Antoinette Quinche

Antoinette Quinche (born February 25, 1896 in Diesse , † May 13, 1979 in Lausanne ) was a Swiss women's rights activist and politician ( FDP ).

Life

Quinche attended high school in Lausanne and graduated from the University of Lausanne in 1923 with a law degree . She was the first independent practicing lawyer in the canton of Vaud . From 1932 to 1935 she was president of the Swiss Association of Women Academics and from 1932 to 1959 of the Association vaudoise pour le suffrage féminin. From 1928 she was on the central board and from 1945 to 1951 Vice-President of the Swiss Association for Women's Suffrage.

From 1937 to 1952 Quinche was President of the Legal Studies and Insurance Commission of the Federation of Swiss Women's Associations (BSF) . She was a member of the federal expert commission for the revision of the civil rights law , founder of the FDP women's group in Lausanne and a member of the cantonal party leadership.

In 1952, Quinche and others requested entry in the electoral register of their community and their voting card. The communities refused, and Quinche went to federal court to claim their rights. The BG Lausanne rejected the action on the grounds that tradition outweighed the equality of rights enshrined in the constitution: "Le Tribunal fédéral considère de plus que l'introduction du suffrage féminin reviendrait à modifier un régime juridique profondément enraciné et qu ' elle ne pourrait dès lors avoir lieu que par une révision de la constitution et non par la simple voie de l'interprétation. ”(The Federal Supreme Court also states that the introduction of women's suffrage would change a deeply rooted legal order, and that is why it is only possible through a constitutional amendment and not through the simple route of interpretation.)

During the Spanish Civil War in 1937, Quinche translated the text La révolution espagnole vue par une républicaine by Clara Campoamor , who had enforced women's suffrage in Spain in 1931, from Spanish into French.

literature

• Bettina Vincenz: honest women or champions? The Swiss Association of Women Academics (SVA) in the interwar period . 1st edition. Lehmanns Media AG, Baden 2011, ISBN 978-3-03919-198-7 , pp. 246 .
• Bettina Vincenz: Antoinette Quinche (1896-1979). Women's rights activist with diplomatic skills . In: Swiss Association for Women's Rights (ed.): The struggle for equal rights . Basel 2009, ISBN 978-3-7965-2515-5 , pp. 345-352 .
• Regula Ludi : Quinche, Antoinette. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland ., 2011.
• Gazette de Lausanne , May 19, 1979.
• Pionnières et créatrices en Suisse romande , 2004, pp. 312-318.