Anna Sychravová Explained

Office1:Member of the Chamber of Deputies
Term1:1920–1925
Successor1:Jozef Pajger
Constituency1:XVII
Birth Date:7 July 1873
Birth Place:Humpolec, Austria-Hungary
Death Place:Prague, Czechoslovakia

Anna Sychravová (7 July 1873 – 22 February 1925) was a Czechoslovakian educator and politician. In 1920 she was elected to the Chamber of Deputies, becoming one of the first group of female members, and the only one elected from Slovakia.[1]

Biography

Sychravová was born to a clerical family in Humpolec in Austria-Hungary (now in the Czech Republic) in 1873.[2] She became a teacher, working in Prague and Žižkov, where she also worked for the youth services of the provincial and district authorities.[2] Following the independence of Czechoslovakia after World War I, she worked at the Ministry of Social Welfare for a year before moving to Vrútky, where she returned to teaching.[2]

She was a candidate of the Czechoslovakian Social Democratic Workers' Party in the 1920 parliamentary elections, and was elected to the Chamber of Deputies. During her term she sat on the Cultural Committee.[3] However, she died in February 1925 in Vinohrady hospital before her term in office was complete. Her seat was taken by Jozef Pajger.[3]

Notes and References

  1. Blanca Rodriguez Ruiz & Ruth Rubio-Marín (2012) The Struggle for Female Suffrage in Europe p237
  2. Aleš Ziegler (2011) Úloha žen v prvních československých parlamentních volbách roku 1920
  3. https://www.psp.cz/sqw/detail.sqw?org=295&id=4151 Anna Sychravová