Sophie Glättli-Graf

Sophie Glättli-Graf (born July 30, 1876 in Aarau ; died November 20, 1951 in Zurich , resident in Zurich) was a Swiss women's rights activist and social activist.

Life

Sophie Graf was the daughter of the Aarau innkeeper Otto Bruno Graf and his wife Sophie, née Martin. Due to an illness of her father, she broke off her training as a teacher and in 1895 married the lawyer Franz Glättli. In the same year she began her commitment to the women's movement.

She became a member of the “Union for Women's Desires” founded in 1896 and was its director from 1914 to 1919. From 1911 Glättli was on the voting rights commission and the law study commission in the Federation of Swiss Women's Associations BSF, in the latter she was president from 1916 to 1934. From 1916 to 1930 she was a member of the BSF board, from 1930 she remained an honorary member of the BSF board for life. She represented the BSF for a long time in the International Women's Council .

During the First World War , she and like-minded people set up a women's welfare service, from which the Zurich women's center developed, and she became its first president in 1916. From 1917 to 1949 she was president of the Zurich section of the non-profit women's association . In this role she directed the local household school, created day nurseries, an old people's home and a home for women.

Glättli played a key role in founding the Central Office for Women’s Professions in 1923, as well as in organizing the Swiss Exhibition for Women’s Work in 1928. In 1935 she was a founding member of the independent women’s group in Zurich. As a pioneer of the women's suffrage movement, Glättli was honored in 1943 by the Zurich city president Ernst Nobs .

literature

• Regula Ludi: Glättli [-Graf], Sophie. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .