Suzanne de Dietrich

Her Alsatian family was Lutheran, rooted in the faith tradition of the Ban de la Roche, marked by the pastors Jean-Frédéric Oberlin and Tommy Fallot.

[1][2] In 1929, she was elected vice-president of the World Student Christian Federation, responsible for ecumenical and liturgical matters.

Suzanne de Dietrich was secretary of the Fédération française des associations chrétiennes d'étudiants (FFACE) from 1914 to 1935, and a member of the executive committee of the UCJF from 1920 to 1936.

[3] From 1939-1940, faced with the distress of evacuees from Alsace and Lorraine, Suzanne de Dietrich became involved with the displaced populations of south-west France.

She sent a report to the Comité inter-mouvement (CIM), the body that coordinates the youth organizations belonging to the Fédération protestante de France, the UCJ (Unions chrétiennes de jeunes gens et jeunes filles, or YMCA) and Protestant scouts (boys in the Éclaireurs unionistes and girls in the Fédération française des éclaireuses), and the Fédération française des associations chrétiennes d'étudiants (la Fédé).