Anna Schmidt (politician, 1894)

Anna Schmidt (born November 24, 1894 in Magdeburg-Neustadt ; † after 1947) was a German politician and member of parliament ( USPD , KPD , SED ).

Anne Schmidt attended elementary school and in 1917 married the lathe operator Ewald Schmidt (a “class-conscious worker”, according to her own statement in the Landtag manual). In January 1919 she joined the USPD in Biederitz and worked as a helper in the child friendship movement . From 1924 she was secretary in the federal government of the Federation of Independent School Societies .

After the seizure of power by the Nazis, it participated by its own account in the Diet Manual from 1933 to July 1934 in an illegal group of the KPD in Magdeburg-Altstadt . In April 1938 the Gestapo interrogated again .

In May 1945 she joined the KPD in Groß- Oschersleben and after the compulsory unification became a member of the local executive committee, women leader of the SED and leader of the anti-fascist women committee. Since May 1947 she was a member of the state parliament for Klara Schwab . In the semi-free state elections in the Soviet zone in 1946 , she ran for the state parliament of Saxony-Anhalt in constituency II ( Burg , Magdeburg , Schönebeck , Jerichow I , Wolmirstedt , Haldensleben , Wanzleben ) , but initially only succeeded.

literature

• Kurt Schwarze : Handbook of the State Parliament of Saxony-Anhalt. 1947, p. 183