Anna Malá Explained

Office1:Member of the Chamber of Deputies
Term1:1920–1925
Birth Date:22 March 1873
Birth Place:Nimburg, Austria-Hungary
Death Place:Prague, Czechoslovakia

Anna Malá (17 May 1886 – 19 April 1948) was a Czechoslovakian politician. In 1920 she was one of the first groups of women elected to the Chamber of Deputies.

Biography

Malá was born in Nimburg in Austria-Hungary in 1886. Prior to entering politics, she was a civil servant in Vinohrady district of Prague.[1]

She was a Czechoslovak Social Democratic Workers' Party candidate in the 1920 parliamentary elections and was one of sixteen women elected to parliament.[2] After the party split in 1921, she joined to the newly formed Communist Party of Czechoslovakia.[2] [3]

After leaving parliament in 1925, she returned to working as a clerk and also contributed articles to Rudé právo, the Communist Party's newspaper.[2] She died in Prague in 1948.[2]

Notes and References

  1. http://www.psp.cz/eknih/1920ns/ps/stenprot/001schuz/s001001.htm 1. schůze, přípis volebního soudu, ověření mandátů
  2. Aleš Ziegler (2011) Úloha ţen v prvních československých parlamentních volbách roku 1920, pp85, 91, 101
  3. http://www.psp.cz/eknih/1920ns/ps/rejstrik/jmenny/MA.HTM jmenný rejstřík