User:Asilvering/Louise Neckbecker

Louise Elisa Neckbecker (or Neibecker, née Keinerknecht) (1843 - after 1883) was a trim-maker and a communard who was captain of the Federated Legion of Women during the Paris Commune.

She was born in Lay-Saint-Christophe. During the Commune, she lived at 21 rue de la Croix-Rouge. Her husband, Hermès Henri Neibecker, had died in prison on 6 January 1871; according to the police, she worked as a prostitute after being widowed. In addition to her role as captain of the Federated Legion of Women, she frequently attended political clubs at St-Eloi in the 12th arrondissement and St-Bernard in the 13th arrondissement. During Semaine sanglante, on 24 and 25 May, she attended to the ambulance at rue de Charenton, in the 12th arrondissement. For her role in the Commune, on 8 April 1872 the 26th Court Martial sentenced her to five years in prison and ten years of surveillance. She is one of only four women known with certainty to have been members of the Federated Legion of women.

She had three children. She remarried, to Henry Deserdelle, at Nancy on 30 June 1883.