Luise Blumberg

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Luise Blumberg (born February 8, 1890 in Mülheim an der Ruhr , † November 13, 1974 in Oberhausen ) was a German local politician and member of the Rhenish Provincial Parliament .

Luise Blumberg was born as the daughter of the businessman Christian Friedrich Heinrich Becker and his wife Anna Lindgens in Mülheim an der Ruhr. In 1907 she passed her Abitur at the Luisenschule and in 1909 married the lawyer Ernst Blumberg (1879–1914), who was drafted at the beginning of the war and was one of the first to die in the First World War . With the introduction of active and passive women's suffrage in the Weimar Republic, the widow, housewife and mother of two children was nominated by the German People's Party (DVP) as a candidate in the local elections. In 1919 she moved into the Mülheim city council as the first woman alongside Maria Büssemeier and Katharina Haverkamp (both center party ). She exercised her mandate for two terms (until 1929). From 1932 to 1933 she sat as a member of the constituency of Oberhausen in the 79th Rhenish Provincial Parliament until it was dissolved by the National Socialists .

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  • City archive Mülheim an der Ruhr, holdings 1194, 1290 a. 1550