Gertrud Hanna

Gertrud Hanna (1876–1944) was a German activist and politician. She was a member of the Social Democratic Party (SPD) and represented it at the Landtag of Prussia. She also assumed various positions in different organizations. Following the Nazi rule in Germany she was dismissed from all of her posts and committed suicide in 1944. She described herself and other colleagues as follows: "We are in the first place Party members, secondly unionists, and finally, if at all feminists."

Biography

Hanna was born in Berlin on 22 August 1876 into a working class family and had two sisters. She joined a union of unskilled workers and became secretary of the Berlin workers' committee in 1907.