Tilo Frey

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Tilo Frey (born May 2, 1923 in Maroua , Cameroon ; † June 27, 2008 in Neuchâtel ) was a Swiss politician ( FDP ).

Life

Frey was born in Cameroon as the daughter of a Swiss engineer from the ETH Zurich and a Fulbe and lived in Switzerland since the 1920s.

From 1938 to 1941 she completed the teachers' seminar in Neuchâtel and from 1943 to 1971 was a teacher at the École de Commerce for commercial subjects. From 1972 to 1976 she was director of the École professionnelle de jeunes filles . Most recently, she worked as a teacher at the École professional commerciale from 1976 to 1984 .

Frey took over her first political office in 1964 when she was a member of the Conseil général ( legislature ) of the city of Neuchâtel. Five years later she was the first woman to be elected to the Grand Council of the Canton of Neuchâtel . There she campaigned for equal pay for both sexes, for the decriminalization of abortion and for increased cooperation with developing countries. Nine months after the introduction of women's suffrage , Frey was elected to the National Council in 1971 as the first dark-skinned person and was also one of the first ten women on the National Council. From 1972 to 1974 she was a delegate of the Interparliamentary Union . In 1973 she left the Grand Council of Neuchâtel and in 1974 from the General Council, and a year later in 1975 from the National Council.

In 2019, the central square in front of the University of Neuchâtel was renamed from Espace Louis-Agassiz , named after the naturalist and racial theorist Louis Agassiz , to Espace Tilo-Frey .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Recently Deceased Councilors. parlament.ch, accessed on October 7, 2009 .
  2. ^ A b Tilo Frey - the black Swiss political pioneer. Schweizer Radio und Fernsehen srf, September 24, 2019, accessed on September 28, 2019 .
  3. ↑ Une pionnières'en est allée. In: L'Express of June 28, 2008 (PDF file, p. 4, archive version ( Memento of December 16, 2011 on WebCite ))
  4. ↑ Tilo Frey est le 27 juin décédée à 85 ans, ont annoncé vendredi les services du Parlement. (No longer available online.) Lematin.ch , archived from the original on July 7, 2012 ; Retrieved November 11, 2010 (French). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / archives.lematin.ch
personal data
SURNAME Frey, Tilo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss politician (FDP)
DATE OF BIRTH May 2, 1923
PLACE OF BIRTH Maroua , Cameroon
DATE OF DEATH June 27, 2008
Place of death Neuchâtel , Switzerland