Margrith Bigler-Eggenberger

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Margrith Bigler-Eggenberger (born March 14, 1933 in Henau, today Uzwil SG ) was elected as the first woman in Switzerland to be a substitute judge in 1972 and then in 1974 as the first full federal judge . From 1974 to 1994 she was the first female federal judge in Switzerland. She was also one of the first lecturers at the University of St. Gallen .

Live and act

Bigler-Eggenberger is a citizen of Köniz . She is the daughter of Mathias Eggenberger and was married to Kurt Bigler (1925–2007), survivor of the Holocaust and teacher at the Rorschach teacher training college , since 1959 . She studied law at the Universities of Geneva and Zurich . In 1959 she finished her studies with a criminological dissertation. In 1961 she was admitted to the bar in St. Gallen. In 1966 she was elected judge at the Social Insurance Court of the Canton of St. Gallen. Also in 1966 she took over a lectureship at the University of St. Gallen as one of the only two lecturers at the time. After her election as federal judge in 1974, three years after the introduction of women's suffrage , she remained the only female judge at the federal court for 17 years .

Margrith Bigler-Eggenberger is committed to social issues and advocates equal opportunities and equal rights . In her work she is primarily oriented towards individual justice and fights for the knowledge of other sciences to flow into jurisprudence. Bigler-Eggenberger received two honorary doctorates for her scientific services (1994 from the University of St. Gallen (HSG) and 2003 from the University of Friborg ).

She published on topics of equality between women and men , on marriage law and equal pay, as well as on topics of social security, discrimination and the situation of the disabled. Among other things, she wrote a basic work on the situation of women in social security and on discrimination against women.

Margrith Bigler-Eggenberger is Honorary President of the Swiss Institute for Feminist Law and Gender Law, FRI. In addition to her scientific and journalistic activities, she continued to work as a lecturer at the University of St. Gallen after retirement and set up a fund with which she supports legal psychological projects and further training on the one hand and wants to increase awareness of Holocaust education on the other.

Publications (selection)

dissertation

  • Bigler-Eggenberger, Margrith: On the problem of the late rehabilitation of recidivism criminals, Zurich, thesis. Zurich: University Press, 1959.

Books

  • Bigler-Eggenberger, Margrith: The struggle for equal rights: Voting right - a human right: For the discussion about women's right to vote and suffrage in the 1960s. In: Swiss Association for Women's Rights (ed.) (2009), Basel: Schwabe-Verlag.
  • Bigler-Eggenberger, Margrith: Et si la justice ôtait son bandeau? La jurisprudence du Tribunal fédéral sur l'égalité entre femmes et hommes. Geneva / Basel / Munich: Helbing & Lichtenhahn Verlag, 2003.
  • Bigler-Eggenberger, Margrith: Justitia's balance - daring Justitia? The case law of the Federal Supreme Court on equality between women and men. Geneva / Basel / Munich: Helbing & Lichtenhahn Verlag, 2003.
  • Bigler-Eggenberger, Margrith, Boehlen, Marie & Jost, Verena (eds.): "In unanimous cooperation ...", suggestions and explanations on the revision of family law in the Civil Code. Zurich: Foundation for Citizenship Education and Training Verlag, 1968.

Comments

  • Bigler-Eggenberger, Margrith (2003): Basel Commentary on Articles 11-21 of the Civil Code. In: Heinrich Honsell, Nedim Peter Vogt, Thomas Geiser (eds.), The Swiss Civil Code. Basel: Helbing & Lichtenhahn Verlag.
  • Bigler-Eggenberger, Margrith (2001): St. Galler Commentary on Art. 8 Para. 3 and 4, Art. 12 and 41 BV. In: Heinrich Honsell, Nedim Peter Vogt, Thomas Geiser (eds.), The Swiss Federal Constitution. Basel: Helbing & Lichtenhahn Verlag.
  • Bigler-Eggenberger, Margrith & Kaufmann, Claudia (Ed.) (1997): Commentary on the Equal Opportunities Act. Basel: Helbing Lichtenhahn Verlag.

literature

  • Between law and justice. Judges in the mirror of time . Editors: Revital Ludewig, Kathleen Weislehner, Evelyne Angehrn. Stämpfli Verlag AG, Bern 2007
  • Equality between women and men as a legal policy. Order, Festschrift for Margrith B.-Eggenberger , ed. by K. Klett, D. Yersin, 1993, (with font index)

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personal data
SURNAME Bigler-Eggenberger, Margrith
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss lawyer and federal judge
DATE OF BIRTH March 14, 1933
PLACE OF BIRTH Henau, today Uzwil SG