Meanwhile, she continued to find time for activism and campaigning. She co-founded the Richard Wagner Association of German Women ("Richard-Wagner-Verband deutscher Frauen") . A more progressive process, starting in 1898, was the creation through amalgamations of the , of which Kipfmüller can also be seen as a co-founder. Following the slaughter of the First World War, Bertha Kipfmüller was one of many Germans who felt both called and able to participate more directly in national politics. November 1918 delivered votes for women, effect January 1919, and a new republican constitution. In 1919 Kipfmüller joined the Social Democratic Party (SPD). Later she joined the Association of Socialist German Teachers ("Verband Sozialistischer Lehrer und Lehrerinnen"). She also chaired the Nuremberg branch of the 1933. During 1933 she was forced to reign from this position when the VDA was converted into a National Socialist organisation.