11 Facts About Dora Staudinger

Dora Forster became Dora Staudinger; then Dora Mohler was a German-Swiss religious socialist and publicist.

Dora Staudinger was brought in a religious household and she attended Halle's girls' elementary school until she was 14.

Dora Staudinger's mother prepared her for her expected role as wife and mother.

Dora Staudinger supported her husband, then a young aspiring scientist, by dictating his lectures and doing administrative work.

Dora Staudinger gave lectures on women's and cooperative issues in German-speaking Switzerland and offered introductory courses in cooperatives in Zurich.

Dora Staudinger was a board member of the housing co-operative Allgemeine Baugenossenschaft Zurich from 1919 to 1920 as an expert on housing welfare on two municipal committees between 1919 and 1929, she worked hard to ensure that the needs of single and married women working in the homes were part of the design.

From 1929 to 1934 Dora Staudinger lived with her second husband in Hirzel.

Dora Staudinger used the name Mohler from 1929 to 1937.

Dora Staudinger was poor with her living coming from handicrafts and self-sufficiency.

Dora Staudinger was helping communist aid organizations and in 1935 she founded the Swiss branch of the Women's Committee against War and Fascism.

Dora Staudinger lived with her youngest daughter in Zurich for a long time; in the summer months she often stayed in Feldis.