Fanny Blatny
Fanny Blatny | |
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Member of the Chamber of Deputies | |
In office 1920–1935 | |
Constituency | VII Karlovy Vary |
Personal details | |
Born | 22 March 1873 Udritsch, Austria-Hungary |
Died | 22 December 1949 London, United Kingdom | (aged 76)
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.
Biography
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
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
- ^ 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
- Fanny Blatny Parliament of the Czech Republic