Lily Zellweger-Steiger

Lily Zellweger-Steiger (born April 14, 1862 in Herisau , † July 13, 1914 in Basel ; resident in Trogen ) was a Swiss pastor from the canton of Appenzell Ausserrhoden .

Life

Lily Zellweger-Steiger was a daughter of Jakob Steiger and sister of Jakob Steiger and Ernst Steiger. In 1883 she married Otto Zellweger . The Zellweger, who grew up in a religiously and socially committed family, spent a year in Welschland before completing a nursing internship in Germany . As a pastor's wife, she was active in charities and promoted handicraft lessons for girls. In Bad Boll , Württemberg , she met the theologian Christoph Blumhardt , who shaped her. From 1884 she worked for the Appenzeller Sunday newspaper edited by her husband . In 1895 the couple moved to Basel , where Zellweger joined the moral movement. From 1901 to 1914 she presided over the Basel Association for the Improvement of Morality and initiated rescue institutions for single mothers as well as social welfare institutions for women. In 1901 she was a co-founder and until 1910 the first president of the Association of German-Swiss Associations for the Improvement of Morality .

literature

• Otto Zellweger: Mrs. Pastor Zellweger: a picture of life. Basler Druck- und Verlaganstalt, Basel 1915.
• Swiss women's calendar: Yearbook of Swiss women. 7th year. Sauerländer, Aarau 1917, pp. 107–118.
• EH Zellweger: Lilly Zellweger-Steiger. In: Committed to the Reformation: Shaping and shaping the city and landscape of Basel from five centuries: 450 years of Reformation. Ed. Church Council of the Evangelical Reformed Church in Basel-Stadt. Merian, Basel 1979, pp. 137-140.

Web links

• Regula Ludi: Lily Zellweger-Steiger. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . January 24, 2013 , accessed July 30, 2020 .

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