Dora Julia Rittmeyer-Iselin

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Dora Julia Rittmeyer-Iselin (born March 6, 1902 in Basel ; died August 8, 1974 in St. Gallen ) was a Swiss musicologist and women's rights activist .

Life

Dora Julia Iselin was the daughter of the entrepreneur Alfred Iselin and his wife Sophie, née Vischer. She studied musicology as well as English and French philosophy in Basel, Munich and Berlin . In Berlin she obtained her doctorate in 1928 with the work Biagio Marini , his life and his instrumental works (dissertation printed in 1930).

In 1929 she married the FDP politician Ludwig Rittmeyer (1897–1963) and moved with him to St. Gallen. From there she wrote as a concert critic for Garbe magazine until 1936 . From 1936 she was a lecturer in musicology at the St. Gallen Commercial College .

She joined the Swiss women's movement in 1931 and was a co-founder of the Swiss Association of Women Academics . From 1936 to 1948 she was President of St. Gallen Aid for Emigrant Children and from 1945 to 1960 President of the St. Gallen Women's Center . In 1958 she worked at the second SAFFA in Zurich . From 1954 to 1973 she sat on the central board of the broadcasting corporation SRG SSR .

From 1959 to 1965 she was President of the Federation of Swiss Women's Associations , where she was a board member until 1971. In 1961 she was also a co-founder of the Center Europeén du conseil international des femmes (CECIF).

Even after the death of her husband in 1966, she remained politically active. In 1968 she became President of CECIF and from 1969 took part in meetings of the Council of Europe in Strasbourg as its representative . She held this office until 1971.

She was related by marriage to the art historian Dora Fanny Rittmeyer (1892–1966).

Dora Julia Rittmeyer-Iselin died on August 8, 1974 at the age of 72 in St. Gallen.

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