Grete Schurz

Grete Schurz (born April 29, 1934 in Graz ) is a women's lobbyist and was the first women's representative in Austria.

Life

After graduating from high school, Schurz worked as a trainee at the daily mail and studied law . In a language course that she took on the side, she met her future husband, with whom she has two sons. She gave up her studies and her job with the Daily Mail to devote herself to her family for the next twenty years.

In 1974 she began studying psychology and sociology at the University of Graz . In addition, she held women's courses under the title “Emancipation in concrete terms” at the Urania People's Education Center in Graz and was committed to the implementation of her idea of a women's shelter in Graz, for which she founded the Graz Women's Initiative on March 13, 1980 - emergency aid for threatened and abused women and their children founded and took over its chairmanship. The first women's refuge in Graz was opened on December 12, 1981. In 1984 she completed her studies with the dissertation Destructive Obedience to Authorities .

In 1986, Mayor Alfred Stingl appointed Schurz as the first women's representative in Austria. In this position, which she held until 1994, she continued a. for family discounts on public transport and for the preferential allocation of community apartments to single mothers, as well as for a balanced gender ratio in the training of gynecologists, women's parking spaces in underground garages and the promotion of artistically active women. Proposals for new guidelines for the employment and promotion of personnel within the magistrate were also drawn up. On her initiative, the Graz Women's Council , which is unique in Austria , has an advisory role in the municipal council and to which around 50 women's groups and women's organizations from different autonomous, political and denominational directions as well as individuals belong. In addition to the goal of enforcing women's right to equal treatment and equal rights, the Women's Council was also an attempt for Schurz to practice solidarity with women across ideological boundaries. She was also co-editor of the Graz cultural magazine Eva & Co , in which she reported on feminist-oriented educational and cultural offers together with the Graz women's initiative .

Awards

Josef Krainer Prize for Social Initiatives, 1984
Great Golden Decoration of the State of Styria , 1994
Appointed “Citizen of the City of Graz”, 1995
Josef Krainer Home Prize, 2004
Ring of Honor of the City of Graz, 2010

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b ^c Siegfried Nagl : Awarding of the Ring of Honor of the City of Graz to Dr. ⁱⁿ Grete Schurz and Prof. Mag. theol. Ernst-Christian Gerhold. Festival meeting of the municipal council on November 18, 2010. (PDF) In: Official Gazette of the City of Graz. Magistrat Graz - President's Office, January 31, 2011, pp. 3–4 , accessed on December 4, 2015 .
↑ The formation of the association. Styrian women's shelters, accessed on December 4, 2015 ( The association originally named Graz women's initiative - emergency aid for threatened and abused women and their children has been called the Styrian women's shelter association since 2002 - association for emergency aid for threatened and abused women and their children ).

↑ Dr. Grete Schurz. (No longer available online.) City of Graz, archived from the original on December 8, 2015 ; Retrieved December 4, 2015 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.

↑ Grete Schurz: Women's Advice Center Graz . In: Verein Schulheft (ed.): Women learned out (= exercise book ). No. 46 . Jugend & Volk, Vienna, Munich 1987, ISBN 3-224-19394-8 , pp. 126–127 ( PDF [accessed December 4, 2015]). PDF ( Memento of the original from December 8, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) 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.

↑ Awarded the Josef Krainer Home Prize 2004 . Retrieved August 14, 2015.

personal data
SURNAME	Apron, Grete
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Austrian women's rights activist, Austria's first women's representative
DATE OF BIRTH	April 29, 1934
PLACE OF BIRTH	Graz

[Nagl-1] Siegfried Nagl : Awarding of the Ring of Honor of the City of Graz to Dr. ⁱⁿ Grete Schurz and Prof. Mag. theol. Ernst-Christian Gerhold. Festival meeting of the municipal council on November 18, 2010. (PDF) In: Official Gazette of the City of Graz. Magistrat Graz - President's Office, January 31, 2011, pp. 3–4 , accessed on December 4, 2015 .

[frauenhaeuser.at-2] The formation of the association. Styrian women's shelters, accessed on December 4, 2015 ( The association originally named Graz women's initiative - emergency aid for threatened and abused women and their children has been called the Styrian women's shelter association since 2002 - association for emergency aid for threatened and abused women and their children ).

[Stadt_Graz-3] Dr. Grete Schurz. (No longer available online.) City of Graz, archived from the original on December 8, 2015 ; Retrieved December 4, 2015 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2

[Schulheft-4] Grete Schurz: Women's Advice Center Graz . In: Verein Schulheft (ed.): Women learned out (= exercise book ). No. 46 . Jugend & Volk, Vienna, Munich 1987, ISBN 3-224-19394-8 , pp. 126–127 ( PDF [accessed December 4, 2015]). PDF ( Memento of the original from December 8, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) 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. @1@ 2

[5] Awarded the Josef Krainer Home Prize 2004 . Retrieved August 14, 2015.