Elisabeth Zellweger

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Elisabeth Zellweger (born on March 2, 1884 in Reute ; died on July 15, 1957 in Basel ) was a Swiss women's rights activist , journalist and church activist.

Life

Elisabeth Zellweger was the daughter of the ex-pastor and newspaper publisher Otto Zellweger ( Basler Nachrichten ) and his wife Lily Steiger , who was a very committed woman, among other things, in the moral movement .

Zellweger attended the Social Women's School in Berlin , where she a. a. studied with Alice Salomon. She then completed further training in London. There she met u. a. the suffragettes . After the mother's death in 1914 until the father's death in 1933, she took care of the household. As a sideline she was a journalist for her father's paper, the Basler Nachrichten . In 1923 she became an editor in a press organ of the moral movement, the Aufgewaut! God trusts! She carried out other journalistic activities from 1947 to 1951 for Die Evangelische Schweizerfrau and from 1951 for the Schweizerischer Beobachter .

Zellweger was also involved in the Swiss women's movement : in 1916 she co-founded the “ Women's Headquarters Basel” and was its first president until 1918. From 1917/1918 she was represented on the board of the « Federation of Swiss Women's Associations » (BSF) and was its president from 1920 to 1929. After that, too, stayed longer on the BSF board. From 1930 to 1936 she was a board member and secretary in the International Women's Council and from 1936 its vice-president.

Zellweger was organized in church from 1927 as a co-founder of the Association for Inner Mission and Christian Charity . In 1936 she sat in the synod of the Basel Evangelical Reformed Church. From 1946 to 1949 she was president of the "Swiss Evangelical Association for Women Aid". In 1947 she achieved her long-pursued goal of merging the reformed women's organizations in Switzerland to form the " Evangelical Women's Federation of Switzerland ". She died unmarried and childless in 1957.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Verena E. Müller : Women for Women - then and now. Swiss Evangelical Women's Aid - a chapter in Swiss history. Bern 2005, Ed .: SEF Commission for Archiving, p. 88
personal data
SURNAME Zellweger, Elisabeth
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss women's rights activist, journalist and church activist
DATE OF BIRTH March 2, 1884
PLACE OF BIRTH Tail
DATE OF DEATH July 15, 1957
Place of death Basel