Louise Wright (activist)

Louise Gustave Dorothea Hildegard Wright née Bauditz (1861–1935) was a Danish philanthropist, feminist and peace activist.

In 1913, she became director of the Præmieselskabet for Plejemødre, a society for working mothers, supervising over 600 Copenhagen foster children under the age of five, She remained in the post for the rest of her life.

In 1911, she became a member of Danske Kvinders Nationalråd (DKN)'s press committee and in 1914 she joined the board of Foreningen Mødres og Børns Bespisning, an association for the welfare of single mothers with children.

[1][2] As Wright was a native of Southern Jutland, with the outbreak of the First World War in 1914, she headed Flensborg-Samfundet (the Flensburg Society) in the hope that the former Danish territories would be returned to Denmark.

The following year, she joined Danske Kvinders Fredskæde, the Danish chapter of the newly established Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom.