Louise Otto-Peters (1819–1895)

Louise Otto-Peters (1819–1895) came from a middle-class family from Meissen and was known as a socially critical writer and journalist. As one of the founders of the women's movement, she published the Frauen-Zeitung from 1849, which appeared under the motto "Dem Reich der Freiheit werb' ich Bürgerinnen" ("I recruit female citizens for the realm of freedom") until 1852. After both Saxony and Prussia had issued a press law that denied women the right to bring out newspapers, the Frauen-Zeitung had to be shut down. Later, Louise Otto-Peters founded with others the Allgemeiner Deutscher Frauenverein and became its chairwoman for many years.

Louise Otto-Peters (1819–1895), black-and-white photograph, undated, unknown photographer, in: Bäumer, Gertrud: Gestalt und Wandel: Frauenbildnisse, Berlin-Grunewald1939, after p. 320; source: FrauenMediaTurm Bildarchiv, coll. no. FT.01.OttoP.05. Courtesy of FrauenMediaTurm - www.frauenmediaturm.de.