Adelheid Steinmann

One of her grandsons is Wulf Steinmann (born 1930), former member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts and president of the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich (1982–1994).

Baden became the first country in the German Empire where women had been enrolled for the winter semester 1899/1900 at the University of Freiburg.

[1] Until then, women in Germany were only allowed to study with a special permit or they had to be admitted as a guest.

Since 1912 she worked with Julie Bassermann (1860–1940) in the Reichsfrauenausschuss of the National Liberal Party (Nationalliberale Partei).

Adelheid Steinmann ran for the Reichstag in 1919, but she transferred her secure place on the list to the younger Marie Elisabeth Lüders (1878–1966).