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The Liberal Socialist Party is a former Swiss political party founded in 1946 as a split from the Swiss free-market movement and later merged into the International Association for Natural Economic Order in 1990. [1]
The history of the Liberal Socialist Party is rooted in the Swiss free-market movement, which began in the 1910s. In 1914, Silvio Gesell, the founder of free-market economics, gave a public lecture in Bern at the invitation of Ernst Schneider [2] , a Damascus scholar, reform pedagogue and seminary director. On July 4, 1915, the association Freiland und Freigeld - Schweizerischer Bund zur Schaffung des Rechtes auf den vollen Arbeitsertrag durch Bodenbesitz- und Geldreform (Free Land and Free Money - Swiss Federation for the Creation of the Right to the Full Yield of Labour through Land Ownership and Monetary Reform) was formed, which was later renamed the Schweizerischer Freiwirtschaftsbund (SFB) in the spring of 1924. The leading figures of the association were the doctor and physicist Theophil Christen and the life reformer and writer Werner Zimmermann. [3] From 1917, the association published its own journal under the editorial direction of Fritz Schwarz, the titles of which were initially Die Freistatt - Zeitschrift für Kultur und Schulpolitik (until 1921), then Der Freigeldler (until 1922) and Das Freigeld: Zeitschrift des Schweizer Freiland-Freigeld-Bundes and finally, from 1923 to 1940, Die Freiwirtschaftliche Zeitung. In the 1939 Swiss parliamentary elections, the FWB succeeded in winning a seat in the National Council in Basel-Landschaft with Hans Konrad Sonderegger, and also held one to three seats in the cantonal parliaments of some German-speaking Swiss cantons.
Johann Silvio Gesell was a German-Argentine economist, merchant, and the founder of Freiwirtschaft, an economic model for market socialism. In 1900 he founded the magazine Geld-und Bodenreform, but it soon closed for financial reasons. During one of his stays in Argentina, where he lived in a vegetarian commune, Gesell started the magazine Der Physiokrat together with Georg Blumenthal. In 1914, it closed due to censorship.
Freiwirtschaft is an economic idea founded by Silvio Gesell in 1916. He called it Natürliche Wirtschaftsordnung. In 1932, a group of Swiss businessmen used his ideas to found the WIR Bank (WIR).
The Social Democratic Party of Switzerland, also called the Swiss Socialist Party, is a political party in Switzerland. The SP has had two representatives on the Federal Council since 1960 and received the second-highest number of votes in the 2023 Swiss federal election.
The Natural Economic Order is considered Silvio Gesell's most important book. It is a work on monetary reform and land reform. It attempts to provide a solid basis for economic liberalism in contrast to the 20th-century trend of collectivism and planned economy.
The Appenzeller Sennenhund is a Swiss breed of medium-sized working dog. It originates in the Appenzell region of north-eastern Switzerland, and is one of four regional breeds of Sennenhund or Swiss mountain dog, all of which are characterised by a distinctive tricolour coat.
The Reformed branch of Protestantism in Switzerland was started in Zürich by Huldrych Zwingli and spread within a few years to Basel, Bern, St. Gallen,(Joachim Vadian), to cities in southern Germany and via Alsace to France.
The Protestant Church in Switzerland (PCS), formerly named Federation of Swiss Protestant Churches until 31 December 2019, is a federation of 25 member churches – 24 cantonal churches and the Evangelical-Methodist Church of Switzerland. The PCS is not a church in a theological understanding, because every member is independent with its own theological and formal organisation. It serves as a legal umbrella before the federal government and represents the church in international relations. Except for the Evangelical-Methodist Church, which covers all of Switzerland, the member churches are restricted to a certain territory.
The Berne Trial or Bern Trial was a famous court case in Bern, Switzerland which took place between 1933 and 1935. Two organisations, the Swiss Federation of Jewish Communities and the Bernese Jewish Community sued the far-right Swiss National Front for distributing anti-Jewish propaganda. The trial focussed on the Front's use of the fraudulent antisemitic text, The Protocols of the Elders of Zion. Ultimately decided in favour of the plaintiffs, the Front was ordered to pay a symbolic fine and court costs. However, the trial became significant both for the international coverage and also for the extensive evidence presented, demonstrating the falsehoods contained in The Protocols.
Hugo Loetscher was a Swiss writer and essayist.
The Swiss Shooting Sport Federation, German: Schweizer Schiesssportverband (SSSV), is an association for sport shooting in Switzerland. It was founded in its current form in 2001, but has roots as far back as in 1824. It is associated with the International Shooting Sport Federation and the European Shooting Confederation.
The historiography of Switzerland is the study of the history of Switzerland.
The Schweizerische Ausstellung für Frauenarbeit was an exhibition that took place in Bern in 1928 and in Zürich in 1958. SAFFA was organized by the Bund Schweizerischer Frauenvereine, the Swiss Catholic Women's League (SKF), and 28 other Swiss women's associations, to highlight the precarious situation of working women in the postwar years.
Marthe Gosteli was a Swiss suffrage activist and archivist. For thirty years, she led the fight for women's right to vote in Switzerland and then focused her attention on preserving the history of Swiss women. Creating an archive of women's biographies and history, Gosteli's work was recognized by many honours and awards, including the 2011 Swiss Human Rights Award.
The Freethinkers Association of Switzerland (FAS) is a Swiss nonprofit organisation for freethought. It is the result of the merger of several late 19th century and early 20th century local freethinkers associations throughout Switzerland into a national society, currently headquartered in Bern.
Annie Leuch-Reineck was a Swiss mathematician and women's rights activist. She was one of the most influential participants in the Swiss women's movement during the 1920s and 1930s.
The Swiss Typographers' Union was a trade union representing printers, based in Switzerland.
Élisabeth Baume-Schneider is a Swiss politician of the Social Democratic Party of Switzerland (SP) and a current member of the Federal Council. She was elected on 7 December 2022, the first ever elected member from the Canton of Jura.
Urs Dietschi was a Swiss lawyer who entered government service. He then became increasingly caught up in politics and in 1929 became a co-founder of an organisation called the "Jungliberale Bewegung". At the urging of like-minded liberal-radical activists, he secured election to the Solothurn cantonal parliament in 1933, remaining a member till 1937. In 1943 he secured election to the "Nationalrat", representing the Free Democratic Party on behalf of his canton. Meanwhile, he remained a leading figure in cantonal governance, serving as a member of the Solothurn cantonal executive between 1937 and 1966. At both National and cantonal levels he took a consistent interest in social policy and cultural affairs, and was also prominent as an advocate of enhanced social, economic and political rights for women, at a time when Switzerland was, by European standards, widely seen as something of a laggard in such matters.
Heinrich Albert Nidecker, also known as Henri Nidecker, was a Swiss librarian and philologist. Born in Alsace, he completed degrees at the University of Basel, earning a doctorate English philology in 1924. Nidecker spent most of his career as a librarian at the Basel University Library, where he developed a cataloguing system, and was responsible for the departments of English philology and philosophy. Nidecker was involved in the international auxiliary language movement, supporting Ido and later Interlingue; he authored several works in the latter. Nidecker also wrote on topics of social reform, and on the history of music in Switzerland.
The Swiss Farmers' Union (SFU; until 2013 Schweizerischer Bauernverband; French: Union Suisse des Paysans , Italian: Unione Svizzera dei Contadini , Romansh: Uniun Purila Svizra represents the interests of the farming community in Switzerland as an umbrella organization and is considered one of the most influential organizations in the country.
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