Wilhelmine Kähler

Wilhelmine Kähler born Mohs ( born April 3, 1864 in Kellinghusenstraße, † February 22, 1941 in Bonn) was a German trade unionist and politician of the SPD.

Life and career

After completing elementary school in 1878 graduated Kellinghusenstraße Kähler, which originally belonged to the Lutheran Church, but later left this, a lesson to the dressmaker. After she worked as a housekeeper at Detlev von Liliencron, Kähler later earned her living as a political writer. After her marriage with a cigar worker, she moved in 1882 to Ottensen and a few years later to Wandsbek. 1900 she moved to Dresden, where her husband worked as an independent producer of cigars. After the death of her husband in 1905 she moved to Dusseldorf in 1910 to Berlin. As of October 1919, she served as advisor in the Ministry of Economic Affairs for the Notfürsorge the miners. After her marriage to William rhyme, an employee of the SPD parliamentary group, the couple moved in 1924 in Kahler's birthplace Kellinghusenstraße. There, she led from 1927 to 1932, the local home of the workers' welfare. After her retirement, she went with her husband in 1932 to Bonn.

Union work

Wilhelmine Kähler founded in 1890 the factory and domestic workers association whose president she was. The dressing she led in 1892 to the Association of factory, land and unskilled workers and workers inside. The General Commission of the unions they belonged, as successor Emma Ihrers, 1892-1899. She argued primarily that all trade unions and women opened what was often so far not been the case. She was editor of the correspondence for our women. When Ida Baar resigned the chairmanship of the Association of Domestic Workers in Germany in July 1913 Kähler briefly became her successor. But in October, she moved to the post of ( full-time ) deputy chairman, who was also connected to the office of the editor of the association member. When the financially troubled domestic workers association in 1923 joined to the German Confederation traffic, Kähler withdrew from the union work.

Party

Kähler joined the late 1880s, the SPD. She was "Female trusted person " for the 8th and the 10th of Schleswig- Holstein parliament constituency and from November 1900 to 1902 for the three Dresden constituencies. She was also the author of the SPD women's magazine equality. In 1907 she participated in Stuttgart at the International Socialist Congress. Kähler in 1916 editor of the Social Democratic item correspondence.

Member of Parliament

Kähler was 1919/20, at the Weimar National Assembly. Subsequently, she was member of parliament in 1921 until the election of the East Prussian deputies in February. Coinciding with the departure from the Reichstag was member of parliament in Prussia.

At the meeting of the National Assembly on 17 July 1919, she was in favor of a centralization of childcare at the Reich. Private and denominational child care facilities should be abolished.