Groeneweg, Susanna
| Name |
| ||||
| born on | 4 March 1875 at 12:00 (= 12:00 noon ) | ||||
| Place | Strijensas, Netherlands, 51n43, 4e35 | ||||
| Timezone | LMT m4e35 (is local mean time) | ||||
| Data source |
| ||||
| Astrology data |   13°31'   00°24 Asc. 12°56'
|
Biography
Dutch politician for the Social Democratic Workers' Party (SDAP). She was the first woman to be elected into the Dutch parliament.
Het father Arie Groeneweg (1833-1899) was a farmhand and grocer, her mother Emmigje de Ruiter (1831-1906) a housewife.
Suzannee nver married and became a teacher in Rotterdam. She was active in the work for people's education, and also for gender equality, although she did not participate in eseparate women's groups but preferred to work from within the party. She was also active within the temperance union and the pacifist movement.
Groeneweg was a member of the central committee of the social democratic party, SDAP, in 1917, when partial woman suffrage was introduced: women could be voted into office, but not vote themselves. In 1918, when the first elections after women's suffrage was held, she was elected to parliament as the first woman.
As of 1 January, 1920, women in the Netherlands got the right to actively vote as well (which right they could first use at the 1922 elections). Suze Groeneweg was re-elected the same year, and six other women joined her in the house of representatives.
Groeneweg stayed member of the House of Representatives of the Netherlands until June 1937. She was also member of the municipal council of Rotterdam between 1919 and 1931, and the States-Provincial of South Holland between 1919 and 1937.
On 30 August 1937 she was knigthed.
She died 19 October 1940 in Barendrecht.
Events
- Work : Gain social status 17 September 1918 in Den Haag (First female Member of Dutch Parliament)
chart Placidus Equal_H.
- Work : Published/ Exhibited/ Released 7 November 1918 in Den Haag (maidenspeech)
chart Placidus Equal_H.
- Work : Begin Major Project 2 September 1919 in Rotterdam (Local politician in Rotterdam (till 1 Sept 1931))
chart Placidus Equal_H.
- Work : Great Achievement 27 August 1937 in Rotterdam (First female civil servant of Municipalilty of Rotterdam)
chart Placidus Equal_H.
- Work : Prize 30 August 1937 (awarded Knight of the Order of the Netherlands Lion)
chart Placidus Equal_H.
Source Notes
Svi retrieved BC from online municipal archive of Strijen.
Groeneweg, Susanna (1875-1940)
Categories
- Vocation : Education : Teacher (started as a school teacher)
- Vocation : Politics : Activist/ social (pacifist, teetotalism)
- Vocation : Politics : Activist/ feminist
- Vocation : Politics : Public office (member of parliament, municipal county, province)
- Notable : Famous : First in Field (1st Dutch female member of parliament , Marriage officiant etc)
