Henriette Fürth (1861-1938), born in Giessen, was unable to train as a teacher due to her family's financial situation and the limited opportunities for Jewish women in the civil service. In 1880, Henriette married Wilhelm Fürth, with whom she had eight children. She continued her education and began working as a journalist, soon earning a living for her family. In Frankfurt, where the family had lived since 1885, she published her first study, ‘Frauenarbeit in der Herrenschneiderei’ (Women's Work in Men's Tailoring), in 1896. She championed issues such as child and maternity protection, women's employment, sex education, housing construction and women's suffrage. Henriette Fürth co-founded the ‘Educational Association for Working-Class Women and Girls’ in 1902 and, together with others, founded the Jewish Women's Association in 1904 to give Jewish women a forum and win them over to the women's movement. She was involved in both the proletarian and bourgeois women's movements. In 1916, she joined the SPD, for which she sat in the Frankfurt city parliament from 1919 to 1924. Dismissed from all offices by the Nazis in 1933, Henriette Fürth, now widowed, moved to Bad Ems to live with her son-in-law, where she died in 1938. Two of her daughters were murdered in Auschwitz, while her other six children managed to escape.