of Mothers and Infants, she accompanied unmarried mothers in need. In 1927 Leonhard Ragaz broke off contact with her. From 1929 to 1934 Staudinger lived with her second husband in Hirzel. She used the name Mohler from 1929 to 1937. She was poor with her living coming from handicrafts and self-sufficiency. Despite her poverty she housed refugees from 1933. She was helping communist aid organizations and in 1935 she founded the Swiss branch of the Women's Committee against War and Fascism. As its secretary, she was a delegate to international peace conferences. In 1936 she joined the Communist Party. In 1939 she worked for the communist Rundschau news agency. During the war, she supported herself either with unskilled work or the occasional newspaper article. Between 1944 and 1955 she was a member of the Labor Party and she was a secretary for the Coordination Office for Post-War Aid. When that stopped she went to work for the Forward magazine. In 1956, she became a Quaker and this revived her religious socialism. Staudinger lived with her youngest daughter in Zurich for a long time; in the summer months she often stayed in Feldis. Staudinger died in Wetzikon. There is a street named after her on the Ruggächern estate in Zurich that was created by ABZ. References 1886 births 1964 deaths People from Halle (Saale) Opinion journalists