Eugenia Pragierowa

Eugenia Pragierowa née Berke (14 July 1888 – 5 May 1964) was a lawyer, Polish socialist activist, feminist, and a politician representing the Polish Socialist Party and the Polish United Workers' Party and high ranking civil servant.

She was a participant in school strikes in 1905, arrested, and imprisoned for a total of seven months.

She obtained a doctoral degree in law after defending her doctoral dissertation entitled Die Genossenschaftsbewegung im Königreich Polen (Cooperative Movement in the Kingdom of Poland).

In the years 1910–1914 she was a member of the socialist PPS-Left, from 1919 a member of PPS, from 1919 to 1925, head of the Labour Protection Department of the Ministry of Labour and Social Welfare, and from 1925 to 1939 lecturer at the Free Polish University.

In 1912 she had married Adam Pragier, an activist in the PPS, whose career she shadowed closely and who remained in British exile after 1945.