Regine Deutsch

Regine Deutsch (born Regine Lion on 1 March 1860) was a German feminist activist, politician, author and translator.

Life Regine Lion was born in Berlin, the daughter of a banker, and had a conventional German-Jewish upbringing. Even before the First World War she was active in the women's movement, in which later she took on a leadership role.

After the war she joined the liberal German Democratic Party ("Deutsche Demokratische Partei" / DDP), and it was as a member of the DDP that she was elected to the Berlin City Parliament ("Berliner Stadtverordnetenversammlung"). and "Deutsche Kultur".

Following the Nazi take-over which took place at the beginning of 1933, political activism (except in support of the Nazi Party) became illegal, and it also became necessary for people pursuing careers as writers to be members of the Reich Chamber of Literature. Regine Deutsch was excluded from the Reich Chamber of Literature in 1935, almost certainly on account of her Jewish provenance. After this she disappears abruptly from the records, and her subsequent fate is unknown. An obituary for her was published in April 1939 indicating that she had died in 1938/39.