Marcel Bollinger (17 April 1923 in

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– 17 May 2003 in Beringen) was a Swiss

freethinker Freethought (sometimes spelled free thought) is an unorthodox attitude or belief. A freethinker holds that beliefs should not be formed on the basis of authority, tradition, revelation, or dogma, and should instead be reached by other meth ...

Biography

Bollinger and his later wife Emmi were

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shaped in

youth groups of the working-class movement of the 1930s. He became a member of the

Social Democratic Party of Switzerland The Social Democratic Party of Switzerland (, SP; ), also called the Swiss Socialist Party (; , PS), is a List of political parties in Switzerland, political party in Switzerland. The SP has had two representatives on the Federal Council (Switzerl ...

and

trade union A trade union (British English) or labor union (American English), often simply referred to as a union, is an organization of workers whose purpose is to maintain or improve the conditions of their employment, such as attaining better wages ...

ists and was from 1956 to 1988 SP

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in Beringen. From 1958 to 1979 he was the central president of the Freethinkers Association of Switzerland.

Freethinker award

On 9 October 2015 the Swiss Freethinkers awarded the reidenkerpreis

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, worth 10,000 francs, for the first time. The

Freethinkers Freethought (sometimes spelled free thought) is an unorthodox attitude or belief. A freethinker holds that beliefs should not be formed on the basis of authority Authority is commonly understood as the legitimate power of a person or ...

Award will be awarded every two years and will be financed by a gift of inheritance.

References

External links

* http://tools.wmflabs.org/persondata/p/Marcel_Bollinger, http://tools.wmflabs.org/persondata/p/peende/9715635, Swiss trade unionists 2003 deaths Secular humanists 1923 births Social Democratic Party of Switzerland politicians {{Switzerland-bio-stub