Anna Perthen
Anna Perthen | |
|---|---|
| Member of the Senate | |
| In office 1920–1925 | |
| Constituency | Mladá Boleslav |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Anna Nickel 22 December 1866 Eulau, Austrian Empire |
| Died | 11 December 1957 (aged 90) Magdala, East Germany |
Anna Perthen (22 December 1866 – 11 December 1957) was a Czechoslovakian politician. In 1920 she was one of the first group of women elected to the Senate, remaining in parliament until 1925.
Biography[edit]
Perthen was born Anna Nickel in Eulau in the Austrian Empire (today Jílové in the Czech Republic) in 1866.[1] She began working in a factory in Bodenbach at the age of 12,[2] and continued to work there until she married. She became involved with the Social Democratic Workers' Party of Austria, chairing the Imperial Women's Social Democratic Committee and becoming a member of Bodenbach municipal council.[1]
Following the independence of Czechoslovakia at the end of World War I, Perthen became a member of the German Social Democratic Workers' Party (DSAP) and chair of its women's committee. She was a DSAP candidate for the Senate in the 1920 parliamentary elections, and was one of sixteen women elected to parliament.[1] She remained in parliament until 1925.[1] After World War II she was deported to Germany, where she settled in the Soviet occupation zone, later East Germany. She died in Magdala in 1957.[1]
References[edit]
- ^ a b c d e Aleš Ziegler (2011) Úloha žen v prvních československých parlamentních volbách roku 1920, pp85, 101, 104
- ^ Anna Perthen z Jílového, jedna ze tří prvních senátorek Czech Radio
- 1866 births
- 1957 deaths
- People from Děčín District
- Sudeten German people
- Social Democratic Party of Austria politicians
- Czechoslovak women in politics
- Members of the Senate of Czechoslovakia (1920–1925)
- German Social Democratic Workers' Party in the Czechoslovak Republic politicians
- People from Austria-Hungary