Tilo Frey

Tilo Frey
Member of the National Council of Switzerland
In office
29 November 1971 – 30 November 1975
Personal details
Born
Tilo Frey

(1923-05-02)2 May 1923
Maroua, Cameroon
Died27 June 2008(2008-06-27) (aged 85)
Neuchâtel, Switzerland
Political partyFree Democratic Party of Switzerland

Tilo Frey (2 May 1923 – 27 June 2008) [1][2]) was a Swiss politician. She was one of the first twelve women elected to the National Council in 1971 and was the first person of African descent elected to the National Council.[3] Prior to her service at the federal level, she was a member of the municipal council of Neuchâtel and the Grand Council of Neuchâtel.[4]

Early life and education

Frey was born in Maroua, Cameroon,[5] as the daughter of a Swiss father, Paul Frey of Brugg, and a Fula mother, Fatimatou Bibabadama.[6] She was adopted by Katscha Frey.[5] As a mixed-race child in Switzerland, Frey faced considerable racism. Even her father advised her to "act as white as a lily".[7] She attended school in Canton Neuchatel[7] and vocational school in Neuchatel from 1938 – 1941.[5]

Professional career

From 1943 to 1971 she taught business classes at the Ecole de commerce of Neuchâtel.[5] After her political career came to an end, she returned to teaching and from 1976 to 1984, she was director of the Ecole professionnelle de jeunes filles.[5]

Political career

She became active in politics in 1959 once the Canton of Neuchâtel gave women the right to vote and run for public office.[8] She joined the Free Democratic Party of Switzerland (FDP) and was elected into the municipal council of Neuchâtel in 1964.[4] When she was elected to the Grand Council of Neuchâtel 1969, she became the first person of color to serve in that body.[9] In a referendum of 1971, Swiss voters approved giving women the right to vote and to stand for office. Frey entered the race for the National Council in the 1971 Swiss federal election and won a seat as a member of the FDP, joining nine other women who entered the council. Media coverage at the time was heavily focused on her race during the campaign.[7] In 1974 she resigned from municipal council in Neuchâtel.[4] She was not re-elected to the National Council in the 1975 election.[8] Among her key issues were equal pay for woman and legalized abortion.[3]

Frey died on 27 June 2008 in her hometown of Neuchâtel at the age of 85.[3]

Legacy

Espace Tilo-Frey in Neuchâtel

In June 2019, Neuchâtel changed the name of Espace Louis-Agassiz, near the Faculty of Letters of the University of Neuchâtel area, to Espace Tilo Frey. Louis Agassiz was a professor of natural history and glaciology at University of Neuchâtel. He is now recognized as having held and propagated racist views, having published work on polygenism that claimed a ranking of the races in which blacks were inferior to whites and defended racial segregation.[8][10]

See also

References

  1. ^ Official Parliament Website
  2. ^ Deceased members of the Swiss Parliament Archived 2012-09-12 at archive.today
  3. ^ a b c "Une pionnière s'en est allée". ArcInfo (in French). 2015-08-02.
  4. ^ a b c "Outstanding Women". Federal Assembly. Retrieved 2020-01-04.
  5. ^ a b c d e Jeannin-Jaquet, Isabelle. "Frey, Tilo". Historical Dictionary of Switzerland (in German). Retrieved 2022-12-27.
  6. ^ Le Matin 06/07/2008 Archived 2012-07-07 at archive.today
  7. ^ a b c "Die schwarze Schweizer Polit-Pionierin" (in German). SRF. 2019-09-24.
  8. ^ a b c "Neuchâtel et les spectres du passé". Le Temps (in French). 2018-09-08.
  9. ^ Hanimann, Carlos (2021-06-02). "Der sonderbare Fall der Tilo Frey". Republik (in German).
  10. ^ "A Neuchâtel, Tilo Frey remplace Louis Agassiz" (in French). Le Temps. 2019-06-06.

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