Elisabeth Spohr

Elisabeth Spohr (born April 19, 1887 in Rheine ; † after 1933) was a German educator and politician ( DNVP ).

Life

After attending the secondary girls' school and the secondary school, Elisabeth Spohr studied German and theology. She insisted the teachers examination and received his doctorate in 1915 at the University of Greifswald to Dr. phil. (Dissertation: The representation of the figures in Immermann's epigones ). She then worked as a senior teacher at the royal Luisenstiftung in Poznan . In October 1919 she switched to the state Elisabethschule in Berlin as a teacher . She also worked as a publicist. From 1923 to 1933 she was chairwoman of the Union of Protestant Women's Associations.

After the November Revolution, Spohr joined the German National People's Party (DNVP). During the time of the Weimar Republic she acted as chairwoman of the party's Reich Women's Committee. From 1919 to 1921 she was a member of the Prussian State Constitutional Assembly . She was then elected to the Prussian state parliament, to which she belonged until the corporation was dissolved in October 1933.

literature

• Ernst Kienast (Ed.): Handbook for the Prussian Landtag , edition for the 5th electoral period, Berlin 1933, p. 386.
• Herrmann AL Degener (Ed.): Who is it? 9th edition, Leipzig 1928, p. 1496.