Lina Morgenstern

Lina Morgenstern (25 November 1830 – 16 December 1909) was a German writer, educator, feminist and pacifist.

[1] The couple had five children – three daughters (Clara, Olga, and Martha) and two sons (Michael and Alfred).

[1] Morgenstern first started writing articles about education and children's care in order to contribute to the family's income, when her husband had financial problems.

In 1866, during the Austro-Prussian War, she founded Berlin's first Volksküche ('public kitchen,' or soup kitchen), an organization that offered nutritional meals at very low prices (reflecting at most the cost of preparation), based on a philosophy of helping needy people without putting them in the position of accepting outright charity.

[4][5] In 1896, she organised the Internationaler Kongress für Frauenwerke und Frauenbestrebungen in Berlin and she entered in the directive committee of the German Peace Society (DFG) in 1897.