Auguste Förster (7 December 1848,

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– 3 October 1926, Brunswick) was a

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educationalist and activist in the bourgeois

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. She was founder of the Kassel Organization of Women's Groups (Gründerin des Verbandes Kassler Frauenvereine). In 1893 she attended the founding of the

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meeting on the occasion of the 1893

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in Chicago. She was accompanied by Anna Simson, Hanna Bieber-Böhm and

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. They took the example of the American National Council of Women as inspiration for founding the

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(Federation of German Women's Associations), of which Auguste became one of the founding board members.

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