Zelma Cēsniece-Freidenfelde (17 February 1892 – 22 December 1929) was a

Latvia Latvia ( or ; lv, Latvija ; ltg, Latveja; liv, Leţmō), officially the Republic of Latvia ( lv, Latvijas Republika, links=no, ltg, Latvejas Republika, links=no, liv, Leţmō Vabāmō, links=no), is a country in the Baltic region of ...

n physician and politician. In 1920 she was one of the six women elected to the

Constitutional Assembly A constituent assembly (also known as a constitutional convention, constitutional congress, or constitutional assembly) is a body assembled for the purpose of drafting or revising a constitution. Members of a constituent assembly may be elected b ...

, Latvia's first female parliamentarians.

Biography

Cēsniece-Freidenfelde was born in Zaļenieki Parish (now Jelgava Municipality) in the

Courland Governorate The Courland Governorate, also known as the Province of Courland, Governorate of Kurland (german: Kurländisches Gouvernement; russian: Курля́ндская губерния, translit=Kurljándskaja gubernija; lv, Kurzemes guberņa; lt, K ...

in 1892 to Jānis Cēsnieks and Anna Ozola and qualified as a physician.Sanita Osipova (2019
The Political Platform of the Latvian People’s Council of 17 November 1918 as the Founder of the Gender Equality Tradition in Latvia Within the Discourse of European Ideas on Gender Equality
''Juridiskā zinātne'', pp96–109 She was a founder member of the National Centre, which contested the 1920 Constitutional Assembly elections as part of the Group of Non-Partisan Citizens. Cēsniece-Freidenfelde was one of the members elected, serving in the Assembly until 1922. She was part of the central committee of the National Centre from 1921 until 1926. In 1922 she became the first head of the Latvian Women's National League.Pirmais ievērojamo latviešu sieviešu «tops»
Apollo, 11 March 2007 She died in December 1929.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Cēsniece-Freidenfelde, Zelma 1892 births 1929 deaths People from Jelgava Municipality People from Courland Governorate National Union (Latvia) politicians Deputies of the Constitutional Assembly of Latvia 20th-century Latvian women politicians Latvian physicians Latvian women physicians 20th-century Latvian physicians