Anna Perthen

Anna Perthen (22 December 1866 – 11 December 1957) was a Czechoslovak politician. In 1920 she was one of the first group of women elected to the Senate, remaining in parliament until 1925.

Biography Perthen was born Anna Nickel in Jílové in Bohemia, Austrian Empire (today in the Czech Republic) in 1866. and continued to work there until she married. She became involved with the Social Democratic Workers' Party of Austria, chairing the Imperial Women's Social Democratic Committee and becoming a member of Bodenbach municipal council. She remained in parliament until 1925. After World War II she was deported to Germany, where she settled in the Soviet occupation zone, later East Germany. She died in Magdala in 1957.