Socialist Abstinentenbund of Switzerland

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The Socialist Abstinentenbund der Schweiz (SAB) was founded in 1900 and dissolved in 2002.

history

One of the pioneers of the various teetotaler movements in Switzerland was the physiologist Gustav von Bunge , who postulated in his inaugural lecture in Basel in 1886 that " alcohol capital, with its mass production of spirits, enslaved and corrupted people". Louis-Lucien Rochat founded the Protestant Blue Cross in Geneva in 1877 . It was followed by the Catholics as well as the Good Templars and women's associations. In 1889, the doctor Auguste Forel set up the first drinking sanctuary in Ellikon an der Thur .

The abstinent supporters of the labor movement formed on May 14, 1900 in the Social Democratic Abstinentenbund at the national level. His organizational life depended heavily on individual members and leaders. The SAB had the largest number of members in 1914 with almost 1200 members. After the split in the Swiss workers' parties into communists (KPS) and social democrats (SP) , it was renamed the Socialist Abstinentenbund in 1921 in order to keep the communist members. From 1916 onwards the socialist abstinent was published , from 1980 the SAB-Information .

In 1910 the SAB took part in an attempt to establish a Socialist Abstinence International within the Socialist International , but before the First World War the delegations involved did not get beyond the establishment of an office in Brussels with the secretary Julius Hanauer . After the war, the Swiss set up an international office in Lausanne in 1921 , but this ended in an organizational fiasco. The SAB also took part in further attempts to found an international association, which was only halfway successful in Leipzig in 1928 with five delegations.

In 1908, the absinthe ban was passed in Switzerland . In 1910 the Volkshaus was founded by the SP, the trade unions and non-partisan women's organizations, the restaurant was run by the bourgeois “Zurich Women's Association for Alcohol-Free Businesses”, but the restaurant turned out to be increasingly unpopular with the workers. Social change also went hand in hand with the loss of significance of the abstinence movements, and in 1979 the self-imposed abstinence in the Volkshaus was lifted. In Zurich, the “Café Boy”, which opened in 1934, was also banned from alcohol in the 1980s, and the middle-class Hiltl restaurant, which was once founded as a “vegetarian home and abstinence café”, introduced a wine menu in 1993 .

After the number of members had decreased continuously, the Socialist Abstinentenbund dissolved in 2002.

Fonts (selection)

  • Auguste Forel : The drinking habits, their hygienic and social significance . Socialist Abstinentenbund in Switzerland, 1930.
  • Karl Geissbühler : The alcohol question and women: lecture . Ed .: Social Democratic Women's Groups in Switzerland, Socialist Abstinentenbund der Schweiz, 1935.
  • Eugen Blocher : Alcohol Question and Socialism . Socialist Abstinentenbund d. Switzerland, Bern 1956.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Michael Kuratli: Overcoming alcohol and capitalism ; P. 37
  2. ^ Franz Walter: The German Workers' Abstinents Association (DAAB) ; P. 204
  3. ^ Franz Walter: The German Workers' Abstinents Association (DAAB) ; P. 206
  4. ^ Franz Walter: The German Workers' Abstinents Association (DAAB) ; P. 208
  5. ^ Workers' Abstinentenbund. In: dasrotewien.at - Web dictionary of the Viennese social democracy. SPÖ Vienna (Ed.)