She attended eight-year elementary school, then received private lessons and finally graduated from the teacher training college.

From 1897 onwards, however, she publicly represented positions that were closer to social democratic ideas, for which she was also attacked as a "bourgeois teacher".

[2] Initially committed to non-partisan work, Leopoldine Glöckel increasingly turned to the Social Democratic Workers' Party.

She enthusiastically supported her husband's school reform and published specialist articles about it in the Arbeiterinnen-Zeitung and its successor Die Frau [de].

After that, she continued to be involved in the party's underground activities; the training school for domestic helpers was a center of the illegal organization during this time.

Both the cremation - at which Karl Seitz gave a eulogy - and the burial of the urn in the Meidling cemetery took place with great public participation.