Annie Leuch-Reineck

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Annie Leuch-Reineck , b. Reineck, (born November 26, 1880 in Kannawurf (Thuringia); † December 21, 1978 in Saint-Prex , Switzerland) was a Swiss mathematician and women's rights activist. She was one of the formative personalities of the Swiss women's movement between 1920 and 1940.

Origin and education

The daughter of the Protestant pastor and superintendent Erhard Reineck (1841-1932) from Magdeburg and Marie, née Godet (1847-1936) from Neuchâtel (Switzerland) grew up in Kannawurf and Heldrungen in Thuringia.

She received her first lessons at home from her sister Theodora. From 1895 she attended the École Vinet in Lausanne , which was run by her aunt Sophie Godet; then she attended a school in Bern . In 1904 she passed her high school diploma.

The pedagogue

In autumn 1901 she began studying mathematics, physics and chemistry in Bern. She acquired a high school teacher certificate for the subjects of mathematics, physics and geography and was one of the first German-speaking women to receive her doctorate in mathematics at the University of Bern in 1907 on the subject of "The relationship between spherical functions and Bessel functions". From that year until 1925 she taught at the girls 'secondary school in Bern and at the teachers' seminar there. She then stopped working and moved back to Lausanne, where her husband had been appointed in 1925.

The women's rights activist

In 1916 she took over the management of the Bern department of the Swiss Association for Women's Suffrage . In 1919 she was a co-founder of the Bernese Women's Association. From 1920 to 1933 she fought for the retention of Swiss citizenship for women when marrying foreigners and was a member of various legal commissions of the Federation of Swiss Women's Associations . In 1921 she was the founder of the Bern Women's Association and co-organizer of the 2nd Swiss Congress for Women's Interests . In 1928 she was appointed central president of the Swiss Association for Women's Suffrage, which she headed until 1940. Also in 1928 she worked for the “Swiss Exhibition for Women's Work” (Saffa). In 1929 she headed the voting petition. She was a board member of the Swiss Association for Social Policy, a member of the World Federation for Women's Suffrage (Engl. International Alliance of Women ) commission established for the nationality of the wife, who works at the Mouvement féministe for federal affairs. From 1940 to 1945 she organized military aid in Lausanne. Even after 1945 she was active in various associations.

Annie Leuch-Reineck was married to the Bern lawyer and later federal judge Georg Leuch (1888-1959) since 1913 . She was a granddaughter of the Reformed theologian Frédéric Louis Godet (1812-1900) from Neuchâtel. Her sister Theodora Reineck (1874–1963) was the general secretary of the Evangelical Station Mission in Berlin . Her nephew Walter Eric Spear (1921-2008) was an important physicist in Great Britain.

Works

In addition to various magazine articles on school, legal and women's issues:

  • The relationship between spherical functions and Bessel functions , Halle: Kaemmerer, 1907; zugl. Phil. Diss. Univ. Bern
  • The women's movement in Switzerland , 2 vols., Zurich: Orell Füssli, 1928
  • Memories of Georg Leuch , † August 9, 1959, private print, St-Prex, 1961

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Silke Redolfi: Women build the state, 100 years of the Federation of Swiss Women's Organizations , NZZ-Verlag Zurich, 2000, p. 70, ISBN 3-85823-819-8 .
  2. ↑ Silke Redolfi: Women build the state, 100 years of the Federation of Swiss Women's Organizations , NZZ-Verlag Zurich, 2000, p. 70, ISBN 3-85823-819-8 .
personal data
SURNAME Leuch-Reineck, Annie
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Reineck, Annie; Leuch, Annie
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss mathematician, women's rights activist
DATE OF BIRTH November 26, 1880
PLACE OF BIRTH Kanna throw
DATE OF DEATH December 21, 1978
Place of death Saint-Prex