Elisabeth Meyer-Spreckels

Elisabeth Meyer-Spreckels (born Elisabeth Hahn on 29 October 1890 in Dresden; died 25 May 1974 in Fürth) was a German politician of the CSU.

Life and career Elisabeth Spreckels was the granddaughter of Peter Spreckels, the brother and business partner of the German-American industrialist and so-called "Sugar King" of California Claus Spreckels, who had returned to Germany in 1885 and settled with his family in Dresden. Her brother, Walter P. Spreckels, later became an executive in one of the Spreckels family's sugar companies in the USA.

After graduating from high school, Meyer-Spreckels began studying chemistry, physics, and mathematics in Dresden and Erlangen. She later continued her studies at Bryn Mawr College, where she also completed her merit scholarship. In 1915, she passed her state examination in food chemistry, and shortly afterwards received her doctorate in Erlangen. She was then employed as an assistant at the Chemical Institute of the Dresden Technical University, and later worked at the Dresden Municipal Research Institute. In 1918, she was appointed lecturer at the Chemical Institute of the University of Halle. In 1947, she participated in the founding of the State Women's Working Group within the CSU, and the following year she became deputy chairwoman of the CDU/CSU Women's Working Group.

In 1946, she initially served on the Advisory State Committee, the so-called Preparatory Parliament, and was also a member of the political advisory board of the Bavarian State Ministry for Special Affairs. Shortly afterwards, she was a member of the first post-war Bavarian Constituent Assembly and, as a deputy member of the Constitutional Committee, participated in the drafting of the Bavarian State Constitution,

Honors 1961: Federal Cross of Merit 1972: Golden Citizen's Medal of the City of Fürth 2002: Naming of Dr.-Meyer-Spreckels-Straße in Fürth