Marie Bernays (13 May 1883 – 22 April 1939)[1] was a German politician, educator, writer and women's rights activist.

She co-founded the Mannheim Women's Social School and served in the Landtag of the Republic of Baden from 1921 until 1925 as a member of the Deutsche Volkspartei.

The family moved again in 1905 to Heidelberg, where Bernays sat her Abitur at the humanities-oriented Humanistisches Gymnasium in 1906.

She wrote many articles and pamphlets on topics including women's role in a democratic society, child-rearing, and social welfare.

[2] In 1933, distressed by the rise of Nazism and the DVP's shift towards right-wing politics, she entered a convent and converted to Roman Catholicism.