Elisabet Boehm (née Steppuhn) (27 September 1859 – 30 May 1943) was a German feminist, writer, founder of the first Landwirtschaftlichen Hausfrauenvereins ("Agricultural Housewives' Society") and the founder of the rural women's movement in general.
[1] Elisabet Steppuhn was born in Rastenburg, East Prussia, and married landowner Otto Boehm in 1880.
She formed the first Landwirtschaftlichen Hausfrauenvereins, initially with fifteen members, in Rastenburg in 1898.
The society's objectives were to promote educational and training opportunities, recognition of housework as professional work, bridging the gap between urban and rural and practical matters, such as improvement of production and sales in the agricultural sector.
By 1916 the Reichsbund Landwirtschaftlicher Hausfrauenvereine ("Reich Federation of Agricultural Housewives' Societies") had emerged, of which Boehm was Chairman until 1929.