Barbara Schack ( cs, Barbora Schacková; 20 September 1874 – 27 October 1958) was a

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politician who served in the from 1933 until 1935. A member of the German Social Democratic Workers' Party, she led the women's wing of the party for the entire

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Biography

Barbara Schack was born on 20 September 1874 in Cheb in

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, then part of Austria-Hungary. A

, Schack's public career began in 1895 when she co-founded the Women's Workers' Education Association in Cheb and Kraslice. She later became a prominent member German Social Democratic Workers' Party (DSAP) in the far-western portion of Czechoslovakia. From 1918 until 1938, she chaired the party's women's wing, and at some point was a member of the Cheb town council. In the

1929 Czechoslovak parliamentary election Parliamentary elections were held in Czechoslovakia on 27 October 1929.Dieter Nohlen & Philip Stöver (2010) ''Elections in Europe: A data handbook'', p471 The Republican Party of Farmers and Peasants, emerged as the largest party, winning 46 se ...

, Schack was elected to the as the substitute for Anton Jarolim. She was one of two female DSAP senators elected in the

, alongside Anna Perthen. Jarolim died in office and Schack was sworn-in to replace him on 26 May 1933. During her tenure, she gave two recorded speeches; occurring in 1933 and 1934, both speeches were about the Budget and Finance Acts for the following years. Schack left office at the end of her term in 1935. Following the German annexation of the

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in 1938, Schack was arrested by the Nazi regime and imprisoned for five months. In 1946following the end of World War II – she was deported to Germany, settling in the town of

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in Bavaria. Schack died in Moosburg on 27 October 1958. Her husband was Josef Engelbert Schack, a shoe upper manufacturer who died in the 1950s. Their son Emil Schack was a musician who joined the ''

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'' in 1942, becoming the leader of a musician platoon.

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