Barbara Schack (Czech: Barbora Schacková; 20 September 1874 – 27 October 1958) was a Sudeten German politician who served in the Senate of Czechoslovakia from 1933 until 1935. A member of the German Social Democratic Workers' Party, she led the women's wing of the party for the entire Interwar period.
Barbara Schack | |
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Barbora Schacková | |
 Schack c. 1930s | |
| Senator | |
| In office 26 May 1933 – 1935 | |
| Preceded by | Anton Jarolim |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 20 September 1874 Cheb, Bohemia, Austria-Hungary |
| Died | 27 October 1958 (aged 84) Moosburg an der Isar, Bavaria, West Germany |
| Political party | DSAP |
| Spouse | Josef Engelbert Schack |
| Children | 1 |
Biography edit
Barbara Schack was born on 20 September 1874 in Cheb in Bohemia, then part of Austria-Hungary.[1][2] A Sudeten German, Schack's public career began in 1895 when she co-founded the Women's Workers' Education Association in Cheb and Kraslice. She later became a prominent member German Social Democratic Workers' Party (DSAP) in the far-western portion of Czechoslovakia. From 1918 until 1938, she chaired the party's women's wing, and at some point was a member of the Cheb town council.[3][4]
In the 1929 Czechoslovak parliamentary election, Schack was elected to the Senate of Czechoslovakia as the substitute for Anton Jarolim.[5] She was one of two female DSAP senators elected in the Interwar period, alongside Anna Perthen.[6] Jarolim died in office and Schack was sworn-in to replace him on 26 May 1933.[5][7] During her tenure, she gave two recorded speeches; occurring in 1933 and 1934, both speeches were about the Budget and Finance Acts for the following years.[8][9] Schack left office at the end of her term in 1935.[10]
Following the German annexation of the Sudetenland in 1938, Schack was arrested by the Nazi regime and imprisoned for five months.[3][11] In 1946 – following the end of World War II – she was deported to Germany, settling in the town of Moosburg an der Isar in Bavaria. Schack died in Moosburg on 27 October 1958.[3][4] Her husband was Josef Engelbert Schack, a shoe upper manufacturer who died in the 1950s. Their son Emil Schack was a musician who joined the Sturmabteilung in 1942, becoming the leader of a musician platoon.[12]
References edit
- ^ "Barbara Schack". Databáze poslanců (in Czech). Retrieved 2023-11-09.
- ^ Kouřimský 2013, p. 270.
- ^ a b c "Schacková Barbara (Betty)". ČSSD Encyclopedia (in Czech). 2013. Retrieved 2023-11-08.
- ^ a b Balling 1991, p. 387.
- ^ a b Kouřimský 2013, p. 113, 251.
- ^ Kouřimský 2013, p. 113.
- ^ "NS RČS 1929-1935, Senát, 235. schůze, část 1/1 (7. 11. 1933)". Joint Czech-Slovak Digital Parliamentary Library (in Czech). Retrieved 2023-11-08.
- ^ "SCHACK Barbora, IV. voleb. kraj, DSD". Senate of the Czech Republic (in Czech). Retrieved 2023-11-08.
- ^ "SCHACK Barbora, IV. voleb. kraj, DSD". Joint Czech-Slovak Digital Parliamentary Library (in Czech). Retrieved 2023-11-08.
- ^ Kouřimský 2013, p. 251.
- ^ Kouřimský 2013, p. 116.
- ^ Mareš, Jan; Kareš, Ivo (2001-01-01). "Milostné písně potulného tovaryše" [Love Songs of a Wandering Journeyman]. South Czech Science Library in České Budějovicé (in Czech). Retrieved 2023-11-08.
Sources edit
- Balling, Mads Ole (1991). Von Reval bis Bukarest – Statistisch-Biographisches Handbuch der Parlamentarier der deutschen Minderheiten in Ostmittel- und Südosteuropa 1919–1945 [From Reval to Bucharest - Statistical-Biographical Handbook of the Parliamentarians of the German Minorities in East Central and Southeastern Europe 1919–1945] (in German). Copenhagen: Dokumentation Verlag. ISBN 8798382918. OCLC 30702870.
- Kouřimský, Jan (2013). Postavení československého Senátu v politickém systému První republiky [The Position of the Czechoslovakia Senate in the Political System in the First Republic] (PDF) (Thesis) (in Czech). Prague: Charles University.