Emilie Kiep-Altenloh (1888–1985) was a German sociologist and politician.
Kiep-Altenloh's doctorate, published as a book in 1914, was "the first scholarly publication on cinema in Germany".
[1] Kiep-Altenloh was politically active in the German Democratic Party, advocating equality between men and women.
The Nazis prohibited her involvement in politics, promoting a turn to biology and zoology in 1934.
She joined Jakob Johann von Uexküll's Institut für Umweltforschung,[2] later taking charge of the Institute and its work training guide dogs for the blind.