Julie Salinger, née Braun (31 July 1863 – 16 September 1942) was a German liberal politician and one of the first female members of the parliament of

Saxony Saxony, officially the Free State of Saxony, is a landlocked state of Germany, bordering the states of Brandenburg, Saxony-Anhalt, Thuringia, and Bavaria, as well as the countries of Poland and the Czech Republic. Its capital is Dresden, and ...

Biography

Salinger was born Julie Braun in Ortelsburg,

East Prussia East Prussia was a Provinces of Prussia, province of the Kingdom of Prussia from 1772 to 1829 and again from 1878 (with the Kingdom itself being part of the German Empire from 1871); following World War I it formed part of the Weimar Republic's ...

(Szczytno). She married Julius Israel Salinger, a lawyer (1855–1921), in 1886, and her son Paul was born in 1887. About 1897 the family moved to

Dresden Dresden (; ; Upper Saxon German, Upper Saxon: ''Dräsdn''; , ) is the capital city of the States of Germany, German state of Saxony and its second most populous city after Leipzig. It is the List of cities in Germany by population, 12th most p ...

where Salinger started to engage in the Jewish community and the local women's movement.Lutz Vogel (2007): �
Parlamentsarbeit einer „Novizin“
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World War I World War I or the First World War (28 July 1914 – 11 November 1918), also known as the Great War, was a World war, global conflict between two coalitions: the Allies of World War I, Allies (or Entente) and the Central Powers. Fighting to ...

Salinger worked in the Central Committee for the wartime organization of Dresden associations (Zentralausschuss der Kriegsorganisation Dresdner Vereine), which organized public social aid in Dresden. In 1918 she was a co-founding member of the

German Democratic Party The German Democratic Party (, DDP) was a liberal political party in the Weimar Republic, considered centrist or centre-left. Along with the right-liberal German People's Party (, DVP), it represented political liberalism in Germany between 19 ...

(DDP) in Dresden and was elected as one out of three female members of the constitutional assembly of the

Free State of Saxony Saxony, officially the Free State of Saxony, is a landlocked state of Germany, bordering the states of Brandenburg, Saxony-Anhalt, Thuringia, and Bavaria, as well as the countries of Poland and the Czech Republic. Its capital is Dresden, and ...

on 2 February 1919. Salinger became a member of the Saxon parliament upon the elections of 14 November 1920 until the legislative period ended in 1922. Salinger remained an active member of the

Bund Deutscher Frauenvereine The Bund Deutscher Frauenvereine (Federation of German Women's Associations) (BDF) was founded on 28/29 March 1894 as umbrella organization of the women's civil rights feminist movement and existed until the Nazi Seizure of Power, Nazi seizure of po ...

in the 1920s. In 1940 she was forced to move into a Judenhaus in Dresden from where she was deported to

Theresienstadt Ghetto Theresienstadt Ghetto was established by the SS during World War II in the fortress town of Terezín, in the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia ( German-occupied Czechoslovakia). Theresienstadt served as a waystation to the extermination c ...

on 25 August 1942. Salinger died in Theresienstadt on 16 September 1942.

Remembrance

Since 2012 a

Stolperstein A (; plural ) is a concrete cube bearing a brass plate inscribed with the name and life dates of victims of Nazi extermination or persecution. Literal translation, Literally, it means 'stumbling stone' and metaphorically 'stumbling block'. ...

remembers Salinger in front of her former residence at Bayreuther Straße 14, Dresden. A street in Dresdner Neustadt is named in her honour.

References

External links

Theresienstadt death certificate
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