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Marie Bernays (13 May 188322 April 1939) was a German politician, educator, writer and women's rights activist. She co-founded the Mannheim Women's Social School and served in the Landtag of the Republic of Baden from 1921 until 1925 as a member of the Deutsche Volkspartei.
Together with Elisabeth Altmann-Gottheiner, Julie Bassermann and Alice Bensheimer, in 1916 she founded the Mannheim Soziale Frauenschule (Women's Social School), and from 1919 to 1932 Bernays served as the school's director. She collaborated with the communist revolutionary Eugen Leviné in 1919 to host discussion evenings in Heidelberg. In 1920, she stood as a candidate for the Deutsche Volkspartei (DVP; German People's Party) in the Weimar Reichstag elections; she appeared at fourteenth on the party's national list. She was elected to the Baden Landtag – the parliament of the Republic of Baden – in 1921 and held her seat until 1925. She wrote many articles and pamphlets on topics including women's role in a democratic society, child-rearing, and social welfare.
In 1933, distressed by the rise of Nazism and the DVP's shift towards right-wing politics, she entered a convent and converted to Roman Catholicism. She died of natural causes in 1939 in Beuron.
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Categories: 1883 Births, 1939 Deaths, 20th-century German Educators, 20th-century German Women Writers, 20th-century German Writers, Converts To Roman Catholicism From Protestantism, German People's Party Politicians, German People Of Jewish Descent, German Roman Catholics, German Women's Rights Activists, Heidelberg University Alumni, Jewish German Politicians, Jewish Women Politicians, Ministers Of The Baden State Government, Politicians From Heidelberg
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