Agnes Neuhaus

Agnes Neuhaus (24 March 1854 – 20 November 1944) was a German social worker and politician. In 1919 she was one of the 36 women elected to the Weimar National Assembly, the first female parliamentarians in Germany. She remained a member of parliament until 1930.

Biography Neuhaus was born Agnes Morsbach in Dortmund in 1854, the daughter of the physician Franz Morsbach and his wife Florentine (née Riesberg). Her father later became a city councillor in Dortmund and chaired the local physician's association and the Arnsberg district medical association. Her mother was a well-known French teacher, but stopped teaching after the birth of her third child. She headed a Catholic women's organisation, chaired the municipal childcare association and organised Sunday classes to train kindergarten teachers. Agnes attended Volksschule and Lyceum in Dortmund, before becoming a pupil at a boarding school in Haselünne between 1866 and 1869 and then in Carignan in France from 1869 to 1870. From 1925 onwards she was also a member of the party's national board.

In 1943 she moved from Dortmund to Cappenberg and later to Soest, where she died the following year.