Katharina Scheven (1861 – 6 August 1922) was a German feminist who was a leader of the campaign against state-regulated prostitution.

[1] Katharina Scheven was one of the young and liberal women who heard Gertrude Guillaume-Schack speak in London and took up the cause of abolishing regulated prostitution in Germany.

In 1895 the board of the BDF tried to prevent public discussion of a petition on prostitution it had presented to the national parliament because it addresses "very awkward matters".

[1] Anna Pappritz and Katharina Scheven became the two most influential leaders of the German branch of the IAF.

Although the struggle against state-regulated brothels did not succeed, the IAF clubs contributed to mobilizing public opinion.

[6] In 1909 Pappritz and Scheven issued a pamphlet giving the DZIAF position on criminal law reform.

"[7] They stated that regulation of prostitution was an unjustified restriction of civil liberty, and was unjust in affecting only the woman and not her client.