Hilde Vérène Borsinger

Hilde Vérène Borsinger (born May 30, 1897 in Baden , † January 21, 1986 in Lucerne ) was a Swiss lawyer , editor and women's rights activist.

biography

Borsinger was the daughter of the hotel owner Joseph Anton Borsinger in the bathing district of Baden and Hedwig Beck from Sursee . Her brother Paul Borsinger , economist and journalist, was the first director of the Swiss Shortwave Service at SRG . After school education in Bregenz and Geneva and at the Minerva Institute in Zurich, which was founded in 1904, Hilde Borsinger studied law at the University of Zurich from 1924 to 1929 and then in Munich. In 1930 she received her doctorate with a dissertation on the position of women in the Catholic Church.

From 1931 to 1933 she worked as an assistant director for Caritas Switzerland . In 1932 she founded the working group of female Catholic youth in Switzerland and in the same year the Club Hrotsvit with several women writers and artists . From 1933 to 1949 she was the editor of the magazine “The Catholic Swiss” of the Swiss Catholic Women's Association ( SKF).

Hilde Borsinger also maintained contacts with legally and culturally active women on an international level. Since the 1930s she had been on friendly terms with the Jewish-German writer Edith Stein , whom she also tried to win as a member of the Hrotsvit Club. Stein lived as a Carmelite since 1933 in Cologne and since 1938 with her sister Rosa Stein in the Karmel Echt in the Netherlands. When Stein saw persecution by the Third Reich regime coming in the Netherlands in 1941, Borsinger advocated the timely departure of the two sisters and their admission to the Carmel of Le Pâquier in the canton of Friborg The Swiss immigration police and the German occupation authorities in the Netherlands failed, whereupon Edith and Rosa Stein lost their lives on August 9, 1942 in the Auschwitz-Birkenau extermination camp .

During the Second World War, Hilde Borsinger was involved in the women's service and as a journalist for the Swiss Reconnaissance Service. With lectures and through her association activities, especially in the Swiss Catholic Women's Association, she campaigned for public activities by women and for women's suffrage in Switzerland. She was a co-founder of the Student Office for Young People in Basel , a member of the Board of Trustees of the Pro Helvetia Foundation and a member of the Swiss Association of Women Academics.

In 1953 the government council of the canton of Basel-Stadt elected Hilde Borsinger as the first woman in Switzerland to the office of criminal judge.

In 1950 Borsinger was a delegate at the UNESCO General Conference in Florence. In September 1953 she appeared as a speaker on the occasion of the establishment of the European Women's Union in Salzburg . Her lecture was devoted to the topic of the social position of working women . Since 1962, Hilde Borsinger has been involved in setting up the Swiss working group in the European Women's Union.

Works

• The status of women in the Catholic Church. Borna; Leipzig: R. Noske 1930 (Diss. Iur. Univ. Zurich)
• (Collaboration :) People and work of the confederates: A handbook of patriotic knowledge and will. With the collaboration of Anton Auf der Maur, Oskar Bauhofer, Dr. Hilde Vérène Borsinger; under the protectorate of the Swiss. Catholic People's Association and the Swiss. Catholic Women's Association hrg. by Hans Dommann and Eugen Vogt; Drawings and cover by Werner Andermatt. Lucerne: Rex-Verlag 1940
• The cultural significance of the Swiss woman in the family and in the fatherland. Lucerne: Swiss Catholic Women's Federation 1945

literature

• Christa's mother: Hilde Vérène Borsinger. In: Steps ins Offene , 21, 1991, No. 4, pp. 34-37.
• Doris Brodbeck (inter alia): See, I am creating something new: the departure of women into Protestantism, Catholicism, Christian Catholicism and Judaism. Bern 1998, p. 89ff.
• Christa's mother: Hilde Vérène Borsinger - My country, Switzerland, has proven to be incapable of saving a woman as great as Edith Stein. In: Waltraud Herbstrith: Edith Steins supporters. Known and unknown helpers during the Nazi dictatorship. Berlin 2010, pp. 61–64.

Web links

• Regula Ludi : Borsinger, Hilde Vérène. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
• Publications by and about Hilde Borsinger in the Helveticat catalog of the Swiss National Library
• Catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

1. ^ Andreas Steigmeier: Borsinger, Paul. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
2. ^ Matriculation of the University of Zurich
3. ^ On the position of Hilde Borsinger in the SKF: Mutter 2010, p. 64.
4. ^ Letter from Edith Stein to Hilde Vérène Borsinger from July 4, 1933. In: Edith Stein. Self-Portrait in Letters (1916–1933) , Volume 1, No. 271.
5. ↑ Edith Stein Yearbook 2007, p. 181.
6. ↑ Mutter 2010, pp. 61–64.
7. ↑ History of the EUW  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.