Gertrud Bäumer

Gertrud Bäumer (12 September 1873, Hagen-Hohenlimburg, Westphalia – 25 March 1954, Bethel) was a German politician who actively participated in the Feminist movement. She was also a writer, and contributed to Friedrich Naumann's paper Die Hilfe.

She was head of the Federation of German Women during World War I. After the war she joined the German Democratic Party, for which she was a Reichstag member between 1919 and 1932.

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