Adrienne Jeannet-Nicolet

Adrienne Jeannet-Nicolet (born May 6, 1891 in Courtelary , † February 26, 1969 in Lausanne ; resident in Noiraigue and Travers ) was a Swiss teacher and women's rights activist from the canton of Vaud .

Life

Adrienne Jeannet-Nicolet was a daughter of Emile Nicolet and Emma Bosset. She married the bandagist Edmond Jeannet. She grew up in the Jura. She attended the teachers' seminar and studied German and French literature at the University of Zurich . She worked as a teacher at the Boos-Jegher Institute in Zurich . Later she ran a private school in Lausanne.

From 1923 she was head of the legal advisory office , from 1943 Vice-President and from 1953 to 1958 President of the Fédération des unions de femmes du canton de Vaud . From 1944 to 1949 she was President of the Federation of Swiss Women's Associations (BSF). She worked in various specialist commissions of the Federation of Swiss Women's Associations and the International Women's Council . Jeannet represented the Federation of Swiss Women's Associations from 1949 to 1953 in the Swiss Unesco Commission . She was active in the abstinence movement and from 1946 to 1953 a member of the federal commission to combat alcoholism .

Literature and Sources

• Femmes suisses et le Mouvement féministe: organe officiel des informations de l'Alliance de Sociétés Féminines Suisses , 1969, no.3.
• Dossier from the Swiss Dispatch Agency, Bern, in the State Archives of the Canton of Vaud.

Web links

• Regula Ludi: Adrienne Jeannet-Nicolet. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . October 10, 2012 , accessed August 9, 2020 .

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