Martha Lüthy-Zobrist

Martha Lüthy-Zobrist (born August 16, 1876 in Winterthur , † April 14, 1943 in Bern ) was a Swiss women's rights activist and the central president of the Swiss Women's Trade Association.

Martha Lüthy-Zobrist was born as the daughter of the shoemaker Heinrich Zobrist and his wife Elisabeth Widmer. She grew up with strict foster parents and trained as a dressmaker. At the age of 23, in 1899, she married the postman Jakob Lüthy. After her husband passed away early on, she ran her own dressmaking studio. In 1918 she founded the Winterthur women's tailors' association.

Martha Lüthy-Zobrist was a co-founder of the Swiss Women's Trade Association in 1920 , of which she was central president from 1923 to 1943. In 1924 she was the first woman to be elected to the board of the Swiss Trade Association. In 1928 she organized the Swiss Exhibition for Women’s Labor in Bern on behalf of the Patronage Committee, chaired by Federal Councilors Giuseppe Motta and Edmund Schulthess . In addition, in 1929 she took over the full-time management of the office of the women's trade association. In her function, she was instrumental in creating the master craftsman's examination, professional training and the regulation of apprenticeships in the women's trade. Among other things, she worked in 1930 in the extra-parliamentary study commission for the federal law on vocational training.

She was made an honorary member in 1938 by the Swiss Trade Association.

Web links

• Regula Ludi: Lüthy [-Zobrist], Martha. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . October 16, 2007 , accessed February 23, 2019 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ SF: Autour de la "SAFFA": (exposition suisse du travail féminin). In: Le mouvement féministe: organe officiel des publications de l'Alliance nationale des sociétés féminines suisses. 1926, accessed on February 23, 2019 (Volume 14).  
2. ↑ SF: Of course the teachers again! In: Swiss teacher newspaper. 1943, accessed on February 23, 2019 (Volume 47).