15 Facts About Adelheid Popp

Adelheid Popp was an Austrian feminist and socialist who worked as a journalist and politician.

Adelheid Popp's father, Adalbert, was a weaver and an abusive alcoholic.

Adelheid Popp received three years of formal education but was often absent due to familial illnesses.

Adelheid Popp worked briefly as a domestic worker, as a seamstress' apprentice crocheting handkerchiefs, and finally as a factory worker.

Adelheid Popp read about how poverty was universal and a product of an unjust society.

Adelheid Popp would give her first speech at a meeting for the association, inspired by a speaker describing women's working conditions.

Adelheid Popp became the editor-in-chief of the social women's newspaper, Die Arbeiterinnenzeitung, in October 1892.

Julius Adelheid Popp was sickly and twenty years her senior, but they reportedly had a loving relationship and supported each others' work.

Adelheid Popp criticized trade unionists for demanding that membership of women's organizations had to be limited to union members, when unions weren't allowing female members in general and because so many women worked in the non-union domestic service sector.

Adelheid Popp entered the 20th century creating the Union of Homeworkers in 1902, followed by the Association of Social Democratic Women and Girls in 1907.

In 1918, Adelheid Popp was elected to the Vienna City Council.

Adelheid Popp was elected to the Constituent National Assembly and then, as one of seven female Social Democrats, to the Parliament of Austria in 1919.

Adelheid Popp proposed bills for family law reform, which focused on overturning men's unlimited power as heads of households.

Adelheid Popp fought for the legalization of abortion and equal pay.

Adelheid Popp is a featured figure on Judy Chicago's installation piece The Dinner Party, being represented as one of the 999 names on the Heritage Floor, associated with Susan B Anthony's place setting.