Maria Karch

Maria Karch (born September 13, 1877 as Maria Ludenia in Görlitz , † July 6, 1958 ) was a German politician (SPD; USPD).

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Maria Ludenia was born into a working class family. After attending elementary school in Görlitz from 1883 to 1891, Ludenia earned her living as a commercial clerk. For this purpose, she completed an apprenticeship as an assistant in Görlitz from 1891 to 1894. She took the name Karch around 1900 after marrying the bricklayer Hermann Karch from Lower Silesia . A daughter, Erika, emerged from the marriage. In 1910 the family settled in Forst in Lusatia.

During the First World War or in the immediate post-war period, Karch broke with the SPD and switched to the Independent Social Democratic Party of Germany (USPD). From 1919 she worked in municipal bodies in her hometown. After the Reichstag election of June 1920 , she moved into the first Reichstag of the Weimar Republic , in which she represented constituency 5 (Frankfurt Oder) until the election in May 1924. In 1922 Karch left the USPD again and joined the Communist Party of Germany (KPD), whose parliamentary group she also joined.

In April 1924 Karch - now independent - was elected to the town council of Forst, to which she belonged until 1929, without making a big difference in her.

In the late 1930s opened Karch a grocery store in Forst, who was on the ground floor of her apartment building on the corner of Fruit Street / Virchowstraße no. 18th She ran the business, with a brief interruption in early 1945, until May 1946. In old age, Karch went blind so that she had to take care of herself. In 1958 she died.

literature

• Hagen Puch: "Maria Karch - A Forester in the German Reichstag", in: Museum Association of the City of Forst: Forsten Yearbook for History and Local History , 2006.

Web links

• Maria Karch in the database of members of the Reichstag