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Vice president of the Swiss Confederation (2023–2023); Member of the Swiss Federal Council (2019–2025); Head of the Federal Department of Defence, Civil Protection and Sports (2019–2025); Member of the Swiss National Council (2005–2018)."},{"q":"Where did Viola Amherd study?","a":"Viola Amherd was educated at University of Fribourg."}],"related":[{"name":"Adolf Deucher","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/adolf-deucher"},{"name":"Adrien Lachenal","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/adrien-lachenal"},{"name":"Johann Schneider-Ammann","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/johann-schneider-ammann"},{"name":"Jonas Furrer","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/jonas-furrer"},{"name":"Philipp Etter","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/philipp-etter"},{"name":"Johann Jakob Scherer","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/johann-jakob-scherer"},{"name":"Eveline Widmer-Schlumpf","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/eveline-widmer-schlumpf"},{"name":"Kaspar Villiger","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/kaspar-villiger"},{"name":"Moritz Leuenberger","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/moritz-leuenberger"},{"name":"Pascal Couchepin","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/pascal-couchepin"},{"name":"Doris Leuthard","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/doris-leuthard"},{"name":"Ruth Metzler","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/ruth-metzler"}],"places_in":[],"nearby":[],"image":{"url":"https://diginpl.com/kb-img/viola-amherd-4cd6d7a1ad.jpg","width":500,"height":700,"license":"Attribution","credit":"Swiss Federal Chancellery / Sina Guntern","page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Viola_Amherd_(2024,_cropped).jpg"},"sources":[{"label":"Wikipedia (English): Viola Amherd","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viola_Amherd","license":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"},{"label":"Wikidata item Q120917","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q120917","license":"https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/"},{"label":"Image: Viola Amherd (2024, cropped).jpg by Swiss Federal Chancellery / Sina Guntern (Attribution)","url":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Viola_Amherd_(2024,_cropped).jpg","license":null}],"license":{"text":"CC BY-SA 4.0","url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/","facts":"https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/"},"attribution":"Text from the Wikipedia article Viola Amherd, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page's text is shared under the same licence. Facts from Wikidata (CC0). Image: Viola Amherd (2024, cropped).jpg — Swiss Federal Chancellery / Sina Guntern, Attribution.","cite":"\"Viola Amherd\". DigiNepal. Last updated 10 November 2026. https://diginpl.com/people/viola-amherd. Retrieved 14 November 2026.","date_modified":"2026-11-10T06:57:45Z","facts_checked":"2026-11-14","alternates":{"html":"https://diginpl.com/people/viola-amherd","en":"https://diginpl.com/people/viola-amherd","ne":null}}