Career
He was affiliated to the Free Democratic Party. Huwyler was Council and Mayor from 1978 to 1980 for the Schwyz Cantonal Government. He was an attorney who led his own law firm.
He was appointed Director of Justice for two legislative sessions for Schwyz from 1996 to 2004.
Huwyler lived in Rickenbach (South Zone). Huwyler died on October 4, 2009 in a hiking accident on the Grosser Mythen.