Ruth Keizer

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Ruth Keizer

Rut Keizer (actually Ruth Clara Keizer ; born November 18, 1897 in Basel ; † February 21, 1968 there ) was a Swiss historian , teacher and women's rights activist .

Life

Gymnasium Leonhard, Ruth Keizer (1897–1968) 1959 co-organizer of the Basel teachers 'strike, 1928–58 teacher at the Basel girls' high school
Reminder of the teachers' strike at the Leonhard grammar school led by Rut Keizer

Rut Keizer was born in Basel in 1897, where she went to school until 1913. At the instigation of her parents, she had to leave school to complete a household apprenticeship in the Bern area . Thanks to the support of her godmother, she was able to resume school six months later; After an interim phase in the trade school, she attended the pedagogical department of the daughter's school. In the spring of 1919 she successfully completed this training period with the primary school exam. The following summer she began to study history as well as German and French philology at the University of Basel . It was not until she passed the cantonal high school diploma in 1920 that she was able to matriculate as a regular student. In the winter semester of 1920/21 she studied at the Sorbonne in Paris, and in 1922/23 at the Humboldt University in Berlin. On July 11, 1924, she finished her studies with a doctorate in general history, Swiss history and German philology. In 1925 her dissertation on Guizot as a historian was published.

In 1928 she began her career as a teacher at the girls' school; As a law specialist was also required, Rut Keizer attended the necessary lectures and courses at the law faculty in addition to her teaching activities. With the general mobilization in 1939 the rector and vice rector were drafted, Rut Keizer was entrusted with the management of the rectorate until the end of the war. In 1947 she was appointed deputy principal as one of the first women in Basel.

When she joined the Association for Women's Suffrage in Basel and the surrounding area and the Basel Women's Center , she began her commitment to equal rights for women as a citizen. When the majority of Swiss voters again rejected this political equality for women in February 1959, Rut Keizer - still working in the classroom a year after her retirement - successfully called the teachers of the daughter's school to go on strike, the Basel teachers' strike. In the following years, Rut Keizer took part in further advances as a pioneer of the equal rights movement; She still experienced the legal anchoring of political equality in the canton of Basel-Stadt; national equality for women only took place after her death in traffic in 1971.

Services

Rut Keizer was one of the main initiators of the Basel teachers ' strike in February 1959. The New York Times reported that after the massive rejection of the required women's suffrage in Switzerland, the teachers at the Basel girls' high school went on strike as a unity. They wanted to expressly protest against the renewed disregard for the legal right of Swiss women to be a citizen. Other press voices commented on the process along the current party lines: As vehemently as the bourgeois papers condemned the strike, the left newspapers praised the civil courage of the participants. The members of the city's (exclusively male) cantonal parliament showed no understanding of the way in which the educated women in the humanist city of Basel had emphasized their concerns; the only exception was the husband of one of the striking women, who stood behind the political action.

Works

  • Guizot as a historian. Saint-Louis 1925 (dissertation).
  • 2nd International Conference on History Education (Basel, June 9-11, 1934). Presses Universitaires de France, Paris 1935.
  • On the position of women in the past. Basel 1955 (address at the closing ceremony of the MG 1955).
  • From the diary of Thomas Platter the Younger. In: Basler Zeitschrift für Geschichte und Altertumskunde . 63: 75-111 (1963) ( online ).
  • Academic oekumene around 1600 in the Spiegel the travel diary of the younger Thomas Platter from Basel 1595–1600. In: Schaffhausen contributions to patriotic history. Issue 45 (1968), pp. 291-315.
  • (Ed.) Thomas Platter : Description of the trips through France, Spain, England and the Netherlands 1595–1600. 2 parts. Schwabe, Basel 1968.

literature

  • Ursa Krattiger (Ed.): «Rioting teachers». The Basel teachers' strike of February 3, 1959. 2nd edition. Schwabe, Basel 2011.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Elfi Belleville Wiss:The teachers' strike of February 3, 1959: women's rights and school in Basel-Stadt.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / bsb.edubs.ch ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.   .
  2. ↑ Website for the book at the publisher, accessed on June 28, 2019.
personal data
SURNAME Keizer, Ruth
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Keizer, Ruth Clara (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss historian, teacher and women's rights activist
DATE OF BIRTH November 18, 1897
PLACE OF BIRTH Basel
DATE OF DEATH February 21, 1968
Place of death Basel