Anna Blos

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Anna Blos

Anna Berta Antonia Blos , b. Tomasczewska (* 4. August 1866 in Legnica ; † 27. April 1933 in Stuttgart ) was a German politician of the SPD , teacher , writer and women's rights activist .

Life and work

Tomb of Anna Blos and her husband in the Pragfriedhof, Stuttgart

After attending the retirement and secondary girls 'school and the Princess-Wilhelm-Stifts teachers' seminar in Karlsruhe , Blos, who was Protestant , studied history , literature and languages at the Humboldt University in Berlin . Then she worked as a senior teacher. Anna Blos was a member of the local school council of Stuttgart and later became the first woman in the German Reich to be a local school councilor .

As a women's rights activist and staunch advocate of women's suffrage , Anna Blos was a manager in the Württemberg Association for Women 's Suffrage . She founded the Association of Stuttgart Housewives in Stuttgart and was its chairman . She has also worked in various non-profit organizations.

Anna Blos had been married to Wilhelm Blos (1849–1927), who later became President of the State of Württemberg , from 1905 . From December 21 to 27, 1931, the old castle in Stuttgart burned down , and since 1922 it has also housed the couple's pensioner apartment. The widow Anna Blos not only lost her apartment, but also the very extensive library that she had built together during her husband's lifetime .

Anna Blos died in Stuttgart at the age of 66 and found her final resting place there in the Prague cemetery .

Political party

Despite their middle-class background, her father was Surgeon First Class, Blos joined the SPD and became a member of the executive committee of the party Württemberg.

MPs

In 1919, Anna Blos was the only female member of the Württemberg SPD to be elected to the Weimar National Assembly when it was elected to the German National Assembly. She was one of 37 women among the 423 MPs.

Honors

Street sign in Hamburg-Horn

Publications

  • Philipp Buonarroti : Babeuf and the conspiracy for equality, with the process they initiated and the pieces of evidence . Translated and introduced by Anna and Wilhelm Blos. JHW Dietz Nachf., Stuttgart 1909 (= International Library 49) digitized version (also a review by Hermann Wendel .)
  • A forgotten advocate for women . In: The new time weekly of the German social democracy . 29.1910-1911, Volume 2 (1911), Issue 43, pp. 751-756. Digitized
  • War and school . Publishing house “Internat. Korrespondenz “, Berlin-Karlshorst 1915. MDZ Reader
  • Local women’s work during the war . Publishing house for social sciences, Berlin 1917.
  • Women of the year 1848 , in: Illustrierte Reichsbanner-Zeitung , 12 (1927).
  • Wilhelm Blos . In: Yearbook of the historical association Alt-Wertheim . Wertheim 1927, SS 41-45.
  • Women of the 1848 Revolution in Germany. Ten life pictures and a foreword. Kaden & Comp., Dresden 1928.
  • Women in Swabia. Fifteen pictures of life . Silberburg, Stuttgart 1929 ( wlb-stuttgart.de ).
  • together with Anna Geyer , Adele Schreiber and Louise Schroeder : The question of women in the light of socialism , Kaden, Dresden 1930.

literature

  • Wilhelm Blos and Anna Blos . In: Franz Osterroth : Biographical Lexicon of Socialism , Volume I. Deceased Personalities , JHW ​​Dietz Nachf., Hannover 1960, pp. 26-27.
  • Our country and its social democrats. Wilhelm and Anna Blos , published by the SPD regional association Baden-Württemberg, Stuttgart 1977.
  • Maja Riepl-Schmidt : Anna Blos. Pioneers in women's history . In: Maja Riepl-Schmidt (Hrsg.): Against the overcooked and ironed out life. Women's emancipation in Stuttgart since 1800 . Silberburg, Stuttgart 1990, ISBN 3-925344-64-0 , p. 173-182 .
  • Ina Hochreuther: Women in Parliament. Southwest German MPs since 1919 , Theiss-Verlag, Stuttgart 1992, ISBN 3-8062-1012-8
  • Martin Schumacher (Hrsg.): MdR The Reichstag members of the Weimar Republic in the time of National Socialism. Political persecution, emigration and expatriation, 1933–1945. A biographical documentation . 3rd, considerably expanded and revised edition. Droste, Düsseldorf 1994, ISBN 3-7700-5183-1 .

Web links

Sources and Notes

  1. ↑ a b Anna Blos' biography on landtagswahl-bw.de , accessed on September 24, 2017
  2. ^ Mascha Riepl-Schmidt : Anna (1866-1933) and Wilhelm Blos (1849-1927) . In: Political Minds from Southwest Germany . Verlag W. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 2005, p. 75
  3. ↑ Anna and Wilhelm Blos at proaltcannstatt.de , accessed on December 7, 2015
  4. ↑ Blos memorial plaque on spd-stuttgart.de, accessed on December 7, 2015
  5. ↑ Philipp Buonarroti, Babeuf and the conspiracy for equality with the process initiated by them and the pieces of evidence. Translated and introduced by Anna and Wilhelm Blos. Published by JHW Dietz Nachf., Stuttgart. (International Library) 336 pages. Brooch 2 Mark, born 2.50 marks . In: The new time. Weekly of the German Social Democracy . 28.1909-1910, 1st volume. (1910), No. 10, pp. 347-348. Digitized
personal data
SURNAME Just, Anna
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Tomasczewska, Anna Berta Antonia (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German social democratic politician
DATE OF BIRTH 4th August 1866
PLACE OF BIRTH Liegnitz
DATE OF DEATH April 27, 1933
Place of death Stuttgart