Coop Women's Federation Switzerland

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The Swiss Consumer Cooperative Federation (KFS) was created in 1922 from the amalgamation of the consumer cooperative women's commissions that arose in most of the larger towns in German-speaking Switzerland between the turn of the century and the First World War . The new association should on the one hand promote the idea of cooperatives , on the other hand encourage women to get involved in their interests as consumers.

From 1929 to 1943 Rosa Münch led the organization as president.

In 1935, the French-speaking Swiss left the Confederation for the whole of Switzerland and founded the Union des Coopératices Romandes .

In 1969 the KFS was renamed to its current name.

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• R. Münch: Der Konsumgenossenschaftliche Frauenbund der Schweiz , in: Die Frau in der Schweiz: Illustrated yearbook for women's aspirations, 1932/32, issue 5. doi : 10.5169 / seals-327549 (PDF)
• Document collection in the Swiss Economic Archives : brochures, illustrations 1928-1972 and statutes, regulations 1946-1970

Web links

• Archive holdings Coop Frauenbund, AGoF 154 in the Gosteli Foundation's finding aids , archive on the history of the Swiss women's movement

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Markus Brunner: The cooperative amalgamation: with special consideration of a comparative presentation of the consumer cooperative situation in Switzerland and Austria . Stämpfli, 1951, p. 23 ( google.ch [accessed on January 27, 2018]).