Edmund Schulthess (Brugg, 2 March 1868 - 22 April 1944) was a Swiss politician.
He was the son of Edmund Schulthess (Landwirt, 4 January 1826 - 10 April 1906) and wife (m. 15 May 1851) Cornelia Brigitta Marth (22 June 1828 - 22 February 1896).
He was elected to the Swiss Federal Council on 17 July 1912 and handed over office on 15 April 1935. He was affiliated to the Free Democratic Party. During his time in office he held the following departments:
- Department of Trade, Industry and Agriculture (1912 - 1914)
- Department of Economic Affairs (1915 - 1935)
He was President of the Confederation four times in 1917, 1921, 1928 and 1933.
He married Marguerite Jeanne Disqué, born c. 1880, and had a daughter Nelly Marguerite Jeanne Schulthess, born in Switzerland on 13 August 1903, who married as his first wife at the Church of the Holy Trinity in Bern on 30 November 1933 Portuguese Vasco Francisco Caetano de Castro Coutinho de Quevedo Pessanha, born in Lisbon, Coração de Jesus, on 3 July 1909), and had issue.
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