Freethinkers Association of Switzerland
The Freethinkers Association of Switzerland ( FVS ), also Freigeistige Association of Switzerland called, is a Swiss association of freethinkers .
history
The German-Swiss Freethinker Association was constituted in 1908, merged with freethinker groups from western Switzerland and Ticino , and maintained close relationships with German freethinkers (see also German Freethinkers Association ). At first, the club grew rapidly; Due to the war, growth stagnated during the First World War ; A renewed upswing followed in the interwar period ; the Great Depression and the Second World War brought setbacks again.
In 1933, the National Councilor Hans Müller launched an advance against the free thinkers as a movement that actively combats the Christian faith and thus endangers religious peace . The motion submitted as a motion was transferred as a postulate by the National Council on June 22, 1933 with 70 against 47 votes and subsequently rejected by the Federal Council . Important Swiss freethinkers were the pedagogue Ernst Brauchlin , the businessman Otto Kunz and the writer Jakob Stebler ; Konrad Farner was in contact with the association. In 2011, the Swiss Freethinkers Association had around 1,800 members.
Freethinker Award
On 9 October 2015, the Swiss Freethinkers first awarded the 10,000 francs freethinkers price . It went to Ensaf Haidar , Raif Badawi and Waleed Abulkhair for their courageous commitment to humanistic and secular values in Saudi Arabia. In future, the Freethinker Prize will be awarded every two years and will be financed through an inheritance.
Publications
Magazines
- think freely. Quarterly publication (from 2010), successor to Der Schweizer Freidenker. Organ of the Freethinkers of German Switzerland (1918-21), Freedom of the Mind: Organ of the Freethinking Association of Switzerland (1922-26), Freethinkers. Organ of the Free Spiritual Association of Switzerland (1927–52), Liberation: Journal for Critical Thinking. Monthly, ed. from the Free Spiritual Association of Switzerland and the German Monist Association (1953–55) and free thinker. Monthly publication of the Swiss Freethinkers Association (1956–2010)
- Le libre penseur. Quarterly 1974–.
- Libero pensiero. Quarterly publication 1982–1995, 2009–
Books
- Leo Heinrich Skrbensky . The church blesses the oath: the prelude to the spiritual bondage of Austria. Free Spiritual Association of Switzerland, 1935.
- Ernst Brauchlin . 13 conversations with a free thinker. Free Spiritual Association of Switzerland, 1953.
- Ernst Brauchlin. God spoke to himself. Free Spiritual Association of Switzerland, 1959.
items
- Declaration of the free-spirited association of Switzerland. In: Zofinger Tagblatt , October 17, 1963.
literature
- W. Baumgartner: Freethinking yesterday and today. 1983
- Robert Barth: Freethinkers - Monists - Godless. In: Theological Journal . 41, 1985, pp. 412-433.
- Georg Schmid , Oswald Eggenberger : Churches, sects, religions. Religious communities, ideological groups and psycho-organizations in the German-speaking area: a manual. Theological Publishing House Zurich (TVZ), Zurich 2003, p. 466.
Web links
- www.frei-haben.ch
- Holdings: Free Spiritual Association of Switzerland, Lucerne local group in the finding aids of the Swiss Social Archives
- Complete historical editions of the members' magazine, digitized by the Swiss National Library
- Rudolf Dellsperger: Freethinkers. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Freethinker Award 2015 goes to Ensaf Haidar, Raif Badawi and Waleed Abulkhair . In: FVS website . Freethinkers Association of Switzerland. October 10, 2015. Archived from the original on October 11, 2015. Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved May 11, 2016.
