Marianne Weber

Marianne Weber (born Marianne Schnitger, 1870 to 1954) was a German sociologist and women's rights activist, and the wife of Max Weber. Born in Oerlinghausen, she studied with the neo-Kantian philosopher Heinrich Rickert, joined the women's movement in 1895 and in 1896 co-founded a society for the circulation of feminist thought in Heidelberg. Her books include Fichtes Sozialismus und sein Verhältnis zur Marxschen Doktrin of 1900 and her landmark Ehefrau und Mutter in der Rechtsentwicklung of 1907, a study of wife and mother in the development of law. In 1918 she joined the German Democratic Party and became the first woman elected as a delegate in the state parliament of Baden, and from 1919 to 1923 she chaired the League of German Women's Associations.