Federal Department of Environment, Transport, Energy and Communications

The Federal Department of Environment, Transport, Energy and Communications (Italian: Dipartimento federale dell'ambiente, dei trasporti, dell'energia e delle comunicazioni (ATEC), German: Eidgenössisches Departement für Umwelt, Verkehr, Energie und Kommunikation (UVEK), French: Département fédéral de l'Environnement, des Transports, de l'Energie et de la Communication (ETEC)) is one of the seven departments of the Swiss federal government, headed by a member of the Swiss Federal Council.

Name of department

*1848-1859: Department of Posts and Construction
*1860-1872: Department of Posts
*1873-1878: Department of Posts and Telegraph
*1879-1962: Department of Posts and Railways
*1963-1978: Department of Transport, Communications and Energy
*1979-1997: Federal Department of Transport, Communications and Energy
*Since 1998: Federal Department of Environment, Transport, Energy and Communications

List of heads of the department

*1848-1852: Wilhelm Matthias Naeff *1853-1854: Josef Munzinger *1855-1866: Wilhelm Matthias Naeff *1867 only: Jakob Dubs *1868 only: Jean-Jacques Challet-Venel *1869 only: Jakob Dubs *1870-1872: Jean-Jacques Challet-Venel *1873-1875: Eugène Borel *1876 only: Joachim Heer *1877-1879: Emil Welti *1880-1881: Simeon Bavier *1882-1883: Emil Welti *1884 only: Adolf Deucher *1885-1891: Emil Welti *1892-1901: Josef Zemp *1902 only: Robert Comtesse *1903-1907: Josef Zemp

*1908-1911: Ludwig Forrer *1912 only: Robert Comtesse *1912 only: Louis Perrier *1911-1917: Ludwig Forrer *1918-1929: Robert Haab *1930-1940: Marcel Pilet-Golaz *1940-1950: Enrico Celio *1950-1954: Josef Escher *1955-1959: Giuseppe Lepori *1960-1965: Willy Spühler *1966-1968: Rudolf Gnägi *1968-1973: Roger Bonvin *1974-1979: Willy Ritschard *1980-1987: Leon Schlumpf *1988-1995: Adolf Ogi *From 1995: Moritz Leuenberger

External links

*http://www.uvek.admin.ch

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