Marie Adam-Doerrer (23 March 1838 – 29 July 1908) was a Swiss women's rights activist and unionist. Born in Germany as Marie Doerrer, she trained as a goldsmith and worked in

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as a washerwoman, marrying the shoemaker Karl Adam. She joined the Social Democratic Party of Switzerland after losing her savings in a bank crash. In 1887, she co-founded the Bernese Women Workers' Association (''Arbeiterinnenverein''), and 1902, the Bernese Women Day Laborers' Association (''Tagelöhnerinnenverein''), which she presided over. Adam-Doerrer was a co-founder and member of numerous other Swiss women's organizations, and advocated in favor of cooperation between socialist and conservative women's organizations at the 1904 international women's congress.

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