Käthe Leichter (1895-1942) was among the first women to be admitted to Vienna University, a right she gained through a court decision. She enrolled in political science in 1914 and graduated at the University of Heidelberg after she was refused to do so in Vienna. Leichter received a doctorate with honors in economics in 1918, with the internationally renowned economist Max Weber. In 1925 she returned to Vienna and joined the socialist movement “Red Vienna”; she took over the development of the department of women issues at the Viennese Chamber of Labor, and she conducted research on the working conditions of women. After the Anschluß in 1938, Leichter’s husband and three sons were able to flee, but she was caught by the Gestapo and incarcerated in Ravensbrück. From here she was deported to the euthanasia facility of Bernburg, where she was murdered in 1942.