Margarethe Steinhäuser

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Margarethe Steinhäuser (born September 29, 1874 in Kitzingen ; † May 12, 1955 in Offenbach am Main ) was a Hessian politician ( SPD ) and a former member of the state parliament of the People's State of Hesse in the Weimar Republic .

family

Margarethe Steinhäuser was the daughter of basket maker Georg Treusch and his wife Anna Margareta nee Kreßmann. She attended elementary school and the women's labor school in Frankfurt am Main . In 1889 she began to work as a maid in Offenbach, later she became a housewife. Margarethe Treusch first married Franz Albert Frank (1871–1908) in 1895 and took his last name. The marriage resulted in three sons, the eldest of whom fell near Verdun in 1916 . After the death of her first husband, she married the second marriage on March 5, 1910, the metal worker Georg Paulus Steinhäuser (1865-1932).

Margarethe Steinhäuser was the founder of the Workers' Welfare Association in Offenbach.

politics

Margarethe Steinhäuser belonged to the Hessian state parliament from 1919 to 1927 and - as the successor to Reichstag representative Heinrich Ritzel - again from 1930 to 1931.

literature

  • Hans Georg Ruppel, Birgit Groß: Hessian MPs 1820–1933. Biographical evidence for the estates of the Grand Duchy of Hesse (2nd Chamber) and the Landtag of the People's State of Hesse (= Darmstädter Archivschriften. Vol. 5). Verlag des Historisches Verein für Hessen, Darmstadt 1980, ISBN 3-922316-14-X , p. 247.

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