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Adele Schreiber

1872-04-29 – 1957-02-20

Portrait of Adele Schreiber
A middle-aged white woman with white hair and dark eyes, wearing a dark print dress with a round necklineCredit: Harris & Ewing, Times Wide World Photos

Life & Legacy

Adele Georgina Schreiber-Krieger (29 April 1872 – 18 February 1957) was an Austrian-German politician, writer and feminist. An activist for the rights of women and children, she sat in the Reichstag of the Weimar Republic for a total of eight years under the Social Democratic Party of Germany. She fled the nascent Nazi Germany in 1933 and settled in the United Kingdom and later Switzerland, where she died.

Occupation & Career

politician, editor, resistance fighter, pedagogue, writer, journalist, social democrat

Education

Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin; London School of Economics and Political Science

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Education & Institutions

Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin · London School of Economics and Political Science

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Sources & Provenance

  1. Wikidata population candidate Q354498 — wikidata View source

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