The Association of German Housewives (german: Allgemeiner deutscher HausFrauenverein) was founded in Berlin in 1873 by Linda Morgenstern. Aside from acting as a lobbying group for housewives it published a magazine ''Deutscher Hausfrauenzeitung'' which Morgenstern edited. Alongside offering practical advice, the organisation ran a cooking school and labour exchange for domestic servants. The organisation evolved by fighting for the rights of housewives and sought to gain recognition of housewifery as a profession. Following the outbreak of the

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the association was involved in setting up the National Federation of German Housewives Associations () which played a role in food distribution and sharing information about food price control. Following the end of the

it was one of the most conservative groups within the

League of German Women's Associations The Bund Deutscher Frauenvereine (Federation of German Women's Associations) (BDF) was founded on 28/29 March 1894 as umbrella organization of the women's civil rights feminist movement and existed until the Nazi seizure of power in 1933. Its crea ...

. It participated in the Rhenish Women's League, an organisation setup to protest against the use of African soldiers by the

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in the

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{{reflist Women's suffrage in Germany Women's organisations based in Germany Organisations based in Berlin