Wilhelmine Eichler

Wilhelmine Eichler (5 April 1872 – 27 November 1937) was a German politician (SPD, KPD). At the adoption by Germany of a democratic constitution in 1920, Eichler was one of the 37 female members of what became the national parliament (Reichstag). She became a member of the still overwhelmingly male Reichstag itself in September 1921. As a young woman she began to engage with the Social Democratic Party (Sozialdemokratische Partei Deutschlands / SPD), which at this stage was still considered by members of the establishment to be outside the political mainstream. In 1906 she joined the party executive of her local party branch. and participated in various regional assemblies and congresses and national party conferences. She represented Registration District 36 (Thuringia). Her final four months in the chamber were therefore spent as a Communist member.

After May 1924 Wilhelmine appears to have been no longer politically active, and her footprints are for most purposes absent from the historical record . It is known that she died on 27 November 1937 in Leipzig.