Ernestine Lutze

Lutze was born Ernestine Elsterwerda in Merzdorf in 1873.^[1] She attended primary school in Dresden and Großenhain,^[1] and began working as a maid aged nine. She later became a florist and a board member of the Flower Worker's Association and married painter Karl Otto Lutze. In 1911 she attended trade union school in Berlin.^[1] Back in Dresden, she became a committee member of the regional health insurance fund and in 1917 was appointed to Dresden City Council's housing committee.^[2] After the outbreak of the German Revolution in 1918, she became a member of the city's Workers' and Soldiers' Council.^[2]

Having been a speaker for the Social Democratic Party (SPD) for several years, in January 1919 she was elected to the Weimar National Assembly from the Saxony I constituency as a representative of the SPD. She lost her seat in the 1920 Reichstag elections. In 1926 she joined the new Old Social Democratic Party, becoming a member of the executive committee of the party's East Saxony branch. Between 1926 and 1929 she served as a city councillor in Dresden.^[2]

She died in Dresden in 1948.