Amalie Raiffeisen (2 August 1846 - 11 January 1897) was a German social reformer.
By the 1860s her father, Friedrich Wilhelm Raiffeisen, was almost blind. By handling his correspondence with him she was indispensable in his creation of the Cooperative movement in Germany.[1]
She grew up in a religious family and was educated according to the social precepts of the time, accepting that even after reaching adulthood it was her duty to respect her father's wishes. These involved shunning marriage in order to stay by her father's side and help him in his work. After Friedrich Wilhelm Raiffeisen eventually died, in 1888, she continued to work for the Cooperative movement. From 1892 till her own death she was the only surviving family member with shares in the undertaking.
- ^ Walter Koch: Amalie Raiffeisen (1846–1897) in Frauenbüro Neuwied (Hrsg.): Von Frau zu Frau, Teil II, Verlag Peter Kehrein, 1995, ISBN 978-3-9803266-5-0, pp. 43-59