Anne Franconia

Anne Franken (born November 29, 1890 in Cologne ; † June 15, 1958 ) was a German educator and politician.

Life

After graduating from high school, Franken studied pedagogy in Cologne and then worked as a teacher. From 1930 she was director of studies at the Luisenschule in Düsseldorf . During the First World War , she advocated women's suffrage . Franken was a member of the Center Party from 1918 to 1933 .

With the law for the restoration of the civil service at the beginning of the National Socialist rule , she lost her management position as a woman and was downgraded to a degree teacher. She worked in this position until 1945. After 1945 she was reinstated as senior director of studies and worked in this position until 1956.

In the immediate post-war period she was a co-founder of the CDU in the Rhineland . Between 1946 and 1947 she was a member of the appointed Landtag of North Rhine-Westphalia . In 1949 she was one of the founders of today's German-British Society . Between 1953 and 1958 Franken was a member of the German Committee for Education and until 1955 a member of the advisory committee for the press.

Web links

Anne Franken at the state parliament of North Rhine-Westphalia

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Hans Bohnenkamp, ​​Walter Dirks, Doris Knab (eds.): Recommendations and expert reports of the German Committee for Education 1953-1965. Complete edition . Ernst Klett Verlag, Stuttgart 1966, p. 13 .