Anna Ziegler (politician)

Anna Ziegler

Anna Ziegler (born June 10, 1882 in Backnang as Anna Strauss , † December 27, 1942 in Schwäbisch Hall ) was a German politician (USPD, SPD).

Live and act

Strauss was born the daughter of a red tanner . She attended elementary school . She then earned a living as a maid for a few years. During a job in Frankfurt am Main in 1905, Strauss met the union employee and social democrat Hans Ziegler , whom she married in 1913. After the marriage, she gave up her maiden name and took her husband's last name. The marriage with Hans Ziegler, who brought a daughter from a previous relationship into the marriage, remained childless and was divorced again in 1924.

Under the influence of her husband, Ziegler had already joined the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) in 1906 . During the First World War , in 1915, she joined the Independent Social Democratic Party of Germany (USPD), a newly founded party that was primarily recruited from supporters of the left wing of the SPD who were dissatisfied with the war policy of the SPD leadership.

In 1919 Ziegler became a member of the Heilbronn municipal council . In the Reichstag election of June 1920 , Ziegler was elected as a USPD candidate for constituency 34 (Württemberg) in the Reichstag , to which she belonged until May 1924. During this first legislative period of the Weimar Republic, Ziegler left the USPD and returned to the SPD. Accordingly, she joined the SPD parliamentary group in the Reichstag.

After their divorce, Ziegler left the Reichstag and the Heilbronn municipal council prematurely at her own request in 1924. She now moved to Leipzig . Little is known about her future life: In February 1938 Ziegler returned to her native Backnang and again took her maiden name Strauss. She died of cancer in a hospital in Schwäbisch Hall in 1942.

literature

• Ina Hochreuther: Women in Parliament. Southwest German MPs since 1919. Theiss, Stuttgart 1992, ISBN 3-8062-1012-8 . Pp. 47-48

Web links

• Anna Ziegler in the database of members of the Reichstag
• Anna Ziegler in the Heilbronn City Archives
• Biography of Anna Ziegler (politician) . In: Heinrich Best and Wilhelm H. Schröder : Database of Members of the National Assembly and the German Reichstag 1919–1933 (Biorab – Weimar)
• Biography of Anna Ziegler (politician) . In: Wilhelm H. Schröder : Social Democratic Parliamentarians in the German Reich and Landtag 1876–1933 (BIOSOP)