Anna Perthen (22 December 1866 – 11 December 1957) was a

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politician. In 1920 she was one of the first group of women elected to the

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, remaining in parliament until 1925.

Biography

Perthen was born Anna Nickel in

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(today in the

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) in 1866. She began working in a factory in Bodenbach at the age of 12, and continued to work there until she married. She became involved with the

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, chairing the Imperial Women's Social Democratic Committee and becoming a member of Bodenbach municipal council. Following the independence of

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at the end of

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, Perthen became a member of the German Social Democratic Workers' Party (DSAP) and chair of its women's committee. She was a DSAP candidate for the Senate in the 1920 parliamentary elections, and was one of sixteen women elected to parliament. She remained in parliament until

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. After

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she was deported to Germany, where she settled in the

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, later

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. She died in

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in 1957.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Perthen, Anna 1866 births 1957 deaths People from Děčín District Sudeten German people Social Democratic Party of Austria politicians Czechoslovak women in politics Members of the Senate of Czechoslovakia (1920–1925) German Social Democratic Workers' Party in the Czechoslovak Republic politicians People from Austria-Hungary