Anny Klawa-Morf

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Anny Klawa-Morf , née Anny Morf (born January 10, 1894 in Basel , † April 15, 1993 in Bern ) was a Swiss socialist women's rights activist .

Life

Her parents were Robert Heinrich Morf and Emma, ​​née Ledermann (1865–1945). Her father, a trained baker, worked as an unskilled worker and took part in the 1906 strike in Albisrieden, which put him on a blacklist. The family lost the factory apartment of the machine works Schäppi & Schweizer and stood with the furniture on the street for four days. Anny and her mother destroyed the vegetable garden so as not to leave it to a strikebreaker family.

From 1908 Anny Morf worked in the Baumann older silk weaving mill in Höngg . She joined the young socialist boys and in 1909 joined the workers 'association and the textile workers' association. In 1910/1911 she founded a “socialist girls group” and joined the Swiss Social Democratic Party . In addition to her, Willi Munzenberg , Rosa Bloch-Bollag , Fritz Platten , Willi Trostel and Ernst Nobs regularly took part in the meetings of the left-wing extremist debating club “Kegelklub” . Kharitonov introduced Lenin here. In 1912 she took part in the so-called Peace Congress of the Second International in Basel. As a member of the strike leadership, she subsequently found no employment. This was followed by several years of casual work, stays abroad and in prisons.

After the First World War, she left the church. Family experiences made them suspicious of men. As an employee of Ernst Tollers , she was with the "Red Army" in Dachau , experienced the collapse of the Munich Soviet Republic and was imprisoned in Stadelheim .

From 1921 she lived in Bern, from 1922 worked in a silk factory and joined the Social Democratic Party in Länggasse . In the same year she married the Latvian typographer Jānis Kļava (1876-1956), who had the daughter Elisabeth (Susy; 1910-1947). Anny now turned to journalism and began, together with Karl Geissbühler, to build up the Bernese Kinderfreunde der Roten Falken , which she directed until 1967. In 1936 she organized the aid to Spain of the Swiss Workers' Relief Organization (SAH).

After Jānis Kļava's death, she initially worked as a washer and cleaner until she got a job at the SMUV health insurance company, which she carried out until 1978.

In 1982, a 50-minute documentary about her life was broadcast on Swiss television under the title "Ich ha nie ufgä". Her estate, which includes numerous correspondence and photographic documents, was transferred to the Swiss Social Archives after her death . When new squares were created around Weststrasse in Zurich in 2010 as part of the traffic calming, Anny-Klawa-Platz between Lochergut and Bullingerplatz was named after her.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Bricklayers' strike and strike at Arbenz in Albisrieden 1906 City Archives Zurich VL 63
  2. ^ Social archive: Photo Anny Klawa-Morf with Janis Klawa and her mother
  3. ↑ Kinderfreunde Bern: “Hüsi” Belpmoos camp and holiday home
  4. ↑ https://www.freiberthoud.ch/film_and_book/filme_schweizer_fernsehen.html
  5. ↑ http://findmittel.ch/archive/archNeu/Ar127.html
  6. ↑ Tages-Anzeiger from May 25, 2012: Deceptive idyll on the west bypass
personal data
SURNAME Klawa-Morf, Anny
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Morf, Anny (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss socialist women's rights activist
DATE OF BIRTH January 10, 1894
PLACE OF BIRTH Basel
DATE OF DEATH April 15, 1993
Place of death Bern