Anna Reitler

Anna Reitler (born Anna Schnitzler: 3 June 1894 - 23 June 1948) was a German politician (KPD).

Life Anna Schnitzler was born into a working-class family in Liblar (now part of Erftstadt), a small town to the southwest of Cologne, in the Prussian Rhine Province. She attended junior school locally after which she went into domestic service. At some stage she moved to the city, Cologne, and it was here that she married. 1924 was a crisis year, marked by economic collapse, destitution and two general elections, but Anna Reitler was not re-elected in the December election of that year. She subsequently played no further part in politics, even after 1945.

Anna Reitler died in Markkleeberg (on the southern edge of Leipzig) on 23 June 1948.