Marie Goegg-Pouchoulin

Marie Goegg - Pouchoulin ( born May 24, 1826 in Geneva, † March 24, 1899 ibid ) made ​​a name as the first women's rights activist Switzerland and was one of the most important fighters for women's suffrage. You stood up for the civil and political equality of women in Switzerland.

On July 24, 1868 founded the first international women's organization, the Association internationale des femmes.

Like many of her contemporaries, Marie Goegg came over her husband, Amand Goegg, to politics. In the magazine Les Etats- Unis d'Europe, she wrote her first article, a call to the merger of the women, with the aim to work for their political rights. Few women came forward, the club was founded, however anyway. Marie Goegg was very well read and was inspired especially in the English suffragettes. At its founding speech she made ​​clear demands, such as women's suffrage. It is time that women also citizens are like their brothers the citizens, " because it women is time for us to no longer form a particular social class ."

Due to internal quarrels, the Association internationale des Femmes but was soon dissolved and ( Solidarité called ) re-established under the name Association pour la défense of the droit de la Femme 1872. Another popular campaigner for women's suffrage, Julie of May, joined the band.

Thanks to a petition initiated by Goegg - Pouchoulin women were admitted to the University of Geneva from 1872. In 1875 she was elected President of the Solidarité. Once this was in 1880 dissolved and adjusted the magazine, it was quiet around Goegg - Pouchoulin. In 1886, it was abolitionniste international elected to the board of the Federation. In 1891 she chose the Geneva's vice president of the newly formed Union des femmes de Genève.

Marie Goegg - Pouchoulin was a pioneer of the egalitarian feminism in Switzerland. In her time she was a symbol of the progressive women's movement in the Romandie and influenced the founding of the " International Women " the women's movement in Europe.