Wilhelmine Eichler was born in
Queienfeld, a small village in the countryside to the southwest of
Erfurt, in
Saxe-Meiningen, then in central southern
Germany. Her father was a linen weaver. Until her marriage in 1893 she worked in
domestic service. As a young woman she began to engage with the
Social Democratic Party (Sozialdemokratische Partei Deutschlands / SPD), which at this stage was still considered by members of the establishment to be outside the political mainstream. In 1906 she joined the party executive of her local party branch. and participated in various regional assemblies and congresses and national party conferences. She represented Registration District 36 (
Thuringia). Her final four months in the chamber were therefore spent as a Communist member. After May 1924 Wilhelmine appears to have been no longer politically active, and her footprints are for most purposes absent from the historical record. It is known that she died on 27 November 1937 in
Leipzig. ==References==