Božena Ecksteinová

Božena Ecksteinová-Hniličková (7 March 1871 – 22 May 1930) was a Czechoslovak politician. In 1920, she was one of the first group of women elected to the Senate, remaining in parliament until 1929.

Biography Ecksteinová was born into a working-class family in Smíchov (now a district of Prague) in 1871. When the party split in the early 1920s, she took over its daily newspaper. She was re-elected in 1925, serving until 1929 when she left politics due to illness. She died in Prague the following year.