Clara Ragaz

Anno 1923: Clara Ragaz with her husband Leonhard

Clara Ragaz , b. Nadig (born March 30, 1874 in Chur , † October 7, 1957 in Zurich ) was a Swiss women's rights activist and peace activist . Clara Ragaz was vice-president of the International Women's League for Peace and Freedom for a number of years , and until 1946 she was chairwoman of the Swiss branch.

Ragaz's work is permeated with a mixture of religiosity and socialism. Since 1901 she was married to the theology professor Leonhard Ragaz , who is considered one of the founders of Religious Socialism .

Works

• The woman and the peace. Orell Füssli, Zurich 1915.
• The next war. After Will Irwin 's The Next War . Lecture, Zurich 1925.
• Report on the international rally for world disarmament of the IFFF. Zurich 1932.
• (with Marta Schüepp :) Air protection? A word for clarification. Zurich 1938.

literature

• Clara Ragaz-Nadig (1874–1957). Zurich 1957. (Abdication speech, funeral speech, biography and poems by Clara Ragaz-Nadig.)
• Marianne Fleischhack: Fulfilled life. Six images of life. Articles about Karl Thylmann , Clara Ragaz-Nadig, Katalin Gerö , Selma Lagerlöf , Caspar René Gregory , Caroline Perthes . Evangelical Publishing House, Berlin 1971.
• Swiss Lexicon. Volume 5, Verlag Schweizer Lexikon, Lucerne 1993.
• Brigitte Studer: Ragaz (-Nadig), Clara. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
• Isabella Wohlgemut: Against injustice and violence: Clara Ragaz-Nadig (1874–1957): from social concerns to the peace movement . In: Doris Brodbeck, Yvonne Domhardt, Judith Stofer (eds.): See, I create something new. Women's awakenings into Protestantism, Catholicism, Christian Catholicism and Judaism. eFeF-Verl., Bern 1998, pp. 17–32.

Web links

• Literature by and about Clara Ragaz in the catalog of the German National Library
• Biographical reference to Clara and Leonhard Ragaz