Eugen Münch (politician)

Eugen Münch (born December 20, 1880 in Zurich , † August 9, 1919 in Bern ) was a Swiss politician ( SP ).

Life

Eugen Münch was born as the son of Gottlieb Münch, hairdresser and his wife Margaretha Friederike Hartmann. His father died in his childhood, so he came to live with foster parents in the Zurich Oberland .

After completing an apprenticeship as a typographer at the Gutenberg book printer in Wald near Zurich, he then worked in Frauenfeld , Lachen and Münsingen .

From 1900 he worked in Bern as a freelance journalist for the twice-weekly newspaper Berner Tagwacht ; in the same year he also joined the Social Democratic Party (SP) Bern . In 1904 he was elected President of the SP section Bern North and remained in this office until 1915. Since 1912 he was the secretary of the SP of the canton of Bern , also in that year he was elected to the city council. In 1914 he joined the Bernese Grand Council and in 1919 became a delegate in the management of the Social Democratic Party of Switzerland (SPS).

He was involved as a member of the guardianship authority, school maintenance and the board of directors of the consumer association . He was an important representative of the Bernese party left, was very committed to women's suffrage and pioneered the establishment of the party secretariat for the Canton of Bern.

Eugen Münch was married to Luise (born April 28, 1879; † unknown), daughter of Alfred Oberholzer (1856–1924), a shoemaker in Wald near Zurich, since September 23, 1901, and they had five children together. After his death, his wife was elected as the successor to the Swiss management at the Basel party congress in order to be able to continue her husband's work.

Eugen Münch died in August 1919 while bathing in the Aare .

Web links

• Leyla Gül: Münch, Eugen. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Maxim Gorki: The pioneer: defends the interests of working women. In: Volume 14, Issue 9. 1919, accessed on February 14, 2019 .