Anna Lex

Anna Lex (born May 26, 1870 in Neuruppin , † August 13, 1950 in Dortmund ) was a German politician .

Life

Anna Lex, b. Clocke was with the clerks married Rudolf Lex. Both moved from Mecklenburg to Westphalia before 1895 and lived in Dortmund since around 1903. Anna Lex was active in the Dortmund cooperative movement and in October 1904 founded the educational association for women and girls of the working classes, together with other wives of social democratic functionaries. Since 1906 she has been the social democratic women's representative for the Dortmund- Hörde district . In 1908 she was elected to the central executive committee of the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) for the Reichstag constituency of Dortmund-Hörde, and in the years up to 1924 she took part in several SPD party congresses and women's conferences. In 1919 she ran in vain for the Prussian State Constitutional Assembly . From 1919 to 1929 she was a member of the Dortmund city council. In April 1922 Lex replaced the late Otto Hue in the Prussian state parliament , where she only stayed until 1924. From 1923 Lex worked in the press commission of the Westfälische Allgemeine Volks-Zeitung .

literature

• Karin Jaspers / Wilfried Reinighaus: Westphalian-Lippian candidates in the January elections 1919. A biographical documentation , Münster: Aschendorff 2020 (Publications of the Historical Commission for Westphalia - New Series; 52), ISBN 9783402151365 , p. 122.