Ellen Ammann
Ellen Aurora Elisabeth Morgenröte Ammann née Sundström was a Swedish born - German politician and activist, representative of the Bavarian People's Party.Biography
Ellen Sundström was born in Stockholm, Sweden.
She was the elder daughter of Carl Rudolf Sundström and Carolina Sofia Häggström.
Her father was an ornithologist and doctor of zoology. Her mother was a journalist and foreign editor with Stockholms-Tidningen. She was the sister of Swedish landscape artist Harriet Sundström .
After graduation, she began training as a physiotherapist. In 1890 Ellen Sundström married German orthopedist Ottmar Ammann and then moved with her husband to Munich. She worked for Swedish-German women's rights, and was a welfare nurse and pioneer of professional training for social work. A Roman Catholic convert, in 1904 she co-founded the Munich branch of the German Catholic Women's Association.
From 1919 to 1932, she served as a “landtag” deputy for “Bavarian People’s Party”, where she advocated the professionalisation of women's education. In January 1923, together with Anita Augspurg, Lida Gustava Heymann and a delegation of women, Amman called for Austrian born Adolf Hitler to be expelled from Germany. During the Beer Hall Putsch, she and several members of government hastily composed a condemnation of the attempted coup d'état. She continued to oppose National Socialism until her death. Ellen Ammann died in Munich during 1932 in the aftermath of a stroke. She was buried at Alter Südfriedhof.
