Fanny Blatny

Fanni Blatny (22 March 1873 – 22 December 1949) was a Czechoslovak politician. In 1920 she was elected to the Chamber of Deputies of Czechoslovakia, becoming one of the first group of female parliamentarians in the country.

Biography Blatny was born Franziska Feldmann-Fischer in Udritsch, Bohemia, Austria-Hungary (now Údrč, part of Bochov in the Czech Republic) in 1873. and married Leopold Blatny, a trade unionist, in 1912. The couple moved to Vienna, but he died four years later and she returned to Karlovy Vary.

Following the formation of Czechoslovakia, she became a member of the German Social Democratic Workers' Party and was a candidate for the party in the 1920 parliamentary elections, in which she was elected to the Chamber of Deputies. She was also elected to the city council of Karlovy Vary. Following World War II she ignored requests from Edvard Beneš to return home, and died in London in 1949.