Marianne Weber (born Marianne Schnitger, 2 August 1870 -- 12 March 1954) was a German sociologist, women's rights activist and the wife of Max Weber. Marianne Schnitger was born on 2 August 1870 in Oerlinghausen to medical doctor Eduard Schnitger and his wife Anna Weber, daughter of a prominent Oerlinghausen businessman Karl Weber. After the death of _her_ mother in 1873 she moved to Lemgo and was raised for the next fourteen years by her grandmother and aunt. <sep>, Pronoun: her