(1897–2000), first female Austrian architect and communist anti-Nazi resistance member Margarete Schön (1895–1985), German stage and film actress Margarete Seeler (1909–1996), German-born American artist, designer, educator, and author; known for her cloisonné work. Margarete Sommer (1893–1965), German Catholic social worker and lay Dominican who saved Jews from the Holocaust Margarete Steffin (1908–1941), German actress and writer, one of Bertold Brecht's lovers and closest collaborators Margarete Steiff (1847–1909), German seamstress who founded Margarete Steiff GmbH, the toy stuffed animal manufacturer Margarete Teschemacher (1903–1959), German operatic soprano Margarete Wallmann (1901 or 1904–1992), ballerina, choreographer, stage designer and opera director in Austria Margarete von Wrangell (1877–1932), Baltic German agricultural chemist, the first female full professor at a German university Feminine given names German feminine given names