| 1934 |
Introduction
of bank secrecy |
| 1939-45 |
Second
World War (for the chronology of events during this period,
refer to tables of events in the relevant literature) |
| 1946 |
Federal
Decree concerning the approval of the financial agreement
concluded in Washington (the Washington Agreement, with message
of the Federal Council, the Federal Decree, debates in the
National Council and in the Council of States, and several
newspaper articles) |
| 1947 |
Short
parliamentary question Meister: concerning valuable objects
which might have found their way from Auschwitz to Switzerland |
| 1949 |
Compensation
Agreement of Switzerland with Poland (see also: Hug/Perrenoud
Report, 1996) |
| 1950 |
Compensation
Agreement of Switzerland with Hungary (see also: Hug/Perrenoud
Report, 1996) |
| 1950 |
Interpellation
of Werner Schmid. Heirless assets |
| 1951 |
Short
parliamentary question of Philipp Schmid |
| 1957 |
Ludwig
Report: Switzerland’s Refugee Policy from 1933 to the Present
(1957) |
| 1959 |
Motion
by Huber. Assets of missing foreigners |
| 1959 |
The
Swiss Bankers Association argues against a registration decree
on « heirless assets ». The assets without known beneficiary
amount to only something like 900,000 francs. (information
according to the NZZ-Fokus, Nr.2, Feb., 1997) |
| 1962 |
Federal
Decree on Assets situated in Switzerland belonging to Foreigners
or Stateless Persons Persecuted for Reasons of Race, Religion,
or Political Beliefs, approved on 20 December 1962 |
| 1962 |
The
task is given to Edgar Bonjour « to elaborate a comprehensive
report for the Federal Council on Swiss foreign policy during
the last World War » |
| 1970 |
Publication
of the Bonjour Report |
| 1975 |
Federal
Decree on the Use to be Made of the Assets in Switzerland
belonging to Foreigners or Stateless Persons Persecuted for
Reasons of Race, Religion, or Political Beliefs, approved on 3
March 1975 |
| 1980 |
The
Federal Finance Administration closes the « Heirless Assets
Fund » account (see also Hug/Perrenoud Report, 1996) |
| 1984/85 |
Robert
Vogler’s The Swiss National Bank’s Gold Trade with the
German Reichsbank 1939-1945 |
| 1989 |
50th
anniversary of the 1939 mobilization « Diamond »
(Parliamentary debates in the context of an addendum to the
preliminary estimate: Official Bulletin of the Federal Assembly
1989, NC transcripts 779 and 805; C of S transcript 321) |
| 1989-94 |
Upon
mandate of the Jewish Agency, the then National Councillor
Andreas Gerwig and the then Federal Councillor Kurt Furgler
search for a solution to the still unclaimed assets. Their
recommendations for the creation of a fund or for a new
statutory regulation are not accepted |
Document compiled by Dr S D
Stein