Hanna Bieber-Böhm a women's rights activist
Hanna Bieber-Böhm (1851-1910) is one of the most important personalities who campaigned for women's rights in Germany in the 19th century. She increasingly turned to politics and fought against existing grievances. She joined the German women's movement, which campaigned in particular for equal rights and employment for women, for the protection of children and young people, and for the improvement of the social conditions of young women. Hardly anyone knows that Hanna Bieber-Böhm left her mark in Neuzelle. In 1902 she bought a house on the Priorsberg for the Youth Protection Association, which served as a winemaker's house during the monastery era and is now used as a boarding school for the pupils of the Rahn schools. She set up a youth convalescent home for "pallid, weak girls", which was also open to mothers with children and older women. The establishment of a home economics and gardening school enabled women to have a better start to an independent professional life after their return to Berlin.
In gratitude and in honor of her tireless work, a monument was erected on the Priorsberg in Neuzelle after her death. The gravestone inscription reads: "She lived for others."
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