page_title: Rosa Buchthal
section_title: Life
hierarchical_section_title: Rosa Buchthal / Life
caption_attribution_description: Deutsch: Rosa Buchthal mit Geschwistern. Von links: Martha, Clara, Sophie, Hedwig, Helene, Mathilde, Johanna, Rosa. Das Foto ist nicht exakt datiert, sondern mit dem Vermerk "um 1895".
context_page_description: Rosa Buchthal, née Dalberg was a German politician and a fighter for women's rights. She was the first woman to be elected to the Dortmund city council.
context_section_description: Rosa Dalberg was the eldest of eight daughters of a respected Jewish couple Emilie (born Heymann) and Abraham/Alexander Dalberg living in Marsberg, Sauerland, Germany. When she was born in 1874, her parents sold cattle and fabrics. They lived on the main street of Niedermarsberg in a neoclassical style villa. After attending the girls' school in Marsberg she married Felix Buchthal († 1921), the Jewish owner of a coffee house trading coffee and chocolate in Dortmund. In 1894 "Buchthal u. Comp." moved into a new house in Bornstr. 19. The company had several coffee shops in the city, and Rosa was, unusual for that time, not a housewife but the co-managing director. Felix and Rosa had two children, Alice (born 17 February 1896) and Arnold (born 18 November 1900).
caption: Rosa Buchthal (right) with all her sisters, ca. 1895
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