 She also set up a women's education institution in the city.With many of the men away at war women were now expected to take a more prominent role in organising matters at home, and like many, by the end of the war she was convinced that women should be entitled to vote in national and local elections on the same basis as men.In the event, the new constitution introduced during the 1918/19 revolution, delivered (along with a number of other innovations which generated more discussion at the time), and in 1919 von Forster became a DDP city councillor.