Frieda Nadig
Friederike Nadig (11 December 1897 – 14 August 1970) was a German politician of the Social Democratic Party (SPD). One of the four women members of the Parlamentarischer Rat who drafted the Basic Law for the Federal Republic of Germany in 1948/49, she was one of the . Life Friederike Charlotte Louise Nadig was born in Herford on 11 December 1897. Her father Wilhelm Nadig, a joiner, was a SPD politician who served in the Landtag of Prussia from 1919 to 1931. Her mother Luise Henriette Friederike Drewes was a seamstress. After being educated at a , Nadig completed vocational training as a sales clerk at the co-operative and worked as saleswoman from 1914 to 1920. From 1920 to 1922 she studied at the Social Women's School of Alice Salomon in Berlin, where she qualified as a social worker. From 1922, she was a youth social worker in the city of Bielefeld social office and volunteered in the (Worker's Welfare), a social aid organisation. In May 1933, Nadig was summarily dismissed from her job for "unreliability" based on her "Marxist attitude" and the Nazi Law for the Restoration of the Professional Civil Service. After three years of unemployment and difficulties