Max Weber (Swiss politician)

Max Weber (2 August 1897 in Zürich – 2 December 1974 in Bern) was a Swiss politician.

Max Weber

A member of the Social Democratic Party, Weber was seven times elected to the National Council, the lower house of the Swiss parliament (the Federal Assembly), serving continuously from 4 December 1939 to 31 December 1951 and then again from 5 December 1955 to 28 November 1971.

On 13 December 1951 he was elected to the Swiss Federal Council (the seven-member executive that constitutes Switzerland's federal government) where he headed the Federal Department of Finance from 1 January 1952 until 31 December 1953.[1] Weber took the decision to resign from his seat on the Council with effect from 31 January 1954 after a referendum held on 6 December 1953 had rejected his federal budget proposals.

References
  1. https://www.efd.admin.ch/efd/de/home/das-efd/der-departementsvorsteher/ueli-maurer/fruehere-departmentsvorsteher.html
Preceded by
Ernst Nobs		 Member of the Swiss Federal Council
1951–1954		 Succeeded by
Hans Streuli
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