Lily Pringsheim served between 1931 and 1933 as an active member of the Hesse Landtag, after which, for reasons of race and politics, she was forced into exile.
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Lily Pringsheim's father, Carl Chun, was a zoologist and deep sea researcher who was employed as a university professor at Konigsberg, Breslau and then Leipzig.
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Lily Pringsheim married Ernst Pringsheim at Leipzig on 18 March 1907.
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Lily Pringsheim was a professor of botany and a member of a leading Silesian family of Jewish provenance.
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In 1922 Lily Pringsheim settled with her five children in Darmstadt.
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Lily Pringsheim joined the Social Democratic Party in 1921.
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Lily Pringsheim attracted attention as a "brilliant, persuasive and forthright public speaker".
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Lily Pringsheim, now using a Czechoslovak name, became a political refugee again, fleeing to London.
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Lily Pringsheim's visit to the country lasted seven years during which she engaged in teaching and social work with a Quaker Organisation.
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Lily Pringsheim became a much sought after speaker on behalf of the Socialist Party.
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Lily Pringsheim came home to Darmstadt in 1950, making her home at a top floor apartment alongside the Luisenplatz.
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Lily Pringsheim taught conversational English and French at the local school for the rest of her life.
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Lily Pringsheim died at Darmstadt in 1954 having never got over the death of her son, Johannes.