Marie Wackwitz

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Marie Wackwitz née Johanna Marie Louise Zinske , (born January 11, 1865 in Löbau ; † November 23, 1930 in Dresden ) was a socialist politician , women's rights activist and journalist.

Life

The daughter of a journeyman bricklayer attended elementary school and joined a workers' education association in 1889 and the SPD in 1890 . In the latter, since 1901, she was the agitator of the SPD party executive responsible for organizing women in Saxony and was a multiple party congress delegate. She also worked on the journal Die Equality, edited by Clara Zetkin .

In 1917 Marie Wackwitz joined the newly founded USPD . In 1919 she headed the USPD in the region around Weissenfels and was a member of the party's Reich Women's Committee and the editorial team of the USPD magazine Die Kampfin . Elected to the Reichstag for the constituency of Merseburg in June 1920 , she belonged to the left wing of the USPD, which merged with the KPD to form the VKPD at the end of the same year . As part of the internal party disputes over the March fights in Central Germany in 1921, Marie Wackwitz supported party leaders Paul Levi and Ernst Däumig and left the KPD in September 1921. In the following months, Marie Wackwitz belonged to the short-lived Communist Working Group (KAG) and joined the USPD again in the spring of 1922, with most of the USPD she returned to the SPD the following autumn.

In the following years, Marie Wackwitz was active as a journalist and was chairwoman of the SPD women's committee and the workers' welfare in the Halle-Merseburg district. In 1924 and 1928 she ran unsuccessfully for the Reichstag.

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SURNAME Wackwitz, Marie
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Zinske, Johanna Marie Louise (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (SPD, USPD, KPD), MdR, women's rights activist and journalist
DATE OF BIRTH January 11, 1865
PLACE OF BIRTH Löbau
DATE OF DEATH November 23, 1930
Place of death Dresden