Hanny Thalmann

Hanny Johanna Hermina Thalmann (26 July 1916 in Gossau, canton of St. Gallen – 11 May 2000 in St. Gallen) was a Swiss women's rights activist and politician of the Christian Democratic People's Party. She was among the first ten women to seat in the National Council after women's suffrage was introduced in 1971.

Life and career Thalmann's father, a Realschule teacher, died at an early age in 1920. She was the first female who earned an Economics and Finance PhD from that Academy. and a member of the cantonal board of the Catholic Women League in St. Gallen and Appenzell from 1954 to 1988. Thalmann notably caimpagned for women's suffrage. She was the first female member of the educational board of the canton of St. Gallen from 1968 to 1983, and from 1971 to 1979 the first female National Councillor from the canton of St. Gallen. She was among the first ten women to seat in the National Council after women's suffrage was introduced in federal elections in 1971. In 1967, she was a recipient of the Appreciation Award (Annerkennungspreis) of the City of St. Gallen.

Thalmann was involved in social and vocational education issues, and promoted vocational training of women in her canton, as well as maternity rights and maternity insurance in the National Council.

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