Margarete Poehlmann
Margarete Poehlmann (born June 29, 1856 in Tilsit ; † December 25, 1923 there ) was a German politician ( DVP ).
Life
After attending secondary school for girls, Margarete Poehlmann completed the secondary school for women teachers and undertook trips abroad to England and France to study. From 1876 to 1882 she worked as a teacher at the municipal high school for girls in Tilsit and from 1888 to 1920 she was director of the Tilsit Private Lyceum.
Poehlmann was involved in the women's movement. She was chairwoman of the Association of East Prussian Women's Associations and chairwoman of the Tilsit branch of the General German Women's Association (ADF). At the ADF she was a member of the federal executive committee from 1905 to 1907. In 1919 she was elected to the Prussian State Constitutional Assembly for the German People's Party (DVP) and then to the Prussian Landtag in 1921 , to which she belonged until her death. On March 5, 1919, she gave the first speech by a woman in the Prussian state parliament.
In her memory, the lyceum in Tilsit was renamed Margarete-Poehlmann-Schule in the 1920s.
literature
- Office of the Prussian Landtag (ed.): Handbook for the Prussian Landtag . Prussian publishing house, Berlin 1921, p. 292.
- Else Ulich-Beil : Yearbook of the Federation of German Women's Associations 1921–1927 . Bund Deutscher Frauenvereine, Bensheimer, Mannheim 1927, p. 31.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Meeting reports of the constituent Prussian state assembly, Volume 1, Berlin 1921, columns 320–321.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Poehlmann, Margarete |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German politician (DVP), MdL |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 29, 1856 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Tilsit |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 25, 1923 |
| Place of death | Tilsit |