Irene Kirpal

Irene Kirpal (1 January 1886 – 17 December 1977) was a Czech politician. In 1920 she was one of the first group of women elected to the Chamber of Deputies of Czechoslovakia, remaining in parliament until 1938.

Biography Kirpal was born Irene Grundmann into a Jewish family in Hořice in Bohemia, Austria-Hungary (now in the Czech Republic) in 1886. Between 1902 and her marriage in 1912, she worked in education. She was subsequently re-elected in 1925, 1929 and 1935, serving in the Chamber of Deputies until the Nazi annexation of the Sudetenland in 1938. She subsequently lived in exile in the United Kingdom, returning to Czechoslovakia in 1946. She died in Ústí nad Labem in 1977.