Katharina Kloss (21 November 1867 – 2 May 1945) was a German teacher and politician. In 1919 she was one of the 36 women elected to the Weimar National Assembly, the first female parliamentarians in Germany. She remained a member of parliament until the following year.
Biography
Kloss was born in Danzig in 1867,[1] the fourth child of merchant and city councillor Robert Kloss and Elisabeth Hoffmann, who was from Königswalde. She attended a teacher training college in Danzig, passing her examinations in 1887.[1] From 1888 she taught at the Elisabethschule, a middle school for girls. In 1894 she became a member of the board of the Danzig Teacher's Association, and in 1898 became headmistress of the Elisabethschule.[1]