Christine von Wattenwyl (25 November 1888 – 25 January 1964) was a Swiss Salvationist officer and religious worker.
Christine von Wattenwyl was born on 25 November 1888 to a family of the Swiss nobility.
[2] In 1912, von Wattenwyl enrolled in the Salvation Army's officers' school in London.
[3] Modeled after the prison welfare system of the Salvation Army in Japan, von Wattenwyl set up an independent branch of prison welfare that included spiritual and material support for inmates and their families and aftercare programs following inmate release.
She was posthumously awarded the Order of the Founder that same year, becoming the third Swiss woman to receive the honor.