Luise Kähler

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Luise Kähler
Luise Kähler at the 1950 Socialist Unity Party of Germany Convention
Born	Luise Girnth (1869-01-12)12 January 1869 Berlin, Kingdom of Prussia
Died	22 September 1955(1955-09-22) (aged 86) Berlin
Nationality	Prussian German East German
Occupation(s)	Trade unionist and politician

Luise Kähler (12 January 1869 – 22 September 1955) was a German socialist, trade union leader and politician. She was one of a small number of women union officials that held a prominent position within Germany's trade unions in the first half of the 20th century. She was a member of the

Early life

Luise Girnth was born in Berlin in the Kingdom of Prussia in 1869. She was the daughter of a hackney cab driver with origins in Silesia and received little formal education beyond primary school. She entered service as a domestic servant in Berlin in 1883.^[1] In 1888, she was apprenticed as a tailor before moving to Hamburg to work as a seamstress around 1893. She worked on a German merchant ship out of Hamburg, for two years from 1893 to 1895. Upon her return to Hamburg, she married the painter August Kähler.

Activist

Kähler joined the Social Democratic Party of Germany in 1902 and increasingly became more political active and astute. In November 1906, she became the co-founder and first chairwoman of an embryonic union for women working in domestic trades in Hamburg by representing her members against exploitation by private employers and agencies. The union quickly grew in membership. Within a year, it had 480 members, which necessitated affiliation to the national body by 1907. Kähler was appointed as de facto branch secretary of the Hamburg branch in 1909 serving in that capacity until 1913. She was one of a small number of women union officials that included Wilhelmine Kähler (no relation) and Emma Ihrer and after Ihrer's death arguably became the most notable one of the time.

In 1913, she became the president of the

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Translator's note: These references are in German and contain further biographical information

• Biography by Wilhelm Heinz Schröder, in Biographisches Lexikon der ÖTV und ihrer Vorläuferorganisationen
• Meyers Neues Lexikon in 8 Bänden, Band 4, Seite 603; VEB Bibliographisches Institut Leipzig, 1962