[2] Although she was an important activist in Austrian history, relatively little is known about Ernestine von Fürth's private life.

Born Ernestine Kisch to a wealthy Prague family, she married the court lawyer Emil von Fürth [de],[3] who was at that time a member of the Viennese Sozialpolitische Partei (Social-Political Party).

Both converted from Judaism in 1905. in 1906, Ernestine von Fürth founded the Austrian women's suffrage committee alongside Leopoldine Glöckel.

In March 1912, Fürth was also a leading participant in the convening of the first Austrian women's suffrage conference in Vienna, which was intended to unite the Cisleithanien women's suffrage associations under one umbrella organization.

The mother and son fled together to the United States in 1938 to avoid persecution under the rise of National Socialism and the Nazi regime.