Franziska Blatny (22 March 1873 – 22 December 1949) was a Czechoslovakian politician. In 1920 she was elected to the Chamber of Deputies, becoming one of the first group of female parliamentarians in the country.
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| Member of the Chamber of Deputies | |
| In office 1920–1935 | |
| Constituency | VII Karlovy Vary |
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| Born | 22 March 1873 Udritsch, Austria-Hungary |
| Died | 22 December 1949 (aged 76) London, United Kingdom |
Biography edit
Blatny was born Franziska Feldmann-Fischer in Udritsch, Austria-Hungary (now Údrč, part of Bochov in the Czech Republic), Austria-Hungary in 1873.[1] After her mother died, she and her father moved to Karlovy Vary. She joined the Social Democratic Workers' Party of Austria in 1901,[2] and married Leopold Blatny, a trade unionist, in 1912. The couple moved to Vienna, but he died four years later and she returned to Karlovy Vary.
Following the formation of Czechoslovakia, she became a member of the German Social Democratic Workers' Party and was a candidate for the party in the 1920 parliamentary elections, in which she was elected to the Chamber of Deputies. She was also elected to the city council of Karlovy Vary.[1] She was re-elected in 1925 and 1929, serving until the 1935 elections. She remained on Karlovy Vary city council until 1938.[1]
She emigrated to the United Kingdom in 1939.[3] Following World War II she ignored requests from Edvard Beneš to return home,[1] and died in London in 1949.
References edit
- ^ a b c d Werner Röder, Herbert A. Strauss, Dieter Marc Schneider & Louise Forsyth (2011) Politik, Wirtschaft, Öffentliches Leben p68
- ^ Mads Olle Balling (1991) Von Reval bis Bukarest: Einleitung, Systematik, Quellen und Methoden, Estland, Lettland, Litauen, Polen, Tschechoslowakei, p336
- ^ Sozialistische Mitteilungen Bibliothek der Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung
External links edit
- Fanny Blatny Parliament of the Czech Republic