Luise Kähler

Luise Kähler was a German socialist, trade union leader and politician. She was one of a small number of women union officials that held a prominent position within Germany's trade unions in the first half of the 20th century. She was a member of the Prussian Landtag from 1923 to 1933. She opposed National Socialism and was largely inactive after Hitler came to power in 1933. After the Second World War, she became a founding member of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany, the ruling party in the German Democratic Republic.