Lore Agnes

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Lore Agnes (née Benning) born Bochum, Westphalia, Germany June 4, 1876 (d. 1953). Socialist labor organizer and militant antiwar activist. Supported Luxembourg general strike, 1913. Arrested for antiwar speech, 1914; arrested for attending Socialist meeting in Zürich, 1917; arrested for participating in antiwar revolution, Nov. 1918. Member of Parliament, 1919-33; arrested by Hitler regime, 1933, 1934, 1944. (photo de.wikipedia)