!!!Fickert, Auguste

b. Vienna, May 25, 1855, 
d. Maria Enzersdorf (Lower Austria), June 9, 1910, social 
reformer and feminist. In 1893 founded the leftist General Austrian 
Association of Women ("Allgemeiner oesterreichischer 
Frauenverein") ( Women's Movement), and in 1895 the first 
Austrian institution for the legal protection of women without means. 
initiated the establishment of the building and housing co-operative 
"Heimhof" to provide homes for working women and their families. 
Advocated women's suffrage, successfully called for the creation of 
professional associations for women and the admission of women to 
university studies.

!Publications
"Dokumente der Frauen", monthly publication, ed. by 
A. F., R. Mayreder and M. Lang.

!Literature
R. Flich, Der Fall A. F. - Eine Lehrerin macht 
Schlagzeilen, in: Wr. Geschichtsblaetter 45, 1990.



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