Klara Honegger
{{Short description|Swiss suffragist and pacifist activist (1860–1940)}}
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| image = Klara Honegger (1909).jpg
| birth_date = 29 May 1860
| birth_place = Zurich, Switzerland
| death_date = 11 April 1940
| death_place = Zurich, Switzerland
| occupation = suffragist and pacifist activist
| organization = Union for Women's Efforts Zurich, Swiss Association for Women's Suffrage, Swiss Central Office for Peace Work, Women's Alliance for the Promotion of International Harmony
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Klara Honegger (29 May 1860 – 11 April 1940) was a Swiss suffragist and pacifist activist.
Early life
Activism
In 1896, Honegger was a co-founder of the Union für Frauenbestrebungen Zürich (Union for Women's Efforts Zurich),{{Cite web |date=2021-06-29 |title=Deshalb motivieren die Pionierinnen bis heute |url=https://frauensicht.ch/politik/weiteres1/deshalb-motivieren-die-pionierinnen-bis-heute/ |access-date=2025-03-10 |website=FrauenSicht |language=de-CH}} and served as president from 1903 to 1911.{{Cite web |title=Honegger, Klara |url=https://hls-dhs-dss.ch/de/articles/009333/2008-01-15/ |access-date=2025-03-08 |website=Historischen Lexikons der Schweiz (HLS) |language=de}}
As a campaigner for women's suffrage, Honegger gave speeches in urban and rural areas of Switzerland.{{Cite book |last=Banaszak |first=Lee Ann |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=jA52Fdb_V5sC&dq=Klara+Honegger&pg=PA49 |title=Why Movements Succeed or Fail: Opportunity, Culture, and the Struggle for Woman Suffrage |date=1996-08-05 |publisher=Princeton University Press |isbn=978-1-4008-2207-2 |pages=49 |language=en}} In 1909, Honegger was a founding member of the Schweizerischen Verbandes für Frauenstimmrecht (Swiss Association for Women's Suffrage). That year she was also a delegate to the International Woman Suffrage Alliance in London,{{Cite book |last1=Terras |first1=Melissa |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=50pvEAAAQBAJ&dq=Klara+Honegger&pg=PA284 |title=Millicent Garrett Fawcett: Selected writings |last2=Crawford |first2=Elizabeth |date=2022-06-09 |publisher=UCL Press |isbn=978-1-78735-863-8 |pages=284 |language=en}} with Carrie Chapman Catt presiding."[http://oasis.lib.harvard.edu/oasis/deliver/~sch01026 International Woman Suffrage Alliance. Constitution in the Woman's Rights Collection, 1909]". Harvard University. Retrieved 8 March 2025.
Honegger joined the peace movement in 1915. She was the leader of the Swiss Central Office for Peace Work and a member of Women's Alliance for the Promotion of International Harmony. From 1933, she worked in the Women and Democracy Working Group.
Death
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