Anna Boschek

Anna Boschek (14 May 1874, Vienna – 18 November 1957) was an Austrian politician (Social Democrat) and feminist.

Orphaned at a young age, she was forced to quit school and worked as a domestic and at various factories.

[3] At the time, women were prohibited from engaging in political activity, so she took her seat on the committee under an assumed, male, name.

[2] In 1891, Boschek she became a member of the workers' union and the Social democratic ABF.

She remained the most prominent woman in the Austrian trade union movement until the end of World War I.