free. |
| 1867-1873 |
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Wilhelm Matthias Naeff (1802-1881) |
free. |
| 1873-1874 |
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Johann Jakob Scherer (1825-1878) |
free. |
| 1875-1877 |
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Karl Schenk (1823–1895) |
free. |
| 1878 |
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Joachim Heer (1825–1879) |
free. |
| 1879-1880 |
|
Numa Droz (1844-1899) |
free. |
| 1881 |
|
Louis Ruchonnet (1834-1893) |
free. |
| 1882-1886 |
|
Numa Droz (1844-1899) |
free. |
| 1887-1896 |
|
Adolf Deucher (1831-1912) |
FDP |
| 1897 |
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Adrien Lachenal (1849–1918) |
FDP |
| 1898-1902 |
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Adolf Deucher (1831-1912) |
FDP |
| 1903 |
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Ludwig Forrer (1845–1921) |
FDP |
| 1904-1908 |
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Adolf Deucher (1831-1912) |
FDP |
| 1909 |
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Josef Anton Schobinger (1849–1911) |
Catholic Cons. |
| 1910-1912 |
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Adolf Deucher (1831-1912) |
FDP |
| 1912-1935 |
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Edmund Schulthess (1868-1944) |
FDP |
| 1935-1940 |
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Hermann Obrecht (1882–1940) |
FDP |
| 1940-1947 |
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Walther Stampfli (1884–1965) |
FDP |
| 1948-1954 |
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Rodolphe Rubattel (1896–1961) |
FDP |
| 1955-1959 |
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Thomas Holenstein (1896–1962) |
KCVP |
| 1960-1961 |
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Friedrich Traugott Elections (1899–1985) |
BGB |
| 1961-1969 |
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Hans Schaffner (1908-2004) |
FDP |
| 1970-1988 |
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Ernst Brugger (1914–1998) |
FDP |
| 1978-1982 |
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Fritz Honegger (1917–1999) |
FDP |
| 1983-1986 |
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Kurt Furgler (1924-2008) |
CVP |
| 1987-1998 |
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Jean-Pascal Delamuraz (1936–1998) |
FDP |
| 1998-2002 |
|
Pascal Couchepin (* 1942) |
FDP |
| 2003-2006 |
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Joseph Deiss (* 1946) |
CVP |
| 2006-2010 |
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Doris Leuthard (* 1963) |
CVP |
| 2010-2018 |
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Johann Schneider-Ammann (* 1952) |
FDP The Liberals |
| 2019– |
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Guy Parmelin (* 1959) |
SVP |
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