List of government councilors in the canton of Bern

This list shows all former and current members of the government council of the canton of Bern since 1846.

Party abbreviations or political direction

• BDP: Bourgeois Democratic Party (from 2008, split from SVP)
• BGB: farmers, trade and citizens' party (from 1917 in the canton of Bern until 1971, today SVP)
• FDP: Liberal Party, Liberal Democratic Party (from 1894)
• GFL: Green Free List (independent from 1983 to 2006, today part of the Swiss Green Party )
• KK: Catholic Conservative (today CVP)
• K: Conservative (Protestant Conservative)
• LF: Liberal - Freethinking (today FDP)
• LK: Liberal - Conservative
• LR: Liberal-Radikal (today FDP)
• SP: Social Democratic Party (from 1888)
• SVP: Swiss People's Party (from 1971)

Government councils

Surname	Party / parliamentary group	Term of office	Born	Died
Alexander Funk	LR	1846-1850	1806	1871
Ulrich Ochsenbein	LR	1846-1848	1811	1890
Jakob Stämpfli	LR	1846-1850 1854-1855	1820	1879
Johann Schneider		1831-1848	1792	1858
Johann Rudolf Schneider	LR	1838-1850	1804	1880
Xavier Stockmar	LR	(1835-1839) 1846-1850 1862-1864	1797	1864
Friedrich Always	LR	1846-1846	1809	1846
Albrecht Jaggi	LR	1839-1848	1796	1870
Cyprien Revel	LR	1846-1850	1805	1886
Samuel Lehmann	LR	1846-1850 1854-1862	1808	1896
Jakob Imobersteg	LR	1848-1850	1813	1875
Johann Ulrich Lehmann	LR	1849-1850	1817	1876
Peter von Känel		1849-1850	1822	1885
Eduard Blösch	K	1850-1858	1807	1866
Bendicht Straub	K	1850-1851	1787	1868
Ludwig von Fischer	K	1850-1855	1805	1884
Auguste Moschard	K	1850-1852	1817	1900
Jakob Dähler	K	1850-1858	1808	1808
Friedrich Fueter	K	1850-1858	1802	1858
Gustav Röthlisberger	K	1850-1850	1820	1867
Xavier Elsässer	KK	1850-1852	1805	1871
Johann Brunner	K	1850-1952 1954-1858	1812	1876
Karl Stooss		1850-1854
Peter Bühler		1852-1854
Henri-Joseph-François Parrat		1852-1853	1791	1866
Alphonse Bandelier	K	1852-1854	1800	1860
Pierre-Ignace Aubry		(1839-1846) 1853-1854	1796	1878
Paul Migy	LR	1854-1870	1814	1879
Jakob Steiner		1854-1857	1813	1865
Karl Schenk	LR	1855-1864	1823	1895
Christian Sahli	LR	1856-1861	1825	1897
Johann Jakob Karlen	LR	1857-1871	1819	1873
Johann Weber	LR	1858-1872	1828	1878
Friedrich Samuel Rudolf Kilian		1858-1877	1821	1882
Ludwig Friedrich Kurz	LK	1858-1878	1819	1882
Jakob Scherz	LR	1858-1869	1818	1889
Johann Jakob Kummer	F.	1862-1873	1828	1913
Johann Jakob Hartmann	F.	1864-1878	1818	1897
Jérôme Desvoignes		1864-1866	1823	1890
Pierre Jolissaint	LR	1866-1873	1830	1896
Wilhelm Teuscher		1870-1878	1834	1903
Constant Bodenheimer	LR	1870-1878	1836	1893
Rudolf Rohr	LR	1872-1888	1831	1888
Johann Wynistorf		1872-1878	1830	1896
Jules Frossard	LR	1873-1877	1840	1888
Johannes Ritschard		1873-1878 1893-1908	1845	1908
Niklaus Raez	LR	1878-1894	1826	1905
Alfred Scheurer	LR	1878-1904	1840	1921
Joseph Stockmar	LR	1878-1896	1851	1919
Albert Bitzius	LR	1878-1882	1835	1882
Albert von Wattenwyl	LK	1878-1885
Edmund von Steiger	LK	1878-1908	1836	1908
Friedrich Eggli	LR	1882-1895	1838	1895
Charles Albert Gobat	F.	1882-1912	1843	1914
Andreas Willi		1886-1892	1834	1892
Johannes Schär	KK	1886-1890	1824	1906
Johann Tschiemer	F.	1888-1890	1834	1900
Hans Dinkelmann	LR	1890-1892	1857	1934
Hermann Lienhard	F.	1890-1895	1851	1905
Eduard Marti		1892-1896	1829	1896
Friedrich von Wattenwyl		1892-1911	1852	1912
Johann Minder		1895-1907	1848	1907
Alfred Klay		1896-1910	1853	1917
Louis Joliat	LR	1896-1904	1846	1922
Niklaus Morgenthaler	FDP	1896-1905	1853	1928
Gottfried Kunz	FDP	1904-1912	1859	1930
Henri Simonin	LR	1904-1927	1855	1927
Karl Koenitzer		1905-1915	1854	1915
Carl Moser	FDP / BGB	1908-1931	1867	1959
Fritz Burren	BGB	1908-1927	1860	1927
Emil Lohner	F.	1909-1928	1865	1959
Karl Scheurer	F.	1910-1919	1872	1929
Albert Locher	F.	1912-1917	1856	1917
Rudolf von Erlach	F / BGB	1912-1923	1860	1925
Hans Tschumi	BGB	1912-1926	1858	1944
Leo Merz	F.	1915-1934	1869	1952
Alfred Stauffer	F.	1918-1938	1867	1959
Friedrich Volmar	F / BGB	1920-1926	1875	1945
Walter Bösiger	BGB	1923-1938	1878	1960
Fritz Joss	BGB	1926-1939	1886	1939
Paul Guggisberg	BGB	1926-1945	1881	1946
Hugo Dürrenmatt	BGB	1927-1946	1876	1957
Alfred Rudolf	F.	1928-1946	1877	1955
Henri Mouttet	F.	1928-1948	1883	1975
Hans Stahli	BGB	1931-1949	1889	1963
Arnold Seematter	F.	1934-1954	1890	1954
Robert Grimm	SP	1938-1946	1881	1958
Georges Moeckli	SP	1938-1954	1889	1974
Eduard von Steiger	BGB	1939-1940	1881	1962
Max Gafner	BGB	1941-1957	1892	1957
Markus Feldmann	BGB	1945–1951	1897	1958
Walter Siegenthaler	BGB	1946-1960	1904	1994
Fritz Giovanoli	SP	1946-1964	1898	1964
Ernst Reinhard	SP	1946-1947	1889	1947
Samuel Brawand	SP	1947-1962	1898	2001
Virgile Moine	FDP	1948-1966	1900	1988
Dewet Buri	BGB	1949-1969	1901	1995
Rudolf Gnägi	BGB	1952-1965	1917	1985
Robert Bauder	FDP	1954-1980	1916	1991
Henri Huber	SP	1954-1988	1918	1979
Fritz Moser	BGB / SVP	1958-1974	1908	1985
Hans Tschumi	BGB / SVP	1960-1974	1908	2001
Erwin Schneider	SP	1962-1988	1910	1998
Adolf Blaser	SP	1964-1976	1908	1978
Ernst Jaberg	BGB / SVP	1966-1979	1917	1998
Simon Kohler	FDP	1966-1988	1916	1990
Ernst Blaser	BGB / SVP	1969-1986	1922	1994
Werner Martignoni	SVP	1974-1986	1927
Bernhard Muller	SVP	1974-1990	1931	2020
Kurt Meyer	SP	1976-1990	1932
Gotthelf Bürki	SP	1978-1990	1925	2006
Henri-Louis Favre	FDP	1978-1986	1920	2011
Henri Summers	SP	1978-1984	1926	1984
Peter Schmid	SVP	1979-1998	1941
Hans Krähenbühl	FDP	1980-1986	1924	2010
René Bärtschi	SP	1984-1992	1931	1992
Peter Siegenthaler	SVP	1986-1994	1940
Ueli Augsburger	SVP	1986-1994	1941
Leni Robert	GFL	1986-1990	1936
Benjamin Hofstetter	GFL	1986-1990	1952
Mario Annoni	FDP	1990-2006	1954
Hermann Fehr	SP	1990-1997	1941
Peter Widmer	FDP	1990-1998	1935
Dori Schaer-Born	SP	1992-2002	1942
Hans Lauri	SVP	1994-2001	1944
Elisabeth Zölch	SVP	1994-2006	1951
Samuel Bhend	SP	1997-2006	1943
Dora Andres	FDP	1998-2006	1957
Werner Luginbühl	SVP / BDP	1998-2008	1958
Urs Gasche	SVP / BDP	2001-2010	1955
Barbara Egger-Jenzer	SP	2002-2018	1956
Hans-Juerg Käser	FDP	2006-2018	1949
Philippe Perrenoud	SP	2006-2016	1955
Bernhard Pulver	GFL	2006-2018	1965
Andreas Rickenbacher	SP	2006-2016	1968
Christoph Neuhaus	SVP	2008–	1966
Beatrice Simon	BDP	2010–	1960
Christoph Ammann	SP	2016–	1969
Pierre Alain Schnegg	SVP	2016–	1962
Christine Haesler	Green	2018–	1963
Evi Allemann	SP	2018–	1978
Philippe Muller	FDP	2018–	1963

swell

• Government Council - Conseil-exécutif. (PDF) In: Government Council - Conseil-exécutif. State Archives of the Canton of Bern, pp. 38–40 , accessed on January 20, 2011 (German, French). 
• Former members of the Government Council (from 1846) on the State Chancellery website.
• Overview of dates of birth and death .
• Details: Political direction, dates of birth and death of government council members ( Historical Lexicon of Switzerland )
• Details: Political direction, dates of birth and death of government council members from the Jura since 1831. Data in French ( Lexikon des Jura )
• Andreas Willis tomb again at the church

Individual evidence

1. ^ Former government councilor Hans Krähenbühl died on the website of the Swiss radio DRS on December 14, 2010