Switzerland
| Bernhard Schlegel | −1374 (Bâle) |
| François Tabazan | −1624 (Geneva) |
| Baltzer Mengis | ~1652 (Lucerne) |
| Christoph Mengis | – 1653 (Schwyz) |
| Christoph II. Mengis | 1653–1681 (Schwyz) |
| Johannes Mengis | 1681–1695 (Schwyz) |
| Balthasar Mengis | 1695–1723 (Schwyz) |
| Vollmar family | 1695- (Saint-Gall) |
| ? Deigentesch | ~1716 (Fribourg) |
| Bernhard Mengis | 1723- (Schwyz) |
| ? Mengis | – 1779 (Schwyz) |
| ? Vollmer | ~1782 (Glarus) |
| Johann Melchior Grossholz | −1815 (Schwyz) |
| ? Vollmer | 20ies of the 19th century (Zurique) |
| Augustin Grossholz | 1815–1826 (Schwyz) |
| Franz Grossholz | 1822– (Zug) |
| Joseph Pickel | 1826–1829 (Schwyz) |
| Oswald Schlumpf | 1829–1830 (Schwyz) |
| Franz Xaver Schmid | 1830–1855 (Schwyz, Zug and Glarus) |
| Theodor Mengis) | 1839–1918 (Bern and Rheinfelden) |
| Johann Bettenmann | 1855–1857 (Schwyz and Saint-Gall) |
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Famous quotes containing the word switzerland:
“In a war everybody always knows all about Switzerland, in peace times it is just Switzerland but in war time it is the only country that everybody has confidence in, everybody.”
—Gertrude Stein (1874–1946)
“In Italy for thirty years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder, bloodshed—they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland they had brotherly love, five hundred years of democracy and peace, and what did they produce? The cuckoo clock!”
—Orson Welles (1915–84)