Hedwig Kettler

Hedwig Friederike Karoline Auguste Kettler (19 September 1851 – 5 January 1937) was a German women's rights activist, writer and education reformer.

[2] The Kettler family lived in Weimar and relocated to Hanover in 1893, when Julius was hired to direct the city's statistical office.

[1] Kettler advocated for the treatment of men and women as intellectual equals and for the right of girls to the same educational opportunities offered to boys.

In 1881, she founded the magazine Frauenberuf: Monatsschrift für die Interessen der Frauenfrage (Female profession: monthly for the interests of women's issues), to which she was the sole contributor, and in 1887, she began publishing Bibliothek der Frauenfrage (Library of women's issues).

[1] Kettler withdrew her education reform efforts in 1901 when she became disillusioned with her peers in the Verein Frauenbildungsreform.