Gertrud Lodahl

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Gertrud Lodahl
The female MPs of the MSPD in the Weimar National Assembly on June 1, 1919. Gertrud Lodahl is in the back row, 4th from the right.

Gertrud Lodahl (born January 28, 1878 in Berlin ; † March 17, 1930 ) was a German politician (SPD).

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Gertrud Lodahl came from a Berlin working class family. After attending elementary school in Berlin, she first worked as a nanny and later as an unskilled worker in the printing trade. Around 1895 Lodahl joined the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) and the trade union, in which she was organizationally and speakerically active until the 1920s. In 1895 she became a member of the board of directors of the Berlin book printing workers' association. As editor of daily newspapers and magazines for the SPD, the trade union and the cooperative system, Lodahl also wrote a number of articles.

After their marriage, Lodahl worked in the consumer cooperative industry as a voluntary member of the supervisory board. During the First World War , she was active in war aid, in the price inspection office and on the advisory board of the War Food Office .

In February 1919 Lodahl advanced to the Weimar National Assembly , in which she represented constituency 8 (Posen) until the first regular Reichstag of the Weimar Republic met. After that she lived in Berlin-Köpenick until her death.

literature

  • 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 . 3rd, considerably expanded and revised edition. Droste, Düsseldorf 1994, ISBN 3-7700-5183-1 .

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Socialist monthly books , 1930, p. 595.
  2. Karen Hagemann: Frauenalltag und Männerpolitik , 1990, p. 709.