After three years she returned home to her family where she helped look after the household, educate her younger siblings and support her father's business on the administrative side.
In 1911 she teamed up with her long standing life partner Marie Buczkowska to attend a two-month further education teaching course in Mönchen-Gladbach on Popular Economics for Catholic Germany.
She subsequently undertook a training in social work at the Katholische Stiftungshochschule München [de] (Catholic Social-Charity Women's Academy Munich) that had been set up by Ellen Ammann of the BVP.
Alongside these tasks and her KDFB responsibilities she served on the executive committee of the "Association of German Catholic Women Social Administrators" ("Verein katholischer deutscher Sozialbeamtinnen e.V.
When the National Assembly made way for Weimar Germany's first parliament (Reichstag) in June 1920 she did not put herself forward as a candidate in the 1920 general election, preferring to devote herself full-time to church-focused journalism.
[4] Alongside her more directly political work Marie Zettler edited "Bayerisches Frauenland" (loosely, "Bavarian Women's World") between 1919 and 1941.
[8] In a biographical contribution published in 2004 Johann Weber contextualised Buczkowska's reports for a new generation: In June 1941 production of the "Bayerisches Frauenland" came to an end, on the flimsy reasoning that "people and raw materials needed to be freed up for important war objectives".
[1] Following the collapse of Hitler's Germany Bavaria found itself administered, till May 1949, as part of the American zone of occupation: Zettler made a start on rebuilding the KDFB.