Lisel Bruggmann

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Lisel Bruggmann (born July 21, 1900 in Weinfelden , † July 6, 1973 in Zurich ), née Elise Blunk , was a German - Swiss communist and trade unionist . She was an important figure in the communist women's movement in Switzerland.

biography

Bruggmann was born Elise Blunk on July 21, 1900 as the daughter of the painter Max Blunk and Elise Blunk (née Schneider) in Weinfelden . Soon after her birth, the family moved first to Winterthur and a little later to the then still independent community of Seen (now the city district of Winterthur), where Elise grew up. After completing secondary school , she worked as an unskilled worker in the Sidi silk weaving mill , as the family could not afford the training she wanted to become a teacher. She later worked as a hotel employee and waitress in Ticino and worked in other factories in Bern , Schaffhausen and Winterthur. After 1930 she was a representative for various companies in the textile and food industry.

She joined the socialist Free Youth in 1916 and was one of the founders of the Old Communist Party in 1918 , which joined the Communist Party founded in 1921 . In 1920 she got Swiss citizenship through her marriage to Hans Bruggmann in Degersheim . In 1927 she traveled to the Soviet Union as a secretary with the first Swiss workers' delegation . She was committed to the introduction of the AHV , which was rejected by the people in the 1930s and was only introduced after the Second World War . Under various pseudonyms , she wrote articles and poems in the agitprop style in workers' magazines and on leaflets .

She died in Zurich on July 6, 1973 at the age of 72. The Unionsverlag published texts by Bruggmann posthumously in 1975 as the first book of the newly founded publisher and had the first book followed by another in 1980.

Works

  • I wish you the earthquake. Poems and stories from the struggle of the Swiss working class . Unionsverlag, Zurich 1975, ISBN 3-293-00001-0 .
  • Necessity is the mother of invention. Poems and stories from the struggle of the Swiss working class . Unionsverlag, Zurich 1980, ISBN 3-293-00015-0 .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b c Peter Niederhäuser: A communist with Seem roots - Lisel Bruggmann . In: Seemer Bote . No. 208 . Winterthur September 2009, p. 4 ( seen.ch [PDF; accessed on May 21, 2017]).

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personal data
SURNAME Bruggmann, Lisel
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bruggmann, Elise
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss communist
DATE OF BIRTH July 21, 1900
PLACE OF BIRTH Weinfelden
DATE OF DEATH July 6, 1973
Place of death Zurich