Lilian Uchtenhagen

Uchtenhagen was born in 1928 at Olten in the Canton of Solothurn, the daughter of a businessman.

[3] After women gained the right to vote in national elections in 1971, Uchtenhagen joined the Social Democratic Party (SP),[3] and was one of the first ten women to be elected to the National Council, the Federal Assembly of Switzerland's Lower House.

[2][1][3] As the first female candidate in history, she received the nomination from the Social Democratic Party to succeed Willi Ritschard in the Swiss Federal Council in 1983.

[3] The TIME magazine article "Ladies Last" states that she lost her bid because of male reluctance to allow for a woman to serve on the council.

[2] A resident of the Canton of Zürich and the wife of Ambros Uchtenhagen, a Swiss psychiatrist[7] credited with the initiating of the establishment of the national drug policy.