Luise Kähler

Luise Kähler ( born Girnth; born January 12, 1869 in Berlin, † September 22, 1955 ibid ) was a German women's rights activist, leading trade unionist and social democratic politician.

Kähler was in 1883 maid, later she made a dressmaker, worked as a seamstress and as a ship stewardess on the East Route. In 1895 she married a craftsman, was a homemaker and worked as a seamstress in Hamburg again.

In 1902 Kähler joined the SPD. Between 1906 and 1913 she was the founder and chairman of the Association of servants, wash and scrub women in Hamburg. In 1907, she was instrumental in the establishment of a working proof to protect the maids from exploitation by private employment agencies. The maid club was admitted to the union cartel Hamburg in 1907. In the same year she was involved in the founding of a nationwide domestic workers organization. After connecting to the association of domestic workers in 1909 she took over the management of the Hamburg branch.

Between 1908 and 1913, Kähler has been, at times chosen as the only woman to the board of the Hamburg trade union cartel. Your livelihood they earned in 1909 as a salaried laborer of the evidence points to domestic workers in Hamburg. She was also active in the consumer co-operatives, worked for the "Hamburger Echo" and campaigned for the SPD.

From 1913 to 1923 Kähler was Chairman of the Main Board of the domestic workers ' association based in Berlin. During the First World War she fully endorsed the policy of free trade unions. She cared for as the war welfare of the Berlin workers ' movement and has organized the sick and Wöchnerinnenhilfe prevail. After the November Revolution Kähler was instrumental in the abolition of the feudal Gesindeordnung still strong. She was also a co-founder in 1918 of the workers' welfare.

Due to declining membership numbers of domestic workers association, the association joined to the traffic covenant here Kähler took over from 1923 to 1933, the delegate of the Head of the Section for domestic workers in the transport covenant, or in the general association of the workers employed by public enterprises. Besides Kähler was the only woman member of the Provisional National Economic Council. In 1927 she took part in Paris at the International Congress of Trade Unions.

Between 1919 and 1921, Kähler has been a member of the Constituent Prussian State Assembly. Subsequently, she was until 1932 a member of the Prussian Landtag. From 1920 to 1933 she was a member of the Provisional Reich Economic Council.

During the period of National Socialism, the apartment Kahler was a conspiratorial meeting of trade union resistance.

After 1945 Kähler was first again active in the SPD. Although she lived in West Berlin, she stepped over to the SED and ran for the Berlin House of Representatives as a top candidate for the district of Kreuzberg. In 1948 she was made an honorary member of the Democratic Women 's League of Germany. The SED awarded her the 1953 Karl -Marx- Orden.