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Elisabeth Zillken
Elisabeth Zillken (born 8 July 1888 in Wallerfangen; died 28 November 1980 in Dortmund) was a German politician. From 1919 to 1933 and again between 1945 and 1966, Zillken was a member of the Dortmund city council. From 1930 to 1933 she sat as a Centre Party (Germany), Centre Party member of the Reichstag (Weimar Republic), Reichstag (German national parliament). In October 1946 she was appointed a member of the :de:Ernannter Landtag (Nordrhein-Westfalen), (at this stage still nominated rather than elected) state parliament of North Rhine-Westphalia, serving for two consecutive terms, till April 1947. Life Provenance and early years Elisabeth Zillken was born at Wallerfangen, a small town to the north of Saarlouis, the eldest of the five children of Anna and Engelbert Zillken. After graduating from secondary school in Saarlouis she undertook a two year internship with a jewelry business in Mainz. She then embarked on a training at a private business school in Cologne, from whic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dortmund
Dortmund (; ; ) is the third-largest city in North Rhine-Westphalia, after Cologne and Düsseldorf, and the List of cities in Germany by population, ninth-largest city in Germany. With a population of 614,495 inhabitants, it is the largest city (by area and population) of the Ruhr as well as the largest city of Westphalia. It lies on the Emscher and Ruhr (river), Ruhr rivers (tributaries of the Rhine) in the Rhine-Ruhr, Rhine-Ruhr Metropolitan Region, the List of EU metropolitan regions by GDP#2021 ranking of top four German metropolitan regions, second biggest metropolitan region by GDP in the European Union, and is considered the administrative, commercial, and cultural centre of the eastern Ruhr. Dortmund is the second-largest city in the Low German dialect area, after Hamburg. Founded around 882,:File:Boevinghausen erwaehnung.jpg, Wikimedia Commons: First documentary reference to Dortmund-Bövinghausen from 882, contribution-list of the Werden Abbey (near Essen), North-Rhine ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
