Marie-Mathilde Freuler-Bühler

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Marie-Mathilde Freuler-Bühler (born November 28, 1911 in Lucerne ; † August 4, 2016 in Basel ) was a Swiss editor and feminist .

Marie-Mathilde Bühler was the daughter of the Glarus lawyer Franz Bühler and Elisabeth born. of moss. She attended the St-Croix girls' high school in Freiburg and studied humanities and law at the University of Basel and the University of Freiburg . In 1938 she married the Basel dentist Franz Freuler († 1981). The couple had four children.

From 1947 she worked as a journalist and in adult education. In the same year she participated in the founding of the national association of Catholic Swiss women STAKA. Together with Alice Kälin, Ursula Kaiser, Elisabeth Müller-Bühler and Hedwig Lutz-Odermatt, she founded the Basel section of STAKA and presided over this cantonal section with interruption from 1958 to 1967 and the entire Swiss association from 1961 to 1974.

Marie-Mathilde Freuler-Bühler appeared in public as an organizer of campaigns for women's suffrage. From 1961 to 1963 she was Secretary General of the European Women's Union EFU. In 1962 she took part in the founding of the Swiss national section SEFU and presided over this branch from 1975 to 1987. In 1990 she founded the working group for church women's issues in Basel.

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SURNAME Freuler-Bühler, Marie-Mathilde
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss editor and feminist
DATE OF BIRTH November 28, 1911
PLACE OF BIRTH Lucerne
DATE OF DEATH 4th August 2016
Place of death Basel