Wilhelmine Eichler

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Wilhelmine Eichler
The female MPs of the MSPD in the Weimar National Assembly on June 1, 1919. Wilhelmine Eichler is in the back row, on the far right.

Wilhelmine Eichler (born April 5, 1872 in Queienfeld , † November 27, 1937 in Leipzig ) was a German politician ( SPD , KPD ).

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Wilhelmine Eichler was born in 1872 as the daughter of a linen weaver. After attending primary school in Queienfeld from 1878 to 1886, she worked as a maid until she was married in 1893. As a wife, she “learned the case industry”. Later she also worked as a brewery assistant and bookbinder. As a young woman, Eichler began to get involved in the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD). In 1906 Eichler became a board member of her party and the branch of the bookbinding association in Eisenberg. To deepen her political and organizational skills, she attended the trade union school in Berlin in 1913. In the pre-war period she took part as a delegate at the Jena party congress of the SPD in 1913 and at the Berlin home workers congress.

During the First World War Eichler was active in war relief. In 1917 she took part as a delegate at the Berlin Women's Congress.

In January 1919 Eichler was elected to the Weimar National Assembly, in which she represented constituency 36 (Thuringia) until the first Reichstag of the Weimar Republic met in June 1920. As a member of the National Assembly, in which women were allowed to hold political office for the first time in German history, she was one of the first group of women parliamentarians in Germany. She was also a member of the state parliament of Saxony-Altenburg from 1919 to 1920 .

On September 16, 1921, Eichler entered the Reichstag, elected in 1920, as a replacement for the resigned MP Paul Reisshaus , in which she represented constituency 13 (Thuringia) until the election in May 1924. During her time in the Reichstag, Eichler moved in February 1924 from the SPD to the Communist Party of Germany (KPD), whose parliamentary group she also joined for the short remaining parliamentary term. Afterwards she was no longer politically active.

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  1. ↑ Antje Huber: Does the nightingale deserve praise when it sings? The Social Democrats , 1984, p. 259.
  2. ↑ Christl Wickert : Our Chosen , 1986, p. 42.
  3. ^ Ernst Rudolf Huber: German Constitutional History since 1789 , 1984, p. 238.
  4. ^ Hermann Weber, Andreas Herbst: German Communists. Biographisches Handbuch 1918 to 1945. Dietz, Berlin 2004, ISBN 3-320-02044-7 , p. 177.
personal data
SURNAME Eichler, Wilhelmine
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (SPD, KPD), MdR
DATE OF BIRTH April 5, 1872
PLACE OF BIRTH Queienfeld
DATE OF DEATH November 27, 1937
Place of death Leipzig