Trudy Späth-Schweizer

Gertrud "Trudy" Späth-Schweizer (6 December 1908 – 19 October 1990) was the first woman to hold a political office in Switzerland. She was elected to the Bürgerrat, the executive council of the Bürgergemeinde, of Riehen in 1958.

Biography Gertrud Späth was born as a farmer's and innkeeper's daughter in Riehen. She attended the Frauenarbeitsschule ("Women's Work School") in Basel and was then employed for five years as head of the box office of the City Theater of Basel. After marrying Ernst Schweizer, a master carpenter, in 1932, she remained a housekeeper and assisted her husband in his workshop.