Louise Grütter

Anna Louise Grütter (born September 17, 1879 in Hindelbank ; † March 12, 1959 in Bern ), entitled to live in Seeberg, was a Swiss seminar and advanced training teacher, youth advocate for women's rights activists , active member of women's education and the national and international women's movement .

Life and work

Anna Louise Grütter grew up with ten siblings in the reformed parsonage in Hindelbank , where the teachers' seminar was housed and her father Karl was the seminary director and pastor. Before she could study at the university, she had to take the female detour that was customary at the time. First she passed the patent exam as a primary school teacher at the age of 16, then helped her mother, the teacher Anna Maria Grütter-Isler, with the extensive household and worked in England. Finally, she was able to attend the teacher training school at the University of Bern and, while working, do her doctorate with the dissertation "Choice of material and independent work in free essays" and work as a teacher.

As a woman at the time, she was excluded from a higher teaching career at a public high school. For well over three decades, Dr. Grütter from 1905 to 1942 at the New Girls School NMS in Bern. Around 1930 she helped develop the senior department into a diploma class.

Grütter became active in the national and international bodies of the voting rights movement in the 1920s . From 1926 to 1941 she chaired the Bern voting rights association. She was an active participant in the Second Swiss Congress for Women's Interests in 1921, in the SAFFA in 1928 and the Swiss petition for women's rights to vote and suffrage in 1929. From 1929 to 1958 she worked on the board of directors of the Bernese women's association (today women's center). She co-founded the association of Bernese academics in 1923. In 1933 she helped set up the non-partisan and interdenominational Swiss working group «Women and Democracy», which was directed against front-line movements and dictatorships and publicly supported Swiss democracy . In the Federation of Swiss Women's Associations, Grütter worked from 1936 to 1946 as Commission President for Peace Work. During the Second World War, she also headed the Bern relief organization for émigré children, and worked in the Evangelical Women's Association and in the International Women's League for Peace and Freedom IFFF.

Honor

The Anna Louise Grütter Fund was set up in her honor.

Works

• Grütter Anna-Luise, Schattenrisse, Bern, 600 years in the Confederation, in: Der Bund June 13, 1953
• Women in public life, Des entraves que met au travail social des femmes leur minorité politique: conférence / A. Jomini, Bern 1923

Archives

• Archive Gosteli Foundation (AGoF), Worblaufen

literature

• Agnes Debrit-Vogel: "Fräulein Doktor Grütter", in: Frauen-Zeitung Berna, April 10, 1942
• Thoughts of Dr. A. Louise Grütter, 1879-1959. Excerpts from letters to the members of the Ecclesiastical Working Group for the Canton of Bern, 1959
• Dr. phil. Anna Louise Grütter 1879-1959, compiled by Agnes Debrit-Vogel, Bern 1959
• Women's newspaper Berna, No. 9, 1959
• Vincenz Bettina, honest women or champions? The Swiss Association of Women Academics (SVA) in the interwar period 1924-1939, Baden 2011
• Forgotten history, illustrated chronicle of the women's movement: 1914-1963, Bern 2000/2002.
• Rogger Franziska, Give the Swiss women their story, Zurich 2015.

Web links

• Regula Ludi : Grütter, Anna Louise. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .

Individual evidence

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