Clara Lüken

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Clara Lüken (born October 10, 1871 in Oldenburg (Oldb) ; † November 27, 1946 in Heiligenkirchen ) was a German student councilor and member of the Lippe state parliament (DVP).

Life

Clara Lüken was one of five children of the doctor Bernhard Adolf Lüken and his wife Maria Carolin geb. Boecking. Lüken studied in Göttingen and then worked as a senior teacher in Heiligenkirchen. From 1906 to 1921 she was the director of the teachers' seminar in Detmold, which had been founded the year before, and then she worked at the Lippisches teachers seminar.

On November 30, 1918, the provisional Lippe Revolutionary government abolished the old three-class suffrage and resolved the active and passive right to vote for all citizens from the age of 20. As the first female MPs in 1919 was Auguste Bracht in Lippi's parliament elected on November 29 In 1920, Clara Lüken for the late Adolf Meier . In the first electoral period, Lüken belonged to the Lippischer Wahlverband, from 1921 to 1928 she belonged to the parliamentary group of the DVP . Then she left the state parliament.

In 1933, the National Socialists pushed her to retire.

literature

  • Hans Hüls: Voters and behavior at the polls in the Land of Lippe during the Weimar Republic (=  special publications by the Natural Science and Historical Association for the Land of Lippe . Volume 22 ). Detmold 1974.
  • 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. 224.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Ancestors and descendants of Caspar Holderbaum. In: genealogie.landesmuseum-birkenfeld.de. Retrieved October 4, 2019 .
  2. ↑ a b “All German men and women are entitled to vote.” January 19th marks the 100th anniversary of the first democratic election. In: lippe-aktuell.de. Retrieved October 4, 2019 .
  3. ^ Statistical yearbook of secondary schools and curative educational institutions in Germany, Luxembourg and Switzerland . XXIX. Volume, 1st part. BG Teubner, 1908, p. 418 .
  4. ↑ Horst Wattenberg: On the Lippe women's suffrage. In: Community letter 256 of the parish of Brake. Retrieved October 4, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Lüken, Clara
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Lüken, Klara
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German student councilor and member of the Lippe state parliament
DATE OF BIRTH October 10, 1871
PLACE OF BIRTH Oldenburg (Oldb)
DATE OF DEATH November 27, 1946
Place of death Holy Churches