Käthe Schirmacher

During this period of time between the 1890s and the early 1900s, Schirmacher travelled around Europe and the United States and have lectures on German culture and women's issues.

The second dictated that in the field of labour, women should have the freedom to choose any occupation and to be compensated equally as any man.

In 1913, with the prospect of war and the wave of nationalism that was hitting Western Europe, Schirmacher broke her ties completely with the women's organisations.

[5] At the outbreak of the World War I, Schirmacher was involved in the writing and publishing of German propaganda, mostly in the form of pamphlets, which were distributed across Germany and France, proclaiming her nationalist beliefs.

[8] In 1919-1920, Schirmacher, as a deputy to the National Assembly, was an early supporter of the 'Black Horror on the Rhine' conspiracy, a racist hate campaign against the use of French colonial soldiers in the occupation of the Rhineland.

[9] She claimed that 'the lust of white, yellow and black Frenchmen for German women leads to daily violence'.

[10] Historians have said that she exemplifies the tradition between Volkisch beliefs and feminist ideas in the German National People's Party.