Citizens' Association of Catholic Swiss Women
The Civic Association of Catholic Swiss Women (STAKA) (French name: Union civique des femmes catholiques ) was founded in 1947 as a party and church-independent organization by Catholics who no longer agreed with the conservative and church-loyal line of the Swiss Catholic Women's Federation (SKF) .
When the association was founded, a group around Marie-Mathilde Freuler-Bühler played an important role, who together with Alice Kälin, Ursula Kaiser, Elisabeth Müller-Bühler and Hedwig Lutz-Odermatt set up the Basel section of STAKA and this cantonal section with interruption from 1958 to 1967 and the Swiss General Association from 1961 to 1974. From 1952 to 1961, Louise C. Wenzinger (1901–1995) from Basel, editor of the Swiss Catholic Women's Association, was the president of the association and also of the European Women's Union.
The declared aim of the association was the civic education of women. These should be promoted in such a way that they could qualify for public office. For various reasons, however, STAKA did not take a direct position on the political debate about women's suffrage.
literature
- Sabine Schweizer: Catholic, but church-independent: The Citizens' Association of Catholic Swiss Women (Staka). Becoming and working of the Staka from its foundation in 1947 to the introduction of women's suffrage in 1971. Liz. University of Freiburg 1999.
- Marie-Mathilde Freuler-Bühler: 30 years of the Civic Association of Catholic Swiss Women. 1947-1977. 1977.
- Hedwig Lutz-Odermatt: Citizens' Association of Catholic Swiss Women. Family - economy - state. Connections that we should know. Basel 1963.
Web links
- STAKA archive, AGoF 107 in the Gosteli Foundation's finding aids , archive on the history of the Swiss women's movement
Individual evidence
- ^ Regula Ludi: Wenzinger, Louise C. In: Historisches Lexikon der Schweiz .