 She later became president of the Viennese Democratic Women's Association () which supported equal rights for men and women while also providing medical care to those wounded during the Revolution.Its members attended the funerals of those killed during the riots in August when workers and students fought the conservative National Guard ().When the government's troops crushed the revolutionaries during the Vienna uprising in October 1848, von Perin-Gradenstein was arrested and Becher was executed on 23 November.