Maria Ursula Waser

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Maria Ursula Waser, 2018 (Photographer: Jos Schmid)

Maria Ursula (Uschi) Waser (born December 13, 1952 in Rüti ZH ), from Obervaz GR and Aarburg , is committed to the Yeniche and those affected by compulsory welfare measures.

Life

Maria Ursula Waser with Confirmation

Born out of wedlock, Ursula Waser was soon after her birth under the tutelage of Alfred Siegfried , the head of the Pro Juventute - "Aid Organization for the Children of the Landstrasse" ; after his retirement, the guardianship was passed on to the president of the poor authority of her home community Obervaz GR. As a Yeniche, Siegfried wanted to re-educate her to settle down as part of his aid organization, to alienate her from her mother and to contribute to the fight against "vagueness" as part of an overarching sociopolitical goal. The arguments between mother and guardian resulted in Ursula Waser being relocated 25 times up to the age of 14.

She was sexually abused by her stepfather when she was 13. In 1966 she dared to file a written complaint with the criminal chamber of the St. Gallen Cantonal Court , but because the accused stepfather was able to put her in a bad light, various homes gave her a negative testimony and testimony against testimony, he was acquitted. From the age of 14 to 18, Ursula Waser was housed in the “Good Shepherd” reform home in Altstätten SG .

She completed an apprenticeship as a dressmaker in the home and further training as an office worker and night watch in a retirement and nursing home. She has been working as a trained forest and play group leader since 1994. In 1989, Ursula Waser was one of the first to gain insight into her files of the Pro Juventute - "Aid for the Children of the Landstrasse". Since then she has been committed to coming to terms with the history of those affected by administrative coercive measures and external placements and for their rehabilitation, as well as illuminating the role of the judiciary in this context. As a representative of the victims of the relief organization, she took part in the “Round Table for the Processing of Compulsory Care Measures and External Placements Before 1981” (2013–2018), acts as a witness and makes her documentation available.
She has been president of the «Naschet Jenische» foundation since the 1990s. This foundation was originally set up to rehabilitate and care for the former children of the Landstrasse. Today she advises Yeniche on various issues and does public relations work.

Retouched per Juventute file

family

Ursula Waser married H. Waser in 1971, also from a Yenish family. She divorced him in 1976. She has two daughters, Jasmin, geb. 1972 and Desiree, b. 1982.

literature

  • Sara Galle: Inspection of files. From the life of a Yenish woman. Licentiate thesis University of Zurich 2003
  • Sara Galle, Thomas Meier: Of people and files. The Pro Juventute's “Children of the Road” campaign. Zurich 2009, pp. 194–205 (DVD with interview) ISBN 978-3-0340-0944-7 or (DVD) ISBN 978-3-0340-0964-5
  • Sara Galle: Child removal. The Pro Juventute Foundation's “Aid Organization for the Children of the Landstrasse” in the context of Swiss youth welfare. Zurich 2016. ISBN 978-3-0340-1327-7
  • Ursula Hochuli Freund: Focus on home education for girls. Investigation of gender-homogeneous and gender-mixed home education in the 19th and 20th centuries in German-speaking Switzerland. Bern 1997 ISBN 3-631-33655-1
  • Walter Leimgruber, Thomas Meier, Roger Sablonier: The aid organization for the children of the Landstrasse. Historical study based on the files of the Pro Juventute Foundation in the Swiss Federal Archives. Bern 1998 (Federal Archives Dossier 9) ISBN 3-908439-00-0

Web links

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ In the following, the marriage name is always used.
  2. ^ Sara Galle, Thomas Meier: From people and files. The Pro Juventute's “Children of the Road” campaign. Zurich 2009, p. 204f.
  3. ↑ to the home: Ursula Hochuli Freund, home education of girls in the field of vision. Investigation of gender-homogeneous and gender-mixed residential care in the 19th and 20th centuries in German-speaking Switzerland, Bern 1997
personal data
SURNAME Waser, Maria Ursula
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Waser, Uschi
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss activist
DATE OF BIRTH December 13, 1952
PLACE OF BIRTH Rüti ZH