Aline Mayrisch de Saint-Hubert (22 August 1874 – 20 January 1947), née Aline de Saint-Hubert, was a Luxembourgian women's rights campaigner, socialite, philanthropist. Mayrisch established many non-governmental organisations, and was President of the Luxembourg Red Cross. She married to Émile Mayrisch.
Saint-Hubert was the daughter of Xavier de Saint-Hubert, and sister of Jeanne de Saint-Hubert, who had married Xavier Brasseur the previous year (and would marry Brasseur's cousin, Robert Brasseur, in 1914).[1] She married the industrialist Émile Mayrisch, who would become President of the steel giant Arbed, on 15 September 1894.[1]
The first of many organisations that she set up was the 'League for the Defence of the Women's Interests' (French: l'Association pour la Défense des Intérêts de la Femme) in 1905.[1] Saint-Hubert offered the patronage to Hereditary Grand Duchess Marie-Adelaide, but she declined, as a Roman Catholic feminist organisation was due to be set up.[1]
The league's main purposes was to seek the establishment of public girls' schools, which gained momentum with the League's creation of the associated Association for the Creation of a School for Young Girls. This campaign achieved success in 1911, when the Chamber of Deputies unanimously voted to establish publicly-funded girls' schools in Luxembourg City and Esch-sur-Alzette.[2] At the same time, Mayrisch persuaded a group of other prominent Luxembourgian ladies to establish the Association of Girl Guides.[2]
On the outbreak of the First World War, Saint-Hubert set up a hospital near Dudelange, for the aid of servicemen of either side.[2] After the war, she played a key role in setting up the Luxembourgian League Against Tuberculosis, of which she was Vice-President. Her and her husband Émile were the main donors to the League and her other endeavours over the years.[3] She soon became involved in the Luxembourg Red Cross, being appointed a member of its administrative council in 1926, Vice-President after the death of Émile in 1928, and President in 1933.[4]
The Lycée Aline Mayrisch, open in 2001 in Luxembourg City, the city in which she was born, is named after her.