Elsa Matz

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Dr. Elsa Matz

Elsa Matz (born May 7, 1881 in Friedrichsort ; † May 10, 1959 in Munich ) was a German educator and politician ( DVP ).

Life and work

Elsa Matz was born on May 7, 1881 as the daughter of the rector of the Marine Garrison School in Friedrichsort near Kiel . She attended the naval garrison school, received additional private lessons and completed the teachers' seminar in Kiel. After graduating from the Royal High School in Kiel, she studied philology, history and philosophy at the universities in Kiel and Berlin from 1902 to 1907 . In 1906 she passed the Upper teachers exam, received his doctorate in 1907, Dr. phil. and passed the state examination as senior teacher (pro fac. doc.) in the same year. She then worked as a senior teacher at the municipal lyceum in Stettin with a university in Schöneberg near Berlin .

Since 1911 Matz was director of the municipal lyceum and the municipal seminars in Rüstringen and Oldenburg . In 1916 she became director of the municipal women's school and the Gesenius-Wegener-Lyceum in Stettin . In addition, she was active in war relief and was a part-time employee at the Provincial School Council in Stettin. In addition, she was the secretary of the German Association for Higher Girls 'Schools, Chairwoman of the Association of Pomeranian Senior Teachers and a board member of the Teachers' Association, the Patriotic Women's Association and the Academic Association in Stettin. After the end of the First World War she was a member of the Prussian constitutional church assembly. Since 1929 she was senior director of the Westend-Oberlyzeum in Berlin-Westend . Elsa Matz died in Munich on May 10, 1959.

politics

Matz joined the German People's Party (DVP) in 1919. She was elected to the party's executive committee (board of directors) in the early 1920s and was first chairwoman of the DVP's Reich Women's Committee. In the Reichstag election in June 1920 , she was elected to the German Reichstag , to which she initially belonged until May 1924. In parliament she represented constituency 6 (Pomerania). From December 1924 to March 1933 she was again a member of the Reichstag . She was also the chairwoman of the women's committee in the German Reich Committee for Physical Exercise and since the late 1920s she has been an assessor at the film supervisory board and the test board for dirty and trash writings in Berlin.

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SURNAME Matz, Elsa
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German educator and politician (DVP), MdR
DATE OF BIRTH May 7, 1881
PLACE OF BIRTH Friedrichsort
DATE OF DEATH May 10, 1959
Place of death Munich