Katharina Kloss

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Katharina Kloss

Katharina Kloss (born November 21, 1867 in Danzig ; † May 2, 1945 in Danzig-Langfuhr) was a German teacher and politician for the DDP .

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Kloss was born in 1867 as the fourth child of the businessman and Gdansk city councilor Robert Kloss and his wife, the pastor's daughter Elisabeth Hoffmann from Königswalde .

In her youth, Kloss was trained at the teachers' college in Gdansk, where she passed the teacher's exam in 1887. From 1888 she taught as a teacher at the Elisabethschule, a middle school for girls in Gdansk. In 1894 she was admitted to the board of the Gdańsk Teachers' Association. In 1897 Kloss became head of the Elisabeth School.

From January 1919 to June 1920 Kloss sat for the DDP as a member of constituency 2 (West Prussia) in the Weimar National Assembly . In addition, she had been a member of the working committee in the West Prussian Home Service from November 1918, where she “clarified the danger to Poland”.

literature

  • Kurt Forstreuter: Old Prussian biography . Vol. 4, 1961, p. 1236.

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