Gertrud Spiess
Gertrud Spiess (16 April 1914 in Basel – 14 July 1995 in Basel) was a Swiss politician of the Christian Democratic People's Party. She was a member of the National Council from 1975 to 1983.
Life[edit]
Spiess was born in Basel to a mechanic.[1] She studied philology, German and history in Basel and Kiel. Then she made Islamic studies in Basel and Cairo, Egypt[1] and earned a doctor's degree in 1946 with her thesis Maḥmūd von Ġazna bei Farīdu’d-dīn ʿAṭṭār which was first published in print in 1959. Spiess was a high school teacher of Latin and Ancient Greek.
Her life was shaped by her political commitment. She sat in the Citizens' Council of Basel, campaigned for women's suffrage in Switzerland, and joined the Grand Council of Basel in 1968. She became the first female Statthalter of the city of Basel in 1974,[2] and the first female speaker of the Grand Council of the canton of Basel-Stadt.[3] Moreover, she was a member of the National Council from 1975 to 1983.[4] Her fields of interest included social and education policy.[1]
Spiess was single.[1]
See also[edit]
References[edit]
- ^ a b c d Historical Dictionary of Switzerland
- ^ "Chronik 1974 des Basler Stadtbuchs". Basler Stadtbuch (in German). Archived from the original on July 31, 2012.
- ^ "Frauen in die Politik" (in German). Christian Democratic People's Party of Basel-Stadt. Archived from the original on August 5, 2013. auf der Website der CVP Basel-Stadt
- ^ "Chronik 1995 des Basler Stadtbuchs". Basler Stadtbuch (in German). Archived from the original on July 28, 2012.
External links[edit]
- Antonia Schmidlin: Gertrud Spiess in German, French and Italian in the online Historical Dictionary of Switzerland, February, 2012.
- Biography of Gertrud Spiess on the website of the Swiss Parliament.
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