Born in Landsberg an der Warthe, Germany 1879, died in Bonn 1956; member of the Verein der Frauen und Mädchen der arbeitenden Klasse, and in 1908 of the Sozialdemokratische Partei Deutschlands (SPD); delegate to the National Women's Congresses; in 1913 woman secretary of the SPD branch in Cologne, from 1917 in Berlin; editor of Gleichheit 1917-1919; member of the Executive of the SPD 1917-1933; member of the Reichstag 1920-1933; founded the social democratic welfare organization Arbeiterwohlfahrt in 1919; emigrated in 1935 to Mulhouse; fled to Southern France in 1939 and emigrated to New York in 1941; member of the German-American Council for the Liberation of Germany from Nazism; member of the Council for a Democratic Germany; active in the Jewish Labor Committee and the Arbeiterwohlfahrt USA-Hilfe für die Opfer des Nationalsozialismus; returned to Germany in 1949.
From the description of Archives 1928-1931. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 83770279
