Rogge-Börner was born in 1878 in Warendorf, Westphalia, Kingdom of Prussia.[1][2] She grew up in garrison cities as her father was a Prussian Army officer.[3] She worked as secondary school teacher before becoming a writer.[3] In 1910, she married a German surgeon.[4]
Rogge-Börner was an influential right-wing writer in the 1920s,[6] sometimes writing under the pseudonym Christa Hoch.[2] She published political pamphlets advocating for gender equality and the social emancipation of Aryan women. She was a proponent of the image of a "new Nordic woman," who "participated fully in the economic and political life of their people" side by side with their men, but who was distinct from the modern woman of the Weimar Republic.[7] This equality and emancipation for Aryan women would allow for their participation in the emerging NaziGerman state.[8]
From its foundation in April 1933, Rogge-Börner edited the monthly The German Fighter (German: Die Deutsche Kämpferin) magazine in Berlin,[9] until it was banned by the Gestapo in 1937.[10] During the magazines publication run, it had an average circulation of 2,600 copies.[10] Alongside her editorship, she wrote for the magazine on ideas of German "feminist utopias"[11][12] and continued the themes of her earlier writing, such as "virulent xenophobia," "racism" and "elitistfeminism."[13]
After World War II, Rogge-Börner's later writing was heavily influenced by Nordic mythology. Her works were included on the "list of literature to be discarded" [de] (German: Liste der auszusondernden Literatur) by the German Administration for Public Education (German: Deutsche Verwaltung für Volksbildung, DZVV) of the Soviet occupation zone in Germany.[14][15][16]
