Gertrud Lodahl

Gertrud Lodahl (28 January 1878 – 17 March 1930) was a German newspaper and magazine editor and politician. In 1919 she became a member of the Weimar National Assembly, remaining a member of parliament until the following year.

Gertrud Lodahl
Member of the Weimar National Assembly
In office
1919–1920
ConstituencyPosen
Personal details
Born28 January 1878
Berlin, Germany
Died17 March 1930(1930-03-17) (aged 52)

Biography

Lodahl was born into a working-class family in Berlin in 1878. After leaving school she worked as a nanny and then in the book printing industry.[1] She joined a trade union and the Social Democratic Party (SPD) around 1895. In 1895 she also became a member of the board of directors of the Berlin Book Printing Association and subsequently edited newspapers and magazines for the SPD, trade unions and cooperatives. During World War I she sat on the advisory board of the War Food Office and was involved with the Price Inspection Office.[1]

Although she was not elected to the Weimar National Assembly in the January 1919 elections, she entered the Assembly in February 1919 as a replacement for Paul Stössel and remained a member until the 1920 Reichstag elections.[2][3] She died in 1930.

References
  1. Lodahl, Gertrud Verhandlungen des Deutschen Reichstags
  2. Walter S. G. Kohn (1980) Women in National Legislatures: A Comparative Study of Six Countries, p141
  3. Die ersten Politikerinnen der Weimarer Nationalversammlung Frauenwahllokal
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