 From 1930 to 1933 she sat as a Centre Party member of the Reichstag (German national parliament).In October 1946 she was appointed a member of the of North Rhine-Westphalia, serving for two consecutive terms, till April 1947.Elisabeth Zillken was born at Wallerfangen, a small town to the north of Saarlouis, the eldest of the five children of Anna and Engelbert Zillken.