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Place of Birth: Vienna, Austria
About Amalie Seidel
- Amalie Seidel (21 February 1876 in Vienna – 11 May 1952) was an Austrian politician (Social Democrat) and feminist.
- She was one of the first of her gender in the Austrian parliament. Born Amalie Ryba, she was the daughter of a locksmith.
- She was active in the working movement from the 1890s, and organised the first strike of female workers in Austria.
- She was also active in the women's movement and an editor of the paper Libertas.
- In 1895 she married the engineer Richard Seidel, with whom she had two daughters, but the marriage did not last.
- In 1900, she became chairperson of the local women's committee and from 1902 chairperson of the national women's committee.
- In 1919, Seidel became one of the first eight women in the Austrian parliament, where she sat until 1934.
- She focused on children and health care, and especially the abuse of foster children by private foster parents, and worked closely to Julius Tandler.
- After the coup of 1934, she was imprisoned for one month and lost her place in the parliament.
- However, she used her home for illegal meetings for socialist women, and in 1942, she married the Jew Sigmund Rausnitz in order to protect him from Nazi prosecution.
- She was briefly imprisoned after the attempted murder on Adolf Hitler in 1944.
- Her daughter Emma married Karl Seitz, the President of the National Council and Mayor of Vienna.
- Emma Seitz and Amalie Seidel-Rausnitz were cremated at Feuerhalle Simmering, where also their ashes are interred.
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