Ernestine Lutze

The female MPs of the MSPD in the Weimar National Assembly on June 1, 1919. Ernestine Lutze is in the back row, 3rd from the right.

Ernestine Lutze , b. Lehmann, (born June 17, 1873 in Merzdorf near Elsterwerda, † April 27, 1948 in Dresden ) was a German politician ( SPD , ASPD ).

Live and act

Ernestine Lutze attended elementary school in Dresden and Großenhain . She worked as a maid from the age of nine and later as a flower worker. As a professional association functionary, she was a co-founder and longstanding board member of the flower workers' association at the turn of the century. Since her wedding to the decorative painter Karl Otto Lutze, she had his name.

In 1911, Lutze attended the trade union school in Berlin. In Dresden she became a member of the committee of the general local health insurance fund . In 1917 she was appointed a member of the city's housing committee by the Dresden city council. After the outbreak of the November Revolution of 1918, Lutze became a member of the Workers 'and Soldiers' Council in Dresden.

After Lutze had been a speaker at political and trade union meetings for the Social Democratic Party (SPD) for years, from January 1919 to June 1920 she was a member of her party in the Weimar National Assembly , in which she represented constituency 28 (1st Saxony).

Lutze was also a board member of the Heimatdank association, in which she took over the job placement department for warrior women, and from 1913 to 1917 a board member of the district leadership of the factory workers 'association and workers' representative association of the district main team in Dresden.

In June 1926, Lutze joined the Old Socialist Party of Saxony . She became a member of the central party executive committee and the executive committee of the East Saxony district. From 1927 to 1929 she was a city councilor in Dresden.

Web links

Literature by and about Ernestine Lutze in the catalog of the German National Library
Ernestine Lutze in the database of members of the Reichstag

Individual evidence

↑ Stadtmuseum Dresden (ed.): 100 years of women's suffrage . Women vote in Dresden. Dresden 2019, p. 10-11 .
↑ Anita Maaß : Political Communication in the Weimar Republic. The Dresden City Council 1918–1933 . Leipziger Universitätsverlag, Leipzig 2009, ISBN 978-3-86583-371-6 , Annex 2, p. 32.

personal data
SURNAME	Lutze, Ernestine
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German politician (SPD)
DATE OF BIRTH	June 17, 1873
PLACE OF BIRTH	Merzdorf near Elsterwerda
DATE OF DEATH	April 27, 1948
Place of death	Dresden

[1] Stadtmuseum Dresden (ed.): 100 years of women's suffrage . Women vote in Dresden. Dresden 2019, p. 10-11 .

[2] Anita Maaß : Political Communication in the Weimar Republic. The Dresden City Council 1918–1933 . Leipziger Universitätsverlag, Leipzig 2009, ISBN 978-3-86583-371-6 , Annex 2, p. 32.