Johanna Tesch

Johanna Tesch
Johanna Tesch 1910
Born
Johanna Friederike Carillon

24 March 1875
Died13 March 1945 (1945-03-14) (aged 69)
OccupationTrades Union activist & Politician
Political partySPD
SpouseRichard Tesch
Children3

Johanna Friederike Tesch (born Carillon, 24 March 1875 – 13 March 1945) was a leading German Social Democratic Party politician, most active on the national stage during the 1920s.[1]

After 1933, as Germany became a one party dictatorship, she and her husband Richard stayed in the country. She died in Ravensbrück concentration camp.[2]

  1. ^ Adriane von Hoop (2000). "Johanna Tesch (Johanna Friederike Carillon [Geburtsname])". Prof. Dr. Luise F. Pusch iA Institut für Frauen-Biographieforschung ("Fem Bio"). Retrieved 19 November 2015.
  2. ^ Dagmar Eckhardt (10 June 2009). "Johanna Tesch". Frankfurter Neue Presse (Rhein-Main.Net GmbH). Retrieved 19 November 2015.