Gertrud Haldimann

Gertrud Haldimann ( born January 22, 1907 in Bern, † December 25, 2001 ibid ) was an activist against female suffrage in Switzerland.

Life

Gertrud Haldimann, the daughter of a master plumber, earned a degree in pharmacy at the University of Bern and graduated in 1930 with the state exam. In 1933 she married the ophthalmologist Carl Haldimann ( 1900-1983 ). The couple had six children.

1958 Gertrude Haldimann was co-founder of the Women's Committee against the introduction of women's suffrage in Switzerland. After the rejection in the first referendum on the federal woman suffrage on 1 February 1959, the committee was converted to woman suffrage in the covenant of Swiss citizens. From 1959 to 1971 Haldimann presided over this union.

After 1971, the women's suffrage was adopted at the federal level in Switzerland, was Haldimann co-founder, board member and from 1982 Vice-President of rightwing Association for Family and Social Policy ( Arfag ).

Your private archive is located since 1998 in the archives of Gosteli Foundation in Worblaufen near Bern.