Minna Schilling

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Minna Schilling

Minna Martha Schilling (born May 29, 1877 in Freiberg in Saxony as Minna Petermann , later Minna Frölich , † April 22, 1943 in Weimar ) was a German politician.

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Minna Schilling (right) in a group of female MPs from the MSPD in 1919
The female MPs of the MSPD in the Weimar National Assembly on June 1, 1919. Minna Schilling sits in the front row, third from the left.

Petermann was born the daughter of a cigar worker. After attending elementary school from 1883 to 1891, Schilling was trained as a cigar worker. She took the name Schilling after her first marriage; After the divorce, she married the SPD politician August Frölich in 1928 and took the name Frölich. As a young woman she became a member of the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD), in which she mainly devoted herself to social work. She also worked in the credit agency for the Döbeln trade union cartel . In 1914 Schilling became a member of the War Support Committee. After the November Revolution in 1918, she became a member of the workers' council and district council of the Döbeln office . She also became a member of the SPD's district executive in the 10th Saxon Reichstag electoral district and city councilor in Döbeln. In June 1924 she became an unpaid councilor in Döbeln.

In January 1919 Schilling was elected to the Weimar National Assembly as a candidate of the SPD for constituency 30 (Saxony 15-23) . In the Reichstag election of June 1920 , Schilling was elected as a candidate of the SPD for constituency 33 (Chemnitz-Zwickau) in the Reichstag , to which she initially belonged until the election in May 1924 , whereby she missed re-election, so that she was initially for seven months resigned from parliament. In the Reichstag election of December 1924 , she managed to return to the Reichstag as a candidate of the SPD for constituency 29 (Leipzig), to which she now belonged until May 1928. In the Reichstag, Schilling stood out primarily as a social expert.

Schilling's estate is stored under the identification number 21823 in the State Archives in Leipzig. It mainly contains transcripts of a series of lectures given by the social democrat Hermann Duncker .

literature

  • Martin Schumacher (Hrsg.): MdR The Reichstag members of the Weimar Republic in the time of National Socialism. Political persecution, emigration and expatriation, 1933–1945. A biographical documentation . 3rd, considerably expanded and revised edition. Droste, Düsseldorf 1994, ISBN 3-7700-5183-1 .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Death Register StA Weimar, No. 356/1943
  2. ↑ Michael Schwartz : Socialist Eugenics. Eugenic social technologies in the debate and politics of the German social democracy 1890–1933 . Dietz-Verlag, Bonn 1995, p. 150, ISBN 3-8012-4066-5 (plus dissertation, University of Münster 1992).
  3. ^ Sächsisches Staatsarchiv Leipzig: The holdings of the Saxon State Archives Leipzig , 2004, p. 555.
personal data
SURNAME Schilling, Minna
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schilling, Minna Martha (full name); Petermann, Minna (maiden name); Happy, Minna
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (SPD), MdR
DATE OF BIRTH May 29, 1877
PLACE OF BIRTH Freiberg , Saxony
DATE OF DEATH April 22, 1943
Place of death Weimar