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German feminists

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Angela Merkel
chancellor of Germany from 2005 to 2021 (born 1954)
Herbert Marcuse
German philosopher, sociologist, and political theorist (1898–1979)
Petra Kelly
German politician and activist (1947-1992)
Ruth Westheimer
German-American sex therapist
Alice Schwarzer
German journalist, publisher, and feminist
Shere Hite
German-American sexologist
Dorothee Sölle
German theologian (1929–2003)
Marianne Weber
German women's rights activist and legal historian (1870-1954)
Hedwig Dohm
German feminist, writer, and opinion journalist (1831–1919)
Seyran Ateş
Turkish-German attorney (born 1963)
Helene Lange
German feminist, editor (1848-1930)
Helene Stöcker
German feminist, pacifist and gender activist (1869–1943)
Maria Mies
German sociologist (1931–2023)
Marie Stritt
German feminist, editor (1855–1928)
Louise Otto-Peters
19th-century German feminist, poet, and writer, editor
Lina Morgenstern
German writer, educator, feminist and pacifist, editor (1830-1909)
Luise Aston
German writer, editor (1814–1871)
Lida Heymann
German feminist, editor (1868–1943)
Auguste Schmidt
German activist, editor (1833-1902)
Alice Herz
American-based German activist
Minna Cauer
German journalist, editor (1841–1922)
Ulrike Ottinger
German filmmaker and photographer (born 1942)
Lydia Rabinowitsch-Kempner
American bacteriologist and physician (1871–1935)
Rahel Straus
German-Jewish physician, feminist and writer
Gertrud Bäumer
German politician (1873–1954)
Alice Rühle-Gerstel
German-Jewish writer, psychologist
Rudolf Bahro
German politician and writer (1935-1997)
Käthe Schirmacher
German politician (1865-1930)
Jutta Ditfurth
German sociologist, writer and politician
Zana Ramadani
politician and activist from Germany
Margarethe Lenore Selenka
German paleontologist, anthropologist and feminist (1860-1923)
Ottilie Assing
Feminist, freethinker, abolitionist (1819–1884)
Carolin Emcke
German journalist; Peace Prize of the German Book Trade 2016
Henriette Goldschmidt
Jewish German feminist (1825–1920)
Jenny Apolant
German Jewish feminist and women's suffrage activist (1874-1925)
Verena Stefan
German writer (1947-2017)
Karl M. Baer
German-Israeli author, social worker, reformer, suffragist and Zionist
Marie-Elisabeth Lüders
German politician (1878–1966)
Carolin Kebekus
German comedian
Vanessa Hafenbrädl
German light artist
Franziska Becker
German cartoonist, painter and illustrator (born 1949)
Amalia Holst
writer
Luise Zietz
German socialist and feminist (1865–1922)
Heide Göttner-Abendroth
German activist
Roswitha Scholz
German journalist, writer and feminist theorist
Cristina Perincioli
German film director, author, Multimedia Producer, web author
Cornelia Sollfrank
German cyberfeminist artist (born 1960)
Anna Pappritz
(1861-1939) German women's rights activist
Mathilde Ludendorff
German psychiatrist (1877-1966)
Emma Herwegh
German writer (1817-1904)
Cemile Giousouf
German politician
Ivana Hoffmann
German communist
Ida Dehmel
German writer (1870–1942)
Margarete Stokowski
Polish-German essayist
Ika Freudenberg
German activist (1858-1912)
Kathinka Zitz-Halein
German writer (1801–1877)
Ruth Bré
German feminist
Anna Rüling
German journalist and LGBT activist, speaker of the world's first lesbian political speech (1880–1953)
Anna Schepeler-Lette
German feminist (1829-1897)
Meredith Haaf
German feminist writer