Sophie Stecker was the youngest of six children in a long-established Schmallenberg family. Her older sister Therese Stecker trained as a knitter in 1870/71 in Köln and then trained workers herself…
Sophie Stecker (1864-1957)
She traveled to Köln as a young woman in the 1890s and sold her knitwear herself - highly unusual for a woman at the time!
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