Ludovica Hainisch-Marchet

Ludovica Hainisch-Marchet (born June 29, 1901 in Vienna , † August 22, 1993 in Überlingen ) was an Austrian educator and women's rights activist.

Ludovica Marchet was born in 1901 as the daughter of Emilie and Dr. Gustav Marchet born. Her father was the rector of the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences and a liberal politician in the Reichsrat . 1906–1908 Gustav Marchet kk was Minister of Education.

From 1923 to 1929 she worked in the secretariat of the legal section of the League of Nations in Geneva . From 1929 to 1933 she completed a teaching degree for German and French in Vienna. In 1933 she married Dr. Erwin Hainisch and taught at a secondary school in Linz. The marriage was divorced in 1937. Her long-term colleague Rudolf Kießlinger was her later life partner.

A lifelong friendship began in the 1930s with Paul and Edith Geheeb , heads of a non-violent school, first in Germany ( Odenwaldschule ), then in Goldern ( Hasliberg ) in Switzerland , and with Mathilde Vaerting . From 1934 to 1936 she was the editor of the monthly “Europa Echo, the paper for international understanding”, with content on international understanding , the women's movement , art and literature .

In autumn 1938 she emigrated to Italy and in 1939 to Sweden before the outbreak of war . In 1949 she returned to Vienna. She worked for world federalism , propagated new methods of soil maintenance in agriculture, non-violent upbringing, the involvement of women in political events and new forms of the monetary economy. In the federal presidential election in 1951 , she was the first woman ever to stand as a non-party candidate, but only achieved 2,132 votes (just under 0.05%).

This was followed by lecture tours on the subject of floor care by Raoul Heinrich Francé , lectures on education based on the model of Paulus Geheeb's "École d'Humanité" in Switzerland, on the power psychology of Mathilde Vaerting. In 1956 she moved to Germany. She continued to work on translations, gave language classes (nine languages), lectured and wrote newspaper articles.

Ludovica Hainisch-Marchet died on August 22, 1993 in Überlingen on Lake Constance .

Web links

• Short biography of the University of Vienna