FREUNDLICH, EMMY (1878— ), Austrian politician, was born at Aussig, Czechoslovakia in 1878. She married in 1889, and with her husband began to work among the textile workers of Moravia. There, from 1900-1911, she was the leader of the Socialist women's organization, and one of the managing board of the local co-operative society. In 1911 she went to Vienna, and from that date began her assiduous and regular work for co operation ;.she insisted on the importance of the representation of women on every co-operative society's management. Frau Freund lich became a member of the central committee of the Austrian Co-operatives, a member of the board of the wholesale society, and of the central committee, and in 1927 of the Executive Com mittee of the International Co-operative Alliance. She entered the Austrian parliament in 1919, and was closely associated with Dr. Renner during his premiership. From 1919 onwards, she repre sented the consumers on the Austrian food ministry, and sat on the municipal council of Vienna, from 1919-1921.
In 1926 she was invited by the League of Nations to sit on the preparatory committee for the World Economic Conference ; she was a member of that conference (1927), and of the enlarged Advisory Economic Committee appointed to promote the decisions of the conference.