Franziska Blatny (22 March 1873 – 22 December 1949) was a

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n politician. In 1920 she was elected to the

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, 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

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in the

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), Austria-Hungary in 1873. After her mother died, she and her father moved to

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. She joined the

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in 1901,Mads Olle Balling (1991) ''Von Reval bis Bukarest: Einleitung, Systematik, Quellen und Methoden, Estland, Lettland, Litauen, Polen, Tschechoslowakei'', p336 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

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, she became a member of the German Social Democratic Workers' Party and was a candidate for the party in the 1920 parliamentary elections, in which she was elected to the Chamber of Deputies. She was also elected to the city council of Karlovy Vary. She was re-elected in

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and

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, serving until the 1935 elections. She remained on Karlovy Vary city council until 1938. She emigrated to the United Kingdom in 1939.Sozialistische Mitteilungen
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to return home,Werner Röder, Herbert A. Strauss, Dieter Marc Schneider & Louise Forsyth (2011
''Politik, Wirtschaft, Öffentliches Leben''
p68 and died in London in 1949.

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