Gertrud Woker

Overview

Gertrud Woker born Bern, Switzerland December 16, 1878 (d. 1968). Swiss biochemistry professor; opponent of chemical weapons; WILPF founder and benefactor.

Quotations

"There can scarcely be a greater contradiction than that between the far-reaching protection which the state guarantees its citizens in their civil rights and the brutality with which the same state exposes the same citizens to absolute annihilation whenever it follows in its relations with other states the robber and murder-instincts of wild tribes." (The Next War, 1924; photo Danish Peace Acad.)