Elise Ekke

Elise Ekke (14 October 1877 – 3 December 1957) was a German 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 the following year.

Biography Ekke was born in Krotoschin in 1877. She was educated at the Luisenschule and then attended a teaching seminary in Posen. In 1899 she attended Friedrich Wilhelms University as a guest student, later attending the Academy in Posen. Between 1900 and 1905 she taught at a primary school, and from 1905 at a middle school in Posen. where she died in 1957.