Barbara Schack

Barbara Schack (Czech: Barbora Schacková; 20 September 1874 – 27 October 1958) was a Sudeten German politician who served in the Senate of Czechoslovakia [cs] 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
Barbora Schacková
Schack c. 1930s
Senator [cs]
In office 26 May 1933 – 1935
Preceded by	Anton Jarolim
Personal details
Born	20 September 1874 Cheb, Bohemia, Austria-Hungary
Died	27 October 1958(1958-10-27) (aged 84) Moosburg an der Isar, Bavaria, West Germany
Political party	DSAP
Spouse	Josef Engelbert Schack
Children	1

Biography

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 [cs] 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]