Gabrielle Radziwill

Princess Gabrielle Jeanne Anne Marie Radziwill (14 March 1878 – 9 January 1968) was a Lithuanian nurse, pacifist and women's rights activist. She was one of the first women to join the League of Nations, where she was active from 1920 to 1934.

Biography

Radziwill was born in Berlin as the daughter of the Polish aristocrats Wilhelm Radziwiłł and his wife, Catherine, née Rzewuska. Her grandfathers were Russian general Adam Rzewuski and Prussian general . In connection with relationships between the League and women's societies, she stressed: "I shall always be ready to do what I can to help and further the aims of the women's organizations — even when I do not see eye to eye with them!"

In the League of Nations, she was initially employed as a Senior Assistant in the Information Section but was promoted to Member of the Section in 1927. In 1931, she was transferred to the Social Questions and Opium Traffic Section and, in 1934, to the Intellectual Cooperation and International Bureaux Section, where she worked until she left in December 1938.