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Anna Malá

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Anna Malá
Member of the Chamber of Deputies
In office
1920–1925
Personal details
Born22 March 1873
Nimburg, Austria-Hungary
Died19 April 1948(1948-04-19) (aged 61)
Prague, Czechoslovakia

Anna Malá (17 May 1886 – 19 April 1948) was a Czechoslovakian politician. In 1920 she was one of the first group of women elected to the Chamber of Deputies.

Biography

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Malá was born in Nimburg in Austria-Hungary in 1886. Prior to entering politics, she was a civil servant in Vinohrady district of Prague.[1]

She was a Czechoslovak Social Democratic Workers' Party candidate in the 1920 parliamentary elections and was one of sixteen women elected to parliament.[2] After the party split in 1921, she joined to the newly formed Communist Party of Czechoslovakia.[2][3]

After leaving parliament in 1925, she returned to working as a clerk and also contributed articles to Rudé právo, the Communist Party's newspaper.[2] She died in Prague in 1948.[2]

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