Katharina Kuhn

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Katharina Maria Kuhn (born Schütt ; born June 9, 1878 in Mainz , † October 4, 1948 in Hamburg ) was a Hamburg politician for the USPD and a member of the Hamburg Parliament .

Life and politics

Katharina Kuhn was trained as a teacher for the secondary school in Darmstadt . After her training, she worked in various places in Germany at boarding schools , private schools , primary schools and " Feeble-Minded institutions " (parlance of the time). From 1903 she worked as a teacher at the Emilie Wüstenfeld -Lyzeum. From 1907 to 1911 she was trained as a senior teacher for natural sciences and worked in this position until May 1917.

She was taken into " protective custody " for six weeks on May 5, 1917 and was banned from teaching for six months because of her appearance at a women's meeting and the opinion expressed there.

She sat for the USPD from 1919 to 1921 in the Hamburg parliament .

literature

  • Rita Bake / Brita Reimers: That's how they lived! Walking on the paths of women in Hamburg's old and new town. Hamburg 2003, p. 194.
  • Ursula Büttner : Political new beginning in difficult times. Election and work of the first democratic citizenship 1919–1921 . Hamburg 1994, pp. 145/146.

Individual evidence

  1. Note in the catalog of the German National Library there are different life dates (1887 - 1937)