It was still three years before the lifting of the ban on female participation in politics, but in 1905 she nevertheless began to involve herself in the unofficial SPD women's group that had been set up in Blumenthal. Tragically, 1905 was also the year in which the Vogt's infant daughter died. In 1908 the ban on female participation was lifted and Anna Vogt joined the Social Democrats in March. Two months later she was deputy party secretary for the Neu-Rönnebeck district - today north Bremen. Her political involvement intensified. She became secretary ("Schriftführerin") of the women's group in the local Blumenthal party and later, after moving into the city itself, in Bremen where she also worked in the party library. It was shortly after this that she met Carl Friedrich Stiegler, a print worker, and ten years her junior. Her first marriage ended in divorce and in 1912 she and Stiegler started living together. They married in 1916. Stiegler, like her first husband, was a committed Social Democrat. However, the First World War produced internal ructions that tested party unity beyond breaking point.
