Jeanne Eder-Schwyzer

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Jeanne Eder-Schwyzer (born on March 2, 1894 in New York , died on October 24, 1957 in Zurich , resident in Zurich) was a Swiss women's rights activist .

Life

Jeanne Schwyzer was the daughter of the doctor Fritz Schwyzer and grew up in New York. She studied chemistry at the University of Zurich and received her doctorate in 1919. The following year she married the chemist and professor of  pharmacognosy  and  pharmaceutical chemistry Robert Eder (1885–1944) and was the mother of two daughters, the physicist Monika Eder and the author and Gertrude Stein expert Ursula Elisabeth Eder, known under the name Ulla Dydo .

Eder-Schwyzer was involved in the women's suffrage petition in 1929 and in the establishment of the Swiss Association of Women Academics , of which she was president from 1935 to 1938. From 1939 she was active in women's politics on several levels: as president of the free-spirited women's group in Zurich, which she co-founded in 1935; as well as President of the Association for Women's Suffrage (SVF) in the Canton of Zurich ; as well as in the civil women's service , from which she left in 1945. In 1946 she headed the 3rd Swiss Women's Congress and was subsequently involved in setting up the Swiss Institute for Housekeeping (SIH, 1948–1992). From its founding in 1947 to 1950, she was also President of the women's group of the Swiss Reconnaissance Service . It was “driven by the endeavor to promote solidarity among women across all borders.”

From 1949 to 1957 she was a board member of the Federation of Swiss Women's Associations (BSF) and was delegated by the BSF to the Swiss UNESCO Commission from 1949 to 1954 . From 1947 until her death she was President of the International Women's Council .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Regula Ludi: Eder, Jeanne. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
  2. ↑ Abraham Seiden: Proceedings of Physics in Collision 4 . Atlantica Séguier Frontières, 1984, ISBN 978-2-86332-030-3 ( google.es [accessed October 30, 2017]).
  3. ↑ Verena Bodmer-Gessner: The Zurich women. Brief cultural history of the women of Zurich, Verlagberichthaus Zürich, 1961, p. 147.
  4. ↑ Dr. Jeanne Eder-Schwyzer | University Women's International Networks Database. Retrieved August 9, 2019 .
  5. ^ History of ICW
personal data
SURNAME Eder-Schwyzer, Jeanne
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Eder, Jeanne; Schwyzer, Jeanne (single name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss women's rights activist
DATE OF BIRTH March 2, 1894
PLACE OF BIRTH New York City
DATE OF DEATH October 24, 1957
Place of death Zurich