Federal Department of Finance

The Federal Department of Finance (in German: Eidgenössisches Finanzdepartement (EFD), in French Département fédéral des finances) is one of the seven departments of the Swiss federal government. The department is headed by a member of the Swiss Federal Council, Switzerland's finance minister.

List of heads of the department

• 1848-1850: Josef Munzinger
• 1851 only: Henri Druey
• 1852 only: Josef Munzinger
• 1853-1855: Henri Druey
• 1855-1856: Melchior Josef Martin Knüsel
• 1857-1858: Jakob Stämpfli
• 1859-1861: Constant Fornerod
• 1862-1863: Melchior Josef Martin Knüsel
• 1864-1867: Jean-Jacques Challet-Venel
• 1868 only: Victor Ruffy
• 1869 only: Jean-Jacques Challet-Venel
• 1870-1871: Paul Cérésole
• 1872 only: Karl Schenk
• 1872-1873: Johann Jakob Scherer
• 1873-1875: Wilhelm Matthias Näff
• 1876-1878: Bernhard Hammer
• 1879 only: Simeon Bavier
• 1880-1890: Bernhard Hammer
• 1891-1899: Walter Hauser
• 1900 only: Robert Comtesse
• 1901-1902: Walter Hauser
• 1903 only: Robert Comtesse
• 1904 only: Marc-Emile Ruchet
• 1905-1909: Robert Comtesse
• 1910 only: Josef Anton Schobinger
• 1911 only: Robert Comtesse
• 1912-1919: Giuseppe Motta
• 1920-1934: Jean-Marie Musy
• 1934-1938: Albert Meyer
• 1939-1943: Ernst Wetter
• 1944-1951: Ernst Nobs
• 1952-1954: Max Weber
• 1954-1959: Hans Streuli
• 1960-1962: Jean Bourgknecht
• 1962-1968: Roger Bonvin
• 1968-1973: Nello Celio
• 1974-1979: Georges-André Chevallaz
• 1980-1983: Willy Ritschard
• 1984-1995: Otto Stich
• 1996-2003: Kaspar Villiger
• Since 2004: Hans-Rudolf Merz