Elisabeth Flühmann

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Elisabeth Flühmann (born January 3, 1851 in Schwandholz near Krattigen , † March 13, 1929 in Aarau ) was a Swiss educator and women's rights activist .

Life

Elisabeth Flühmann was the youngest child of Margaritha and Johannes Flühmann-Wyss, a gunsmith who had moved from Saxeten . In 1867 she entered the secondary girls' school in Bern , where she was a student of Josef Viktor Widmann . In 1870 she completed her training as a teacher. In the same year, the 19-year-old was employed in Wengen , where she stayed for four years. In the winter semester of 1874/75 she was matriculated at the Philosophical Faculty of the University of Zurich . In 1877 she was appointed to teach German at the newly founded Greek teacher training college in Serres in Ottoman Macedonia . In 1880 he was elected to the Aarau Teachers' College , the forerunner organization of today's New Aarau Cantonal School . She was hired for the subjects of history, church history, geography, gymnastics and Italian. In 1888 Flühmann played a central role in founding the Aargau Teachers Association; she was also a co-initiator of the Swiss teachers' home in Bern.

After retiring in 1915, Flühmann intensified her involvement in the women's movement . She was one of the driving forces behind the Aargau women's suffrage campaign of 1919 (7,000 signatures). She wrote publications on women's suffrage and founded the Association for Women's Education and Women's Issues, from which the Aargau Women's Headquarters emerged in 1921 as an amalgamation of the women's associations active in the canton.

With her journalistic work, her activity in numerous associations and many personal relationships (for example with Emma Pieczynska-Reichenbach , Pauline Chaponnière-Chaix and Helene von Mülinen ) Flühmann was a key figure in the Swiss women's movement. Elisabeth Flühmann's students were Maja Winteler-Einstein , Mathilde Lejeune-Jehle and Sophie Haemmerli-Marti .

Flühmann remained single; from 1892 she lived in Aarau with Clara Nadig from Chur. Two of the latter's nieces, including Clara Nadig of the same name , who later became the wife of the religious socialist Leonhard Ragaz , also attended the Aarau teacher training college.

The estate of Elizabeth Flühmann located in the State Archives of Aargau .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Baptismal register of the parish of Aeschi, entry from January 19, 1851.
  2. ↑ http://www.matrikel.uzh.ch/

Works

  • A walk through the history of Europe since the Vienna Congress: a series of lectures given in 1915/16 in Aarau, Olten and Basel. Sauerlander, Aarau 1917.
  • Of the things that led to the world war: According to today's knowledge, clear. summarized representation. Sauerlander, Aarau 1918.
  • On the question of women's suffrage: Lecture from a historical perspective. Orell Füssli, Zurich 1919.

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personal data
SURNAME Flühmann, Elisabeth
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss educator and women's rights activist
DATE OF BIRTH January 3, 1851
PLACE OF BIRTH Schwandholz at Krattigen
DATE OF DEATH March 13, 1929
Place of death Aarau