Ruth Grossenbacher

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Ruth Grossenbacher-Schmid (1992)

Ruth Grossenbacher-Schmid (born September 13, 1936 in Cape Town ; resident in Obererlinsbach ) is a Swiss politician ( CVP ).

Life

Ruth Grossenbacher, née Schmid, was born in Cape Town in 1936 as the youngest of three daughters of a Swiss couple. Her father emigrated to South Africa in 1921 and helped set up a factory for the shoe manufacturer Bally . In 1946 the family moved back to Switzerland, from then on the father worked in Schönenwerd at the Bally headquarters. After compulsory schooling and her marriage, Ruth Grossenbacher worked for twenty years as an English teacher at a vocational school.

Ruth Grossenbacher-Schmid is married and has two daughters. The older daughter was born with a serious heart defect and died during an operation at the age of six.

politics

In 1973 Ruth Grossenbacher was elected to the local council in Niedererlinsbach , two years after the introduction of women's suffrage. She later became a member of the Solothurn Constitutional Council. From 1986 to 1991 Ruth Grossenbacher was the second president of CVP Women Switzerland . At their request, at the end of 1991 the CVP Switzerland was the first bourgeois party to introduce a minimum representation of both genders of one third for its party bodies. In the same year Grossenbacher made the leap to the National Council . It made a name for itself especially in educational, social and cultural policy. In 1994 she worked as an election observer for the United Nations in her country of birth . From 1994 to 2001 she was also President of Pro Familia Switzerland . Her long-standing political and social commitment has always been shaped by her commitment to the concerns of women, minorities and the socially disadvantaged.

Even after she left the National Council in 1999, Ruth Grossenbacher continued to hold numerous positions. Among other things, she was President of the Solothurner Filmtage Society and the Presence Switzerland Commission of the Federal Department of Foreign Affairs .

Awards

  • 2019: Recognition award from the Canton of Solothurn

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Former National Councilor Ruth Grossenbacher: "The blacks were - just there" , Solothurner Zeitung , December 16, 2013
  2. ↑ a b c Ruth Grossenbacher - Die Kosmopolitin , Nathalie Zeindler, In: Menschen und Horizonte, SRF, November 13, 2016
  3. ^ History of the CVP women
  4. ^ History of Pro Familia Switzerland on the organisation's official website
  5. ^ Big gig in New York , swissinfo, February 28, 2002
personal data
SURNAME Grossenbacher, Ruth
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Grossenbacher-Schmid, Ruth
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss politician (CVP)
DATE OF BIRTH September 13, 1936
PLACE OF BIRTH Cape Town