Hedwiga Reicher


Hedwiga Reicher was a German actress, half-sister of actor Frank Reicher, sister of actor and screenwriter Ernst Reicher, and daughter of actor Emanuel Reicher.
in front of the Treasury Building in Washington, D.C., on 3 March 1913.

Selected filmography

Reicher was hired to portray the mythological figure Columbia for the Woman Suffrage Procession, a suffrage parade on March 3, 1913, in Washington, DC. According to news reports at the time, the group, which included 5000 to 8000 suffragists, marched from the US Capitol to the Treasury Building, and was watched by a crowd of 500,000. Their intent was to upstage Woodrow Wilson's inauguration, due to take place the following day.