Anna Blos
{{Short description|German educator and politician}}
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| office2 = Member of the Weimar National Assembly
| term2 = 1919–1920
| birth_date = 4 August 1866
| birth_place = Liegnitz, Prussia
| death_date = {{death date and age|1933|4|27|1866|8|4|df=y}}
| death_place = Stuttgart, Germany
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Anna Berta Antonia Blos (4 August 1866 – 27 April 1933) was a German educator and politician. In 1919 she was one of the 36 women elected to the Weimar National Assembly, the first female parliamentarians in Germany.
Biography
Blos was born Anna Berta Antonia Tomaczewska in Liegnitz in Prussia in 1866. She was educated at the Prince Wilhelm Foundation in Karlsruhe and then attended the University of Berlin, where she studied history, literature and languages. She subsequently became a teacher and the first woman in Germany to become a member of a local school board.[http://www.landtagswahl-bw.de/4906.html?&MP=1174-9454 Anna Blos (1866-1933)] Landtagswahl
She founded and became chairwoman of the Association of Stuttgart Housewives and was an executive member of the Württemberg Association for Women's Voting Rights. In 1905 she married Wilhelm Blos, who later became president of the state of Württemberg. After joining the Social Democratic Party of Germany, she became a member of the regional executive board.[https://www.reichstag-abgeordnetendatenbank.de/select.html?pnd=124316506 Blos, Anna] Datenbank der deutschen Parlamentsabgeordneten She was a candidate for the party in the 1919 federal elections, becoming one of the first group of women elected to the Weimar National Assembly.
She died in Stuttgart in 1933 and was buried in the Prague cemetery.[https://www.proaltcannstatt.de/bad-cannstatt/historischer-pfad/anna-blos-und-wilhelm-blos 89 :: Anna Blos und Wilhelm Blos (1866-1933 und 1849-1927)] Pro Alt-Cannstatt
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Category:Humboldt University of Berlin alumni
Category:German schoolteachers
Category:Social Democratic Party of Germany politicians