Mathilde Lejeune-Jehle

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Mathilde Lejeune-Jehle (born February 12, 1885 in Rheinfelden , † January 29, 1967 in Zumikon ) was a Swiss teacher , pacifist and education politician . During the Second World War, she campaigned for a more humane refugee policy in Switzerland.

Life

After attending the Aarau Teachers' Seminar, the forerunner organization of today's New Cantonal School Aarau , the young Mathilde Jehle first worked as a teacher in Staffelbach , then in her native Rheinfelden and finally in Baden . Since 1908 she sat on the board of the Aargau teachers' association. In 1910 she won a teaching material competition. In 1915 she worked for eleven months as a volunteer Red Cross nurse in an Austro-Hungarian war hospital . Shortly before leaving, she had married the physician Erwin Lejeune, the brother of the theologian Robert Lejeune . In 1916 the couple moved to Kölliken , where Erwin Lejeune opened a general practice and where their two daughters Hanna and Elisabeth were born in 1918 and 1921.

Since the 1920s, the pacifist has been involved in the International Women's League for Peace and Freedom (IFFF) , which fought for global disarmament. Under the leadership of the initiative Clara Ragaz-Nadig, the Swiss section developed a remarkable activity: organization of a traveling exhibition, information events about the danger of gas war, a campaign against the sale of war toys . The IFFF experienced its peak in 1931/32. At that time, an international petition for disarmament for the attention of the League of Nations was signed by around 300,000 people in Switzerland . In view of the Europe-wide developments in the 1930s, the pacifist engagement of the IFFF stalled. Questions of refugee policy increasingly came to the fore. In this context, Mathilde Lejeune-Jehle wrote the information brochure Menschen auf der Flucht (1940) and the dialect theater piece Gsetz und Gwüsse , which deals with the desperation of a Jewish refugee who was rejected by the Swiss authorities. The piece was performed on November 22nd, 1941 in the "Rössli" in Kölliken.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Letters that she wrote to her husband during this time can be found in the Gosteli archive in Worblaufen near Bern. See the presentation in a radio broadcast by Sabine Bitter on February 21, 2014: http://www.srf.ch/sendung/passage/mathilde-lejeune-schweizer-pflegerin-im-fremden-kriegsdienst

Works

  • Aargau Primer. First reader for community schools. Authored by M. Jehle, teacher, on behalf of the Aargau canton of education council with the assistance of the cantonal textbook commission. Pictures from Eug. Steimer. Aarau 1911/1922.
  • Reader for the community schools in the canton of Aargau: second school year. Second edition. Kantonaler Lehrmittelverlag, Aarau 1920.
  • From the expansion of the teachers 'seminar to a girls' vocational school. In: Lectures given at the cantonal teachers' conference of the Canton of Aargau in Baden on September 16, 1929. 1929.
  • Rapport sur la manifestation internationale en faveur du désarmement de la Ligue internationale pour la Paix et la Liberté, Section suisse. Zurich 1932.
  • Catechism of Peace. Published by the Swiss branch of the International Women's League for Peace and Freedom. Pacifist bookstore, Zurich ≈1935.
  • People on the run: a contribution to the question of emigrants: on behalf of the Swiss branch of the International Women's League for Peace and Freedom. Cooperative printing company, Zurich ≈1940.
  • Laws and Gwusses: a piece of us euserer quote in four acts. 1941.
  • Pestalozzi-Chinder: En Baustei for s'Pestalozzi-Dorf. A piece for children and adults in 3 acts. Edited by the Swiss. Teachers' association. Bern 1946.
  • Marie Heim-Vögtlin, 1845–1916. In: Argovia. Volume 65, Sauerländer, Aarau 1953.
  • D'Magd: dialect play in 4 acts. Sauerländer, Aarau 1956.

literature

  • In memory of Mathilde Lejeune-Jehle 1885–1967. 1967.
  • Susanne Businger: Silent help and active cooperation. Swiss women and the support of Jewish refugees, 1938-1947, Zurich 2015.
  • Beat Hodler: Refugee debate in the theater: «Gsetz und Gwüsse» by Mathilde Lejeune-Jehle (1941) . In: Argovia, annual journal of the Historical Society of the Canton of Aargau. Volume 117 (2005), pp. 75-91.
  • Ders .: Criticism of the Swiss refugee policy in dialect theater - a case study. In: Béatrice Ziegler u. a. (Ed.): Switzerland and the Shoah. From controversies to new questions, Zurich 2012, pp. 103–128.
  • Sara Valentina Rohr: Matilde Lejeune-Jehle (1885-1967), the war years 1914/1915 as reflected in her correspondence. In: Annual publication of the Suhrental Association for Local History. (2014), pp. 12–24.

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personal data
SURNAME Lejeune-Jehle, Mathilde
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss teacher, pacifist and education politician
DATE OF BIRTH February 12, 1885
PLACE OF BIRTH Rheinfelden , ( Switzerland )
DATE OF DEATH January 29, 1967
Place of death Zumikon