When Swiss colonial entrepreneur Henri Dunant nursed wounded soldiers in Lombardy in June 1859, he followed in the footsteps of Florence Nightingale's nursing in the Crimean War (1853-56). And soon aspired to go beyond: dealing with the horrors of industrial warfare requires not only caring sisterhood but also male state power, Dunant demanded in his 1862 "Remembrance of Solferino." Both were found in Baden, where a women's association with an infirmary had already existed since 1859. From here, connections arise to the later Red Cross and the Geneva Convention "Concerning the Relief of the Lot of Military Persons Wounded in the Field" of 1864, which founded international humanitarian law. In the seminar we will examine military, technical, gender and legal historical contexts surrounding the "humanization" of war and trace transnational networks as well as regional historical traces.

Presence in the form of excursions