Helene Stucki

Helene Stucki (born September 22, 1889 in Bern , † November 21, 1988 there ; entitled to live in Konolfingen ) was a Swiss educator and women's rights activist .

Life

Stucki was born as the daughter of the teacher Gottlieb Stucki and the teacher Marie Luise Rothacher. Helene's brother Walter Stucki graduated from university with a law degree and began a career as a diplomat. As a woman, Stucki was only able to train as a secondary school teacher in a roundabout way in 1913 . After stays abroad and further studies, she taught at the secondary and advanced training school of the Monbijou girls' school in Bern. After a semester of study in Vienna in 1931 , she was chosen to teach pedagogy , psychology and methodology at the Marzili Teachers' Seminar , where she introduced the training school and rural internships for seminarians.

Act

Work as a teacher

Stucki dealt with questions of child psychology and methodology. She not only dealt theoretically with progressive education for girls and teachers, but was also one of the teachers who got young girls enthusiastic about good vocational training and women's rights. She propagated the university training and stated: "Emancipation is on quiet feet." Stucki was involved in adult education. She was a sought-after speaker, co-author and published frequently. She wrote dozens of articles for the Schweizerische Lehrerinnen-Zeitung. In 1950 she and others published the Pedagogical Lexicon.

After her retirement in 1960, she developed an educational program for nursery teachers at the women's school in the city of Bern.

Work as a women's rights activist

Committed to women's politics , Helene Stucki headed the education group at SAFFA in 1928. In 1929 she played a key role in the petition for women's right to vote and suffrage , one of the most signatures in the history of Swiss petitioning rights. Stucki was committed to democracy and was a member of the board of the national umbrella organization, the Federation of Swiss Women's Associations (BSF, today alliance F). In 1919 she co-founded the BSF magazine, the Schweizer Frauenblatt. She was a member of the Bern women's suffrage association and the cantonal women's center , and took part in the Swiss women's congresses. In her functions she also helped to fight for women's right to vote and suffrage, which she still experienced in 1971.

Honors

For her work in the field of psychology and the upbringing of women, the “pioneering girl educator” was awarded the Dr. hc from the University of Bern. She was also an honorary member of the BSF.

Works

• Liberate and bind as a problem in today's school, 1931.
• The young girl, 1931.
• Women shared responsibility for maintaining and renewing Swiss democracy, 1938.
• From Asking, 1942.
• Relationships between the State and Women, 1945/1946.
• The way of life of working unmarried women, 1947.
• Childhood Memories, 1950.
• Lexicon of Pedagogy in 3 volumes, 1950–1952.
• Problems of the Unmarried Woman, 1952.
• Infant Psychology and Education, 1952.
• Education and Freedom in the Life of Women, 1954.
• Woman as an educator, 1958.
• Mother, Child and Play, 1960.
• You and the child, 1962.
• The first years, 1964.
• Grateful Life, 1971.

Archives

• AGoF Gosteli Foundation, Worblaufen, Helene Stucki estate, No. 515

literature

• Anna Bähler Lüthi: Helene Stucki. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
• Schweizer Frauenblatt, 1965, No. 12.
• Der Bund, September 21, 1979; November 26, 1988.
• Schweizerische Lehrerinnen-Zeitung, 63/12 (1958–1959)
• Florian Christen: "Relations between the state and women". «Political» concepts and practices Helene Stuckis (1889–1988). 2015
• Susanne Buri: Motherhood and “female” employment - the educational efforts of the Bernese pedagogue Helene Stucki (1889–1988) for women. 1997.
• Ursula Renold: "Where the masculine begins, the feminine ends". 1998
• Franziska Rogger: Marthe Gosteli. 2017.