Clara Mende

Clara Mende

Clara Mende , b. Völker, in some sources also Klara , (born April 12, 1869 in Erfurt ; † 1947 ) was a German politician of the DVP .

Life and work

Clarta Völker was the daughter of the railway official Otto Völker. After attending the higher girls 'school in Jena , Mende, who was Protestant , graduated from the teachers' seminar there . She then took a language teacher exam in London . From 1901 to 1905 studied at the Humboldt University of Berlin Historical Sciences . Before graduating from university, she was employed by the Prussian state as a senior teacher in 1904 . She was married to the Berlin freight forwarder Friedrich Mende.

MPs

She was a co-founder of the German People's Party in 1918. Mende was a member of the Weimar National Assembly in 1919/20 . Then she was a member of the Reichstag for the German People's Party (DVP) until 1928 . She was chairman of the German Women's Committee to Combat the Guilt Lie .

Publications

• Ed .: The woman in politics . Staatspolitischer Verlag, Berlin 1918–1920. ISSN  2628-0604 (Supplement to: German Voices. Bi-monthly publication . Hackebeil [in Komm.], Berlin ISSN  2628-0353 )
• The German People's Party on the women's issue . Staatspolitischer Verlag, Berlin 1919. Archive.org.
• German striving for women. The German woman and the fatherland. German publishing company, Stuttgart 1925.

literature

• Mende, Clara . In: Wilhelm Kosch : Biographisches Staats Handbuch . Lexicon of politics, press and journalism . Continued by Eugen Kuri. Second volume. A. Francke Verlag, Bern and Munich 1963, p. 839.
• Martin Schumacher (Hrsg.): MdR The Reichstag members of the Weimar Republic in the time of National Socialism. Political persecution, emigration and expatriation 1933–1945. A biographical documentation , Droste, Düsseldorf 1991, p. 393 f.

Web links

• Clara Mende in the database of members of the Reichstag

Individual evidence

1. ↑ bundesarchiv.de