Henny Sattler (11 August 1829 - 9 February 1913) was a German women's rights activist and a social work pioneer.
Despite her gender she was even permitted to accompany her elder brother Wilhelm Sattler (1827–1908) and her parents when they undertook a "grand tour".
[1][2] Through her friendships with Ottilie Hoffmann and Marie Mindermann she became involved with the rapidly developing women's movement in Bremen, and she was soon numbered among the activists in it.
[3] Hoffmann now had to withdraw from the movement in order to look after her parents,[4] while Mindermann and Sattler became members of the board of management and continued to play leading roles.
[1] She also participated in setting up a "Women's Education Association" which organised mixed Sunday evening programmes involving lectures and artistic presentations.
Sattler understood the criticism but drew attention to one or two special aspects of the situation: "...it has turned out that supply and demand cannot be sufficiently satisfied" ("... daß dem Angebot und der Nachfrage nicht immer genügt werden kann").
After Henny Sattler's funeral early in 1913, Pastor Steudel, a committed member of Ernst Haeckel's Monisten League and a proponent of "free religious" ideas, paid tribute to her: The "Berlin Women's Conference" in 1869 promoted the creation of training opportunities for nurses and child carers that were not dependent on church and Henny Sattler was won over to the idea in respect of Bremen.
The tactic seems to have met with success since she was subsequently invited to Magdeburg and Schönbeck to help with the development of similar Red Cross hospitals.
In response to the problem, in 1897 Sattler joined with others to work on the creation of a "Welfare Information Centre" in Bremen and then took charge of running it.