List of women in the parliaments of the Weimar Republic

The list of women in the state parliaments of the Weimar Republic provides an overview of women who were members of the elected or appointed state parliaments and citizenships of the states of the German Reich during the Weimar Republic (1918–1933) .

Surname	Political party	Parliament	From	To	comment	image
Anna Bahn	KPD	Stop	1932	1933
Marie Kettmann	SPD	Stop	1918	1920
Antonie Buchheim	DVP	Stop	1924	1924
Emilie Henze	KPD	Stop	1924	1924
Frieda Fiedler	SPD	Stop	1924	1932	1932 MdR
Marie Bernays	BVP	to bathe	1921	1925
Therese Blase	SPD	to bathe	1919	1930	City councilor in Mannheim
Maria Beyerle	Z	to bathe	1919	1925
Kunigunde fisherman	SPD	to bathe	1919	1930
Sofie Regenscheit	SPD	to bathe	1919	1921
Maria Rigel	Z	to bathe	1919	1933
Marie Castle	DDP	to bathe	1919	1921
Marianne Weber	DDP	to bathe	1919	1921	Speech as the first woman in the Baden parliament
Helene Platenius	DDP	to bathe	1920	1920
Johanna Richter	DNVP	to bathe	1921	1933	Secretary in LT
Maria Beyerle	Z	to bathe	1926	1928
Ellen Ammann	BVP	Bavaria	1919	1932	† 1932; Suppression of the Hitler putsch in 1923
Anita Augspurg	USPD	Bavaria	1918	1919	later runs unsuccessfully
Aloisia Eberle	BVP	Bavaria	1918	1924
Hedwig fighter	USPD	Bavaria	1918	1919	1919–1924 city councilor
Rosa Kempf	DDP	Bavaria	1918	1920
Luise Kiesselbach	DDP	Bavaria	1918	1919	1919–1927 city councilor
Emilie Mauerer	SPD	Bavaria	1918	1920	† 1924
Helene Sumper	-	Bavaria	1918	1919	† 1926
Käthe Günther	DDP	Bavaria	1919	1920	Board member
Therese Schmitt	BVP	Bavaria	1919	1920	Palatinate
Lina Ammon	SPD	Bavaria	1920	1933	1948–1960 city councilor
Pink ash burner	USPD	Bavaria	1920	1922
Klara Barth	BVP	Bavaria	1920	1933	Palatinate
Aurelie Deffner	SPD	Bavaria	1920	1922	no further candidacy
Elisabeth Kaeser	SPD	Bavaria	1920	1924	1946 Constituent State Assembly
Gertraud Wolf	BMP	Bavaria	1920	1924	later DVP
Elisabeth Kaeser	SPD	Bavaria	1928	1932	1946 Constituent State Assembly
Gertraud Wolf	DVP	Bavaria	1930	1932	until 1924 BMP
Viktoria Hösl	KPD	Bavaria	1932	1933	Works councilor
Maria von Gebsattel	BVP	Bavaria	1918	1919
Minna Bahnson	DDP	Bremen	1919	1933
Rita Bardenheuer	SPD	Bremen	1919	1922
Gesine Becker	KPD	Bremen	1920?	1930
Erna Frank	SPD	Bremen	1919	1921
Hanna Harder	SPD	Bremen	1919	1933
Agnes Heineken	DDP	Bremen	1919	1921
Elisabeth Jensen	SPD	Bremen	1919	1924	† 1924; BX
Clara Young Lunch	SPD	Bremen	1919	1933
Elise Kesselbeck	KPD	Bremen	1919	1923
Elisabeth Lürssen	DVP	Bremen	1920?	1927	BrAr
Charlotte Niehaus	USPD	Bremen	1920?	1922	> SPD
Mathilde Plate	DNVP	Bremen	1919	1933
Verena Rodewald	DVP	Bremen	1919	1933
Meta Sattler	DDP	Bremen	1919	1920
Anna Stiegler	USPD	Bremen	1919	1922	> SPD
Charlotte Niehaus	SPD	Bremen	1922	1933	USPD>
Anna Stiegler	SPD	Bremen	1922	1933	USPD>
Agnes Heineken	DDP	Bremen	1923	1930
Helene Magarin	SPD	Bremen	1924	1933	BX
Elisabeth Lürssen	DVP, Bremen Working Group	Bremen	1927	1933	DVP
Hermione Berthold	SPD	Bremen	1930	1933
Cecilie Brickenstein	DNVP	Bremen	1930	1933
Luise Eildermann	KPD	Bremen	1930	1931
Käthe Lübeck	KPD	Bremen	1930	1931
Guste Schepp	DDP	Bremen	1930	1933
Minna Fasshauer	USPD	Braunschweig	1919	1924	People's Commissar for Popular Education in the Socialist Republic of Braunschweig , thus the first woman to hold a kind of ministerial office in Germany
Marie Mathis	DVP	Braunschweig	1918	1927	initially member of the Braunschweig regional electoral association
Ida Undeutsch	SPD	Braunschweig	1918	1919
Hulda Graf	USPD, SPD	Braunschweig	1920	1933
Tilla von Praun	DVP	Braunschweig	1924	1933
Martha Fuchs	SPD	Braunschweig	1927	1930	From 1959 to 1964 mayor of the city of Braunschweig
Marie Bautz	SPD	Hamburg	1919	1924
Lina Maria Becker	KPD	Hamburg	1924	1927
Marie Becker	DVP	Hamburg	1924	1927
Emmy Beckmann	DDP	Hamburg	1921	1933
Emma Ender	DVP	Hamburg	1919	1924
Ketty Guttmann	KPD	Hamburg	1921	1924
Marie Henning	KPD	Hamburg	1931	1933
Paula Henningsen	SPD	Hamburg	1921	1933
Paula Karpinski	SPD	Hamburg	1931	1933
Martha Kimmerling	SPD	Hamburg	1919	1921
Katharina Kuhn	USPD	Hamburg	1919	1921
Helene Lange	DDP	Hamburg	1919	1921
Magda Langhans	KPD	Hamburg	1931	1933
Hildegard Ollenhauer	SPD	Hamburg	1933	1933
Frieda Radel	DDP	Hamburg	1919	1927
Adele Reiche	SPD	Hamburg	1924	1927
Johanne Reitze	SPD	Hamburg	1919	1921
Erna Rieckmann	USPD	Hamburg	1919	1920
Anna Schaper	DNVP	Hamburg	1919	1924
Minna Schröder	SPD	Hamburg	1919	1921
Elisabeth Seifahrt	DDP	Hamburg	1919	1927
Ida Stengele	SPD	Hamburg	1919	1927
Magda Thürey	KPD	Hamburg	1932	1933
Bertha Wendt	DDP	Hamburg	1919	1924
Alice Wosikowski	KPD	Hamburg	1928	1933
Margarete Zabe	SPD	Hamburg	1919	1933
Karoline Balser	DDP	Hesse	1919	1927
Else Bierau	DVP	Hesse	1919	1921
Elisabeth Hattemer	Z	Hesse	1919	1933
Anna Maria Rauck	SPD	Hesse	1919	1921
Margarethe Steinhäuser	SPD	Hesse	1919	1927
Margarethe Steinhäuser	SPD	Hesse	1930	1931
Maria Birnbaum	DVP	Hesse	1921	1931
Katharina Roth	KPD	Hesse	1922	1927
Julie Heraeus	DNVP	Hesse	1924	1931
Christina Noll	SPD	Hesse	1927	1931
Lily Pringsheim	SPD	Hesse	1931	1933
Marie Schmidt	KPD	Hesse	1931	1932
Cilly Shepherd	KPD	Hesse	1932	1933
Auguste Bracht	SPD	lip	1919	1921
Clara Lüken	DVP, Z	lip	1920	1929	Successor
Marie Kraft	SPD	lip	1921	1929
Luise Rinsche	SPD	lip	1929	1933
Charlotte Landau-Mühsam	DDP	Lübeck	1919	1921
Marie Cordes	SPD	Mecklenburg-Schwerin	1921	1924
Elise Fincke	DDP	Mecklenburg-Schwerin	1919	1921
Hermine Countess von Bernstorff	DNVP	Mecklenburg-Schwerin	1920	1921
Margarete Detmering	DVP	Mecklenburg-Schwerin	1920	1924
Margarete Ketelhohn	SPD	Mecklenburg-Schwerin	1920	1933
Klara Schleker	DNVP	Mecklenburg-Schwerin	1920	1924	first age president of the state parliament
Katharine Markens	DNVP	Mecklenburg-Schwerin	1924	1927
Rosa Niebuhr	KPD	Mecklenburg-Schwerin	1924	1926
Frieda Haller	SPD	Mecklenburg-Schwerin	1924	1932
Hanny Voss	DNVP	Mecklenburg-Schwerin	1929	1933
Lotte Möller	SPD	Mecklenburg-Strelitz	1920	1923
Erna Weiland	SPD	Mecklenburg-Strelitz	1918	1919
Elise Siemß	SPD	Mecklenburg-Strelitz	1919	1920
Else Salow	SPD	Mecklenburg-Strelitz	1923	1927
Maria Brand	Z	Oldenburg	1919	1920
Auguste Henke	DVP	Oldenburg	1921	1922
Ilse Wübbenhorst	SPD	Oldenburg	1932	1932
Elisabeth Frerichs	SPD	Oldenburg	1932	1933
Martha Arendsee	KPD	Prussia	1919	1924	1924-1930 member of the Reichstag
Hedwig Dransfeld	Z	Prussia	1919	1920	gave up her seat in the Prussian state parliament because she had won a seat in the Reichstag
Lotte Garnich	DVP	Prussia	1919	1924
Else Giese	Z	Prussia	1919	1933	from 1928–1933 assessor in the Landtag Presidium
Barbara Gotthusen	SPD	Prussia	1919	1921
Emma Grasse	SPD	Prussia	1919	1921
Gertrud Hanna	SPD	Prussia	1919	1933
Margarete Heine	DDP	Prussia	1919	1921
Else Heiser-Jacquet	SPD	Prussia	1919	1921
Maria Hessberger	Z	Prussia	1919	1932
Christine John	USPD	Prussia	1919	1921
Luise Kähler	SPD	Prussia	1919	1921
Anna Karl	SPD	Prussia	1920	1921
Dr. Amalie Lauer	Z	Prussia	1919	1933
Berta Lawatsch	SPD	Prussia	1919	1924
Anna Mosegaard	SPD	Prussia	1919	1919	She was elected but did not take up her mandate.
Margarete Poehlmann	DVP	Prussia	1919	1923	eliminated by death
Minna Reichert	USPD	Prussia	1920	1921
Elisabeth Spohr	DNVP	Prussia	1919	1933
Elisabeth Stoffels	Z	Prussia	1919	1933
Dr. Paula Turk	SPD	Prussia	1920	1922
Hildegard Wegscheider	SPD	Prussia	1919	1933
Antonie Wohlgemuth	SPD	Prussia	1919	1933
Gertrud Wronka	Z	Prussia	1919	1933	1946–1949 member of parliament in Thuringia
Emma Bachem	Z	Prussia	1922	1929
Minna Bollmann	SPD	Prussia	1921	1933	1919–1921 member of the Reichstag
Sofie Christmann	USPD, SPD	Prussia	1921	1933
Therese German	DNVP	Prussia	1921	1932
Martha Dönhoff	DDP	Prussia	1919	1932
Mathilde Drees	DDP	Prussia	1924	1924
Lina Ege	SPD	Prussia	1919	1928
Sibylla Eickelboom	Z	Prussia	1921	1928
Maria Feldhuss	Z	Prussia	1919	1922
Else fish	DDP	Prussia	1924	1924
Amalie Froehlich	DVP	Prussia	1921	1924
Herta Geffke	KPD	Prussia	1921	1925	1946–1950 MPs in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, 1948–1949 German People's Council
Pink helper	SPD	Prussia	1921	1933	1947–1952 MPs in Lower Saxony
Else Höfs	SPD	Prussia	1921	1928
Dr. Else Kemper	DVP	Prussia	1921	1924	1949–1961 member of the Bundestag under her married name Brökelschen
Marie Kunert	USPD, SPD	Prussia	1921	1928
Toni Jensen	SPD	Prussia	1921	1933
Elisabeth Röhl	SPD	Prussia	1921	1930	resigned by death, 1919–1921 member of the Reichstag
Berta Kroeger	SPD	Prussia	1921	1933
Anny from Kulesza	DVP	Prussia	1921	1933
Annagrete Lehmann	DNVP	Prussia	1921	1928	1928–1933 member of the Reichstag
Anna Lex	SPD	Prussia	1922	1924
Johanna Ludewig	KPD	Prussia	1921	1933
Use Noack	DNVP	Prussia	1921	1932
Annemarie Oestreicher	SPD	Prussia	1921	1932
Anna Oventrop	KPD, SPD	Prussia	1921	1932
Luise Schiffgens	SPD	Prussia	1921	1924	1924–1930 MPs in the Reichstag, 1947–1954 MPs in Saarland under her married name Mössinger-Schiffgens
Marie Siegert	DVP	Prussia	1922	1924
Anna Simon	SPD	Prussia	1921	1924	1919–1921 member of the Reichstag
Magdalene from Tiling	DNVP	Prussia	1921	1930	1930–1933 member of the Reichstag
Helene Weber	Z	Prussia	1921	1924	1919–1921 and 1924–1933 members of the Reichstag, 1947–1948 members of North Rhine-Westphalia, 1948 Parliamentary Council , one of the four mothers of the Basic Law , 1949–1963 member of the Bundestag
Ruth Elfriede Golke	KPD	Prussia	1924	1928	known as Ruth Fischer
Elsa Hielscher-Panten	DNVP	Prussia	1924	1932
Dr. Gertrud Klausner	DDP	Prussia	1924	1928
Karoline Kunert	SPD	Prussia	1925	1933
Theodore Sophie Mehlis	DNVP	Prussia	1924	1932	1928 as a successor
Freda von Rechenberg	DNVP	Prussia	1924	1928
Elfriede Ryneck	SPD	Prussia	1924	1933	1919–1924 member of the Reichstag
Helene Schmitz	SPD	Prussia	1924	1932
Hedwig Thöne	DVP	Prussia	1924	1932
Jane Voigt	DVP	Prussia	1921	1932
Dr. Helene von Watter	DNVP	Prussia	1924	1933
Angela Zigahl	Z	Prussia	1924	1933
Albertine Badenberg	Z	Prussia	1924	1933
Kate Frankenthal	SPD, SAP	Prussia	1931	1932	Successor
Frieda Franz	KPD	Prussia	1931	1933	1948–1954 as Frieda Malter member of the People's Chamber of the GDR
Katharina Hertwig	DNVP	Prussia	1928	1933
Berta Jourdan	SPD	Prussia	1928	1932
Ilse Neumann	DNVP	Prussia	1928	1933
Helene Thomas	SPD	Prussia	1932	1932
Else Ulbrich	DNVP, CSVD	Prussia	1928	1932	1951–1954 MPs in Berlin
Hedwig Wachenheim	SPD	Prussia	1928	1933
Auguste Walter	SPD	Prussia	1928	1933
Alwine Wellmann	SPD	Prussia	1928	1932
Helene Wessel	Z	Prussia	1928	1933	1947–1948 MP in North Rhine-Westphalia, 1948 Parliamentary Council , one of the four mothers of the Basic Law , 1949–1953 and 1957–1969 Member of the Bundestag, first female party chairman in Germany
Maria Eckertz	KPD	Prussia	1932	1933
Else Meier	KPD	Prussia	1932	1933
Helene Rothländer	Z	Prussia	1932	1933	1946–1951 MPs in Rhineland-Palatinate
Annemarie Scholtz	KPD	Prussia	1932	1933
Hanna Staubes	KPD	Prussia	1932	1933	Under the later married name Rautenbach 1947–1950 MPs in North Rhine-Westphalia
Maria Weinand	Z	Prussia	1932	1933
Dr. Paula Hertwig	DDP	Prussia	1932	1933
Margarete Finke	DVP	Reuss	1919	1923
Lucie Fischer	USPD	Reuss	1919	1921	later Thuringia
Else Heuwold	DDP	Reuss	1922	1923
Ida Opitz	USPD	Reuss	1919	1923
Marie Schulz	DDP	Reuss	1919	1920	later Thuringia
Elisabeth Hallauer	Z	Saar area	1922	1924
Luise Herrmann	KPD	Saar area	1932	1935
Ida Bauer	SPD	Saxony	1929	1929
Mily Bültmann	DNVP	Saxony	1920	1930
Anna Geyer	USPD	Saxony	1919	1919
Lene Glatzer	KPD	Saxony	1929	1930
Margarethe Groh	KPD	Saxony	1930	1933
Julie Salinger	DDP	Saxony	1919	1922
Dr. Else Ulich-Beil	DDP	Saxony	1919	1929	Interruption between 1920 and 1926
Helene Wagner	SPD	Saxony	1919	1926
Eva Büttner	SPD	Saxony	1920	1926
Magdalene Focke	DNVP	Saxony	1922	1922
Dr. Doris Hertwig	DVP	Saxony	1920	1926	1928–1930 as Doris Hertwig-Bünger member of the Reichstag
Olga grains	KPD	Saxony	1930	1930
Martha Kuehne	KPD	Saxony	1930	1933
Margarete Nischwitz	KPD	Saxony	1929	1931
Martha Schilling	SPD	Saxony	1922	1928
Martha Schlag	SPD	Saxony	1923	1933
Martha Seifert	SPD	Saxony	1933	1933
Bertha Thiel	SPD	Saxony	1929	1933
Elise Thümmel	USPD, SPD	Saxony	1920	1933
Wilhelmine Eichler	SPD	Saxony-Altenburg	1919	1920	before and afterwards until 1924 in the Reichstag, from February 1924 for the KPD
Gertrud Geisenheyner	DDP	Saxony-Altenburg	1919	1920
Anna Gerhardt	DNVP	Saxony-Altenburg	1919	1920
Auguste Drechsel	USPD	Saxe-Gotha	1919	1920
Elsa Krug	USPD	Saxe-Gotha	1919	1920
Anna Müller	SPD	Saxony-Meiningen	1919	1920
Helene Glaue	DDP	Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach	1919	1920
Amalie Rudolph	SPD	Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach	1919	1920
Maria Schott	DNVP	Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach	1919	1920	1923 to 1928 in the Reichstag
Marie Kreft	SPD	Schaumburg-Lippe	1919	1933
Kate Duncker	KPD	Thuringia	1921	1923
Lucie Fischer	SPD	Thuringia	1927	1932	previously MPs in Reuss: from 1930 Lucie Neupert
Helene Rosenhainer	KPD	Thuringia	1929	1932
Emma Sachse	SPD	Thuringia	1920	1933	Reichstag candidate
Agnes Schmidt	KPD	Thuringia	1923	1927
Marie Schulz	DDP	Thuringia	1920	1928	previously Reuss
Frida Winckelmann	KPD, KPO	Thuringia	1927	1929
Mathilde Brückner	SPD	Württemberg	1919	1920	MdR candidate
Emilie Hiller	SPD	Württemberg	1919	1933
Thekla Kauffmann	DDP	Württemberg	1919	1920
Maria Keinath	DDP	Württemberg	1919	1920
Mathilde Kühnert	Z	Württemberg	1919	1920
Ella Müller-Payer	DDP	Württemberg	1919	1920
Mathilde Planck	DDP	Württemberg	1919	1928	MdR and Member of the Bundestag candidate; Co-founder of the DDP
Luise Rist	Z	Württemberg	1919	1933
Laura Schradin	SPD	Württemberg	1919	1920	MdR and MdL candidate
Amélie von Soden	Z	Württemberg	1919	1919	passes on her mandate for personal reasons
Fanny Vorholz	SPD	Württemberg	1919	1920	with her husband in the congregation
Eugenie Willig	DDP	Württemberg	1919	1920	1945 co-founder of the DVP
Clara Zetkin	USPD KPD	Württemberg	1919	1920	1920–1933 member of the Reichstag
Ella Ehni	DDP	Württemberg	1920	1924
Klara Klotz	WBB	Württemberg	1920	1924
Elisabeth Eberhardt	DDP	Württemberg	1926	1928	MdR candidate
Elisabeth Heyd	DVP	Württemberg	1926	1928	MdR candidate
Sophie Döhring	SPD	Württemberg	1928	1933	MdR candidate
Klara Klotz	WBB	Württemberg	1931	1932
Mathilde Brückner	SPD	Württemberg	1932	1933	City councilor in Göppingen
Maria Walter	KPD	Württemberg	1932	1933	MdR candidate

Remarks

1. ↑ This is partly true for 1918 and 1933
2. ↑ Weber on January 15, 1919: “We women can only express our great joy and satisfaction that we have been called, and I believe I can say that we are better […] prepared than perhaps most of you believe . "