Julie Salinger

Julie Salinger, née Braun (31 July 1863 – 16 September 1942) was a German liberal politician and one of the first female members of the parliament of Saxony.

Biography

Salinger was born Julie Braun in Ortelsburg, East Prussia (Szczytno). She married Julius Israel Salinger, a lawyer (1855–1921), in 1886, and her son Paul was born in 1887. About 1897 the family moved to Dresden, Saxony where Salinger started to engage in the Jewish community and the local women's movement.

Throughout World War I Salinger worked in the Central Committee for the wartime organization of Dresden associations (Zentralausschuss der Kriegsorganisation Dresdner Vereine), which organized public social aid in Dresden. In 1918 she was a co-founding member of the German Democratic Party (DDP) in Dresden and was elected as one out of three female members of the constitutional assembly of the Free State of Saxony on 2 February 1919.