About Marie Adam-Doerrer
Lived 1838 – 1908 (aged 69–70). Marie Adam-Doerrer was a Swiss women's rights activist.
Marie Adam-Doerrer (23 March 1838 – 29 July 1908) was a Swiss women's rights activist and unionist.
Born in Germany as Marie Doerrer, she trained as a goldsmith and worked in Bern as a washerwoman, marrying the shoemaker Karl Adam. She joined the Social Democratic Party of Switzerland after losing her savings in a bank crash. In 1887, she co-founded the Bernese Women Workers' Association (Arbeiterinnenverein), and in 1902, the Bernese Women Day Laborers' Association (Tagelöhnerinnenverein), which she presided over.
Adam-Doerrer was a co-founder and member of numerous other Swiss women's organizations, and advocated in favor of cooperation between socialist and conservative women's organizations at the 1904 international women's congress.
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Who was Marie Adam-Doerrer?
Swiss women's rights activist and unionist
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Marie Adam-Doerrer was born in 1838 in Mulhouse.
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Marie Adam-Doerrer died in 1908 in Bern.
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Marie Adam-Doerrer was a women's rights activist.
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Marie Adam-Doerrer was Swiss.
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