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Maria Blum
Maria Blum (born Maria Holl: 27 October 1890 - 11 May 1965) was a Weimar Germany, German politician (Communist Party of Germany, KPD). Between November 1932 and February/March 1933 she sat as a member of Reichstag (Weimar Republic), the national parliament (''Reichstag''), representing Electoral District 12 (Thüringia). Life Maria Holl was born at Schwabmünchen, a small town in the hills south of Augsburg. Slightly unusually for the time, according to her later entry in the official handbook of Reichgstag members, the family were not members of the church. They worked from home, making brooms and brushes. She attended school locally and then took a series of jobs locally, including work as an embroidery trainer and as a maid-servant on a farm. Next she moved to Munich where she took a job as a sales assistant. It was in Berlin that she got to know Jakob Blum, an active member of the Social Democratic Party of Germany, Social Democratic Party (SPD) whom she subsequently married ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Reichstag (Weimar Republic)
The Reichstag of the Weimar Republic (1919–1933) was the lower house of Germany's parliament; the upper house was the Reichsrat, which represented the states. The Reichstag convened for the first time on 24 June 1920, taking over from the Weimar National Assembly, which had served as an interim parliament following the collapse of the German Empire in November 1918. Under the Weimar Constitution of 1919, the Reichstag was elected every four years by universal, equal, secret and direct suffrage, using a system of party-list proportional representation. All citizens who had reached the age of 20 were allowed to vote, including women for the first time, but excluding soldiers on active duty. The Reichstag voted on the laws of the Reich and was responsible for the budget, questions of war and peace, and confirmation of state treaties. Oversight of the Reich government (the ministers responsible for executing the laws) also resided with the Reichstag. It could force individual mi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
