Emmy Stradal
{{Short description|Austrian politician (1877–1925)}}
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| office = Member of the Parliament
| term_start = 1920
| term_end = 1923
| birth_name = Emilie Maria Sofie Ecker
| birth_date = {{birth date|1877|10|28|df=y}}
| birth_place = Wolkersdorf, Cisleithania
| death_date = {{death year and age|1925|1877}}
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| party = German People's Party
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Emmy Stradal (née Ecker; 1877–1925) was an Austrian housewife-turned-politician and a feminist. Being a member of the German People's Party she served at the Parliament. She was among the early supporters of girls' education in Austria.
Biography
She was born Emilie Maria Sofie Ecker in Wolkersdorf on 28 October 1877. Her father Michael Ecker was a notary in Stockerau, and through her mother, Adele Ecker, she was related to the Moravian journalist Emil Pindter. She attended elementary and public schools in Stockerau. On 11 August 1896, at the age of only nineteen, she married Adalbert Stradal, who was sixteen years her senior and came from a German-Bohemian family. They had four children: Hedwig, Hermann, Albert and Otto.
Stradal was part of the middle-class women's movement.{{cite book|editor=Juliane Mikoletzky|title=Art and Culture around the TU Wien
|location=Vienna|publisher=Böhlau Verlag Wien|year=2016|isbn=978-3-205-20114-4|language=de|page=110|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=gTpKDAAAQBAJ&pg=PA110|chapter=University extension|author=Juliane Mikoletzky}} She joined the People’s Party at the early period of the First Austrian Republic and represented the party at the Parliament between 1920 and 1923.{{cite journal|author=Johanna Gehmacher|title=Die großdeutsche Politikerin Emmy Stradal (1877–1925) Biografische Fragmente, politische Kontexte |journal=Austrian Journal of Historical Studies|year=2015|volume=26|issue=2|language=de|doi=10.25365/oezg-2015-26-2-6}} She contributed to the efforts of Therese Schlesinger in relation to female students' access to boys’ high schools and higher education.{{cite book
|author=Gabriella Hauch|editor1=Günter Bischof|editor2=Fritz Plasser|editor3=Eva Maltschnig|title=Austrian Lives|year=2012|isbn=9781608010929
|publisher=University of New Orleans Press|location=New Orleans, LA|page=81|chapter-url=http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/33886
|volume=21|chapter=“Against the Mock Battle of Words”—Therese Schlesinger, née Eckstein (1863-1940), a Radical Seeker}} Stradal also argued that women’s secondary schools should be established and that private girls’ schools should be made public schools.{{cite thesis|author=Megan Marie Brandow-Faller|title=An art of their own: reinventing" Frauenkunst" in the female academies and artist leagues of late-imperial and first republic Austria, 1900-1930|url=https://repository.library.georgetown.edu/handle/10822/553120|location=Georgetown University|page=89|degree=PhD|date=April 2010|hdl=10822/553120}} Her first proposal was legalized with a ministerial decree dated 30 July 1921. She died in 1925.
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Category:20th-century Austrian women politicians
Category:Austrian women activists
Category:Austrian women's rights activists
Category:German People's Party politicians
Category:Members of the 1st National Council (Austria)
Category:Members of the 2nd National Council (Austria)