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Paulas’ best known building, perhaps because it still exists, was built for the
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child protection agency. In 1914, she resigned her position and the couple appeared back in Bistrița—he as a member of the German-Saxon
National Council; she, a little later, as a committee member of an evangelical women's association between 1917 and 1919.
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