Agnes Robmann

Agnes Robmann (born March 26, 1876 in Herbrechtingen ( Baden-Württemberg ); † April 17, 1951 Meilen ; entitled to live in Zurich ) was a Swiss teacher , socialist and women's rights activist from the canton of Zurich .

Life

Agnes Robmann was the daughter of Hans Rudolf Robmann, a worker in a cotton mill in the Tösstal , and Anna Maria Mäule. She attended the Küsnacht teacher training college from 1893 to 1895 . She worked as a teacher in Zurich . In 1906 she joined the Social Democratic Teachers' Association and the Social Democratic Party of Switzerland (SPS). She held a leading position in the Swiss Workers' Association. She was a member of the women's suffrage association and in World War I the executive committee of the Swiss Social Democratic Party. In this function she took part in the conferences of Zimmerwald (1915) and Kiental (1916). Robmann was a socialist and campaigner for women's rights . As an author, she published numerous brochures on women's issues and socialism .

Works

• Agnes Robmann: Women's gainful employment and citizenship rights: what for - for whom ?. Publisher: Swiss Social Democratic Workers' Association, Zurich 1917.
• Agnes Robmann: Proletarian lifestyle: easily comprehensible presentation of questions of upbringing. Promachos-Verlag, Bern-Belp 1918.
• Agnes Robmann: women's rights, women's duties. Social Democratic Party of the Canton of Zurich, Zurich 1920.

literature

• The Woman in Life and Work , 1946, no. 3–4 and 1951, no. 6.
• Popular law of April 20, 1951.

Web links

• Brigitte Studer: Agnes Robmann. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . December 2, 2011 , accessed August 8, 2020 .

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