--- title: Helene Stocker: Google Doodle Celebrates German Feminist description: Today's Google Doodle celebrates the 148th birthday of German feminist Helene Stocker. canonical: https://time.com/5021041/google-doodle-helene-stocker-feminist/ author: Casey Quackenbush article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-11-13T05:31:46.000Z article:modified_time: 2023-12-13T00:23:12.000Z og:title: Google Doodle Celebrates German Feminist Helene Stocker og:description: Today would be the 148th birthday of the prominent 20th century feminist og:url: https://time.com/5021041/google-doodle-helene-stocker-feminist/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt72a9fc6726874e5b/6988e58d656a3f81e4bd2709/helene-stockers-148th-birthday-6381924103749632-3-2x.png?branch=production&width=818&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 818 og:image:height: 460 og:image:alt: helene-stockers-148th-birthday-6381924103749632.3-2x og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Google Doodle Celebrates German Feminist Helene Stocker twitter:description: Today would be the 148th birthday of the prominent 20th century feminist twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt72a9fc6726874e5b/6988e58d656a3f81e4bd2709/helene-stockers-148th-birthday-6381924103749632-3-2x.png?branch=production&width=818&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Google Doodle Honors Pioneer Feminist Helene Stocker and Even Includes Her Signature Look > Sponsored content. 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Stocker was a pioneer in feminism. Born in 1869 in Germany and raised in a traditional household, she moved to Berlin for her education and became one of the first women to earn her doctorate from the University of Bern. Literate, progressive, and prescient, Stocker sought a future for women free to pursue love and intellect in equal measure. “The modern woman does not as yet belong in this century,” Stocker penned in her most famous 1893 essay, _The Modern Woman_. “She is someone for whom there is still no name – nor man or place in society – for she belongs in all her being to the future.” Stocker later co-founded The League for the Protection of Mothers and Sexual Reform in 1905, where she served as the magazine’s editor. In 1909, she successfully halted parliament’s criminalization of homosexuality. Underscoring all of her activism was her philosophy known as the New Ethic, which championed rights for illegitimate children, the legalization of abortion, and sexual education. When the Nazis rose to power at the onset of World War II, Stocker fled, first to Switzerland and England, but ultimately landing on the Trans-Siberian Railroad to Japan in 1942\. 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