Klara Honegger

Klara Honegger (born May 29, 1860 in Zurich ; died April 11, 1940 there ) was a Swiss women's rights activist .

Life

Klara Honegger was the daughter of the educator Kaspar Honegger and his wife Rosalia, nee Hasler.

She was first involved in the moral movement , then for political equality for women. In 1896, as a colleague of Emma Boos-Jegher, she was part of the founding group of the “Union for Women's Desires Zurich”, of which she was president from 1903 to 1911. In 1909 she was also a founding member of the Swiss Association for Women's Suffrage . From 1904 to 1921 she was the editor of the magazine Frauenbestrebungen , later also editor of the Schweizer Frauenblatt .

At the Federation of Swiss Women's Associations , which she co-founded in 1899/1900, she was a member of the board from 1905, and was president from 1911 to 1916. In 1914 she took part in setting up the Zurich women's headquarters .

She was close to the religious socialism movement and in 1915 she joined the peace movement . She became a member of a “Women's Association for the Promotion of International Unity” and was a founding member of the Swiss Committee of the International Women's League for Peace and Freedom (IFFF). She also sat on the board of the Swiss Central Office for Peace Work for a long time. After 1933 she worked in the "Working Group on Women and Democracy".

Honegger remained single.

literature

• Marthe Gosteli (ed.): Forgotten history. Illustrated chronicle of the women's movement, 1914–1963. Stämpfli, Bern 2000, vol. 2, p. 610.
• Regula Ludi : Honegger, Klara. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Life dates differing by one day each May 28 / April 12 according to: Ursula Köhler-Lutterbeck, Monika Siedentopf: Lexicon of 1000 women. Dietz, Bonn 2000, ISBN 3-8012-0276-3 , p. 156.