diff --git a/src/lib/components/ToolbarExpanded.svelte b/src/lib/components/ToolbarExpanded.svelte
index 206fa81..1783e54 100644
--- a/src/lib/components/ToolbarExpanded.svelte
+++ b/src/lib/components/ToolbarExpanded.svelte
@@ -823,7 +823,7 @@
     const input = e.target as HTMLInputElement;
     const file = input.files?.[0];
     input.value = ''; // allow re-selecting the same file
-    if (!file || !editor || hfActive) return;
+    if (!file || !editor) return; // editor = activeEditor (body or the active HF zone)
     const reader = new FileReader();
     reader.onload = () => {
       const src = reader.result as string;
@@ -1348,8 +1348,7 @@
       />
       <button
         onclick={() => imageInput?.click()}
-        disabled={!!hfActive}
-        title={hfActive ? t().toolbarExpanded.imageNotInHf : t().toolbarExpanded.insertImage}
+        title={t().toolbarExpanded.insertImage}
         aria-label={t().toolbarExpanded.insertImage}
       >
         <svg width="16" height="16" viewBox="0 0 16 16" fill="none" aria-hidden="true">
diff --git a/src/lib/editor/extensions/headerFooter.ts b/src/lib/editor/extensions/headerFooter.ts
index c98cdf9..7506f68 100644
--- a/src/lib/editor/extensions/headerFooter.ts
+++ b/src/lib/editor/extensions/headerFooter.ts
@@ -16,10 +16,11 @@ import TextAlign from '@tiptap/extension-text-align';
 import { FontWeight } from './fontWeight';
 import { FontColor } from './fontColor';
 import { PageNumber, PageCount } from './pageField';
+import { Image } from './image';
 
 // Schema for the header/footer mini editors: exactly one paragraph of formatted
-// runs, line breaks, and page fields — what odf-kit's HeaderFooterBuilder (and
-// thus the ODT export) can express. Marks mirror the main editor's.
+// runs, line breaks, page fields, and inline (as-character) images. Marks mirror
+// the main editor's; the ODT export emits images via a draw:frame post-process.
 
 const HfDocument = Document.extend({ content: 'paragraph' });
 
@@ -53,6 +54,9 @@ export function hfExtensions(placeholder = '') {
     FontColor,
     Highlight.configure({ multicolor: true }),
     HfHardBreak,
+    // Inline (as-character) images only — the single-paragraph zone has no text flow
+    // for floating/wrapped frames; imports and inserts force wrap:'inline'.
+    Image,
     PageNumber,
     PageCount,
     History,
diff --git a/src/lib/export/odt.ts b/src/lib/export/odt.ts
index 45b7701..16267cc 100644
--- a/src/lib/export/odt.ts
+++ b/src/lib/export/odt.ts
@@ -95,6 +95,11 @@ const COL = '';
 // rewrites it to <text:date>/<text:time> + a minted number style. U+E00A.
 const DTF = '';
 
+// Sentinel wrapping a header/footer image's index (HFIMG{i}HFIMG), emitted as plain
+// run text by replaceHfImages so it rides odf-kit's header/footer path (styles.xml);
+// applyHfPostProcess rewrites it to an as-char <draw:frame>. U+E00B.
+const HFIMG = '';
+
 const EXT_BY_MIME: Record<string, string> = {
   'image/png': 'png',
   'image/jpeg': 'jpg',
@@ -225,7 +230,7 @@ function base64ToBytes(b64: string): Uint8Array<ArrayBuffer> {
 // Decode an `image` node's data-URI src into bytes + geometry. width/height are
 // px @96dpi → cm via round3 (sub-pixel, matches table column widths), so an
 // integer-px image round-trips exactly. Returns null for a non-data/empty src.
-function imageDescriptor(node: TiptapNode, index: number): ImageExport | null {
+function imageDescriptor(node: TiptapNode, index: number, namePrefix = 'image'): ImageExport | null {
   const src = node.attrs?.src;
   if (typeof src !== 'string' || !src.startsWith('data:')) return null;
   const m = /^data:([^;,]+)(;[^,]*)?,([\s\S]*)$/.exec(src);
@@ -246,7 +251,7 @@ function imageDescriptor(node: TiptapNode, index: number): ImageExport | null {
   const wrapAttr = node.attrs?.wrap;
   const wrap: WrapMode = wrapAttr === 'left' || wrapAttr === 'right' || wrapAttr === 'topBottom' ? wrapAttr : 'inline';
   return {
-    path: `Pictures/image${index + 1}.${EXT_BY_MIME[mimeType] ?? 'png'}`,
+    path: `Pictures/${namePrefix}${index + 1}.${EXT_BY_MIME[mimeType] ?? 'png'}`,
     bytes,
     mimeType,
     widthCm: w > 0 ? pxToCm(w) : 0,
@@ -277,6 +282,26 @@ function replaceImages(node: TiptapNode, images: ImageExport[]): TiptapNode {
   return { ...node, content };
 }
 
+// A header/footer paragraph's inline images → HFIMG-sentinel text runs (forced
+// as-character), collected into `images` under a distinct Pictures/hfImage* name so
+// applyHfRuns/hfFirstZoneXml carry the sentinel and applyHfPostProcess resolves it.
+function replaceHfImages(para: TiptapNode | null, images: ImageExport[]): TiptapNode | null {
+  if (!para?.content?.length) return para;
+  const content: TiptapNode[] = [];
+  for (const child of para.content) {
+    if (child.type === 'image') {
+      const desc = imageDescriptor(child, images.length, 'hfImage');
+      if (desc) {
+        images.push(desc);
+        content.push({ type: 'text', text: `${HFIMG}${images.length - 1}${HFIMG}` });
+      }
+      continue; // invalid image → dropped
+    }
+    content.push(child);
+  }
+  return { ...para, content };
+}
+
 // One inserted date/time field, collected by replaceDateTimeFields and emitted by
 // applyDateTimeFields. `value` is the field's stored moment (ISO local datetime).
 type DateTimeFieldExport = { kind: 'date' | 'time'; format: string; fixed: boolean; value: string };
@@ -1717,6 +1742,19 @@ function imageFrameXml(img: ImageExport, index: number): string {
   );
 }
 
+// As-character <draw:frame> for a header/footer image (always inline; no wrap style or
+// rotation). Distinct draw:name so it never collides with a body image's frame.
+function hfImageFrameXml(img: ImageExport, index: number): string {
+  const dims =
+    (img.widthCm ? ` svg:width="${img.widthCm}cm"` : '') +
+    (img.heightCm ? ` svg:height="${img.heightCm}cm"` : '');
+  const title = img.alt ? `<svg:title>${escapeXml(img.alt)}</svg:title>` : '';
+  return (
+    `<draw:frame draw:name="HfImage${index + 1}" text:anchor-type="as-char" draw:z-index="${index}"${dims}>` +
+    `<draw:image xlink:href="${img.path}"/>${title}</draw:frame>`
+  );
+}
+
 // Inject automatic styles, tolerating an empty/self-closed or absent section.
 function injectAutomaticStyles(content: string, styles: string): string {
   if (!styles) return content;
@@ -2064,6 +2102,13 @@ export async function buildOdt(docJson: TiptapNode, margins: PageMargins = DEFAU
   const differentFirstPage = !!hf?.differentFirstPage;
   let firstHeaderPara = differentFirstPage && hf && !hfIsEmpty(hf.headerFirst ?? null) ? (hf.headerFirst!.content![0] as TiptapNode) : null;
   let firstFooterPara = differentFirstPage && hf && !hfIsEmpty(hf.footerFirst ?? null) ? (hf.footerFirst!.content![0] as TiptapNode) : null;
+  // Hoist header/footer inline images out to HFIMG sentinels before odf-kit serializes
+  // the zones; applyHfPostProcess rewrites them to <draw:frame> in styles.xml.
+  const hfImages: ImageExport[] = [];
+  headerPara = replaceHfImages(headerPara, hfImages);
+  footerPara = replaceHfImages(footerPara, hfImages);
+  firstHeaderPara = replaceHfImages(firstHeaderPara, hfImages);
+  firstFooterPara = replaceHfImages(firstFooterPara, hfImages);
   // With the flag on, page 1 is independent: whenever a side has a zone on either
   // variant, emit both (an empty one blanks its side, matching the editor and Word).
   if (differentFirstPage) {
@@ -2203,7 +2248,7 @@ export async function buildOdt(docJson: TiptapNode, margins: PageMargins = DEFAU
   const withPageBreaks = applyPageBreaks(withToc);
   const withEmptyFontSizes = applyEmptyLineFontSizes(withPageBreaks);
   const withStyles = rewriteStylesXml(withEmptyFontSizes, language ?? null, pageFormat, orientation);
-  return applyHfPostProcess(withStyles, margins, headerPara, footerPara, headerDist, footerDist, firstHeaderPara, firstFooterPara, hf?.pageCount ?? 1);
+  return applyHfPostProcess(withStyles, margins, headerPara, footerPara, headerDist, footerDist, firstHeaderPara, firstFooterPara, hf?.pageCount ?? 1, hfImages);
 }
 
 function hfAlign(para: TiptapNode): AlignValue | null {
@@ -2214,8 +2259,8 @@ function hfAlign(para: TiptapNode): AlignValue | null {
 // Header/footer post-processing on styles.xml: resolve LBR/PGC sentinels, apply the
 // paragraph alignment to the Header/Footer styles, and rewrite the geometry to the
 // Word-style mapping (page margin = HF distance, min-height fills up to the body margin).
-function applyHfPostProcess(odtBytes: Uint8Array, margins: PageMargins, headerPara: TiptapNode | null, footerPara: TiptapNode | null, headerDist: number, footerDist: number, firstHeaderPara: TiptapNode | null = null, firstFooterPara: TiptapNode | null = null, pageCount = 1): Uint8Array {
-  if (!headerPara && !footerPara) return odtBytes;
+function applyHfPostProcess(odtBytes: Uint8Array, margins: PageMargins, headerPara: TiptapNode | null, footerPara: TiptapNode | null, headerDist: number, footerDist: number, firstHeaderPara: TiptapNode | null = null, firstFooterPara: TiptapNode | null = null, pageCount = 1, hfImages: ImageExport[] = []): Uint8Array {
+  if (!headerPara && !footerPara && !firstHeaderPara && !firstFooterPara) return odtBytes;
 
   const files = unzipSync(odtBytes);
   const stylesBytes = files['styles.xml'];
@@ -2276,10 +2321,40 @@ function applyHfPostProcess(odtBytes: Uint8Array, margins: PageMargins, headerPa
     }
   }
 
+  // Resolve HFIMG sentinels (default + first-page zones) to as-char <draw:frame>s, then
+  // add the picture binaries and their manifest entries (mirrors the body applyImages).
+  if (hfImages.length) {
+    styles = ensureDrawNamespaces(styles);
+    styles = styles.replace(new RegExp(`${HFIMG}(\\d+)${HFIMG}`, 'g'), (_m, idx: string) => {
+      const img = hfImages[Number(idx)];
+      return img ? hfImageFrameXml(img, Number(idx)) : '';
+    });
+    for (const img of hfImages) files[img.path] = img.bytes;
+    const manifestBytes = files['META-INF/manifest.xml'];
+    if (manifestBytes) {
+      const entries = hfImages
+        .map((img) => `<manifest:file-entry manifest:full-path="${img.path}" manifest:media-type="${img.mimeType}"/>`)
+        .join('');
+      files['META-INF/manifest.xml'] = strToU8(strFromU8(manifestBytes).replace('</manifest:manifest>', `${entries}</manifest:manifest>`));
+    }
+  }
+
   files['styles.xml'] = strToU8(styles);
   return rezipOdt(files);
 }
 
+// styles.xml needs draw/svg/xlink namespaces for an image frame; odf-kit may not declare
+// all three (svg is used by page geometry, but draw/xlink can be absent).
+function ensureDrawNamespaces(styles: string): string {
+  const ns: [string, string][] = [
+    ['draw', 'urn:oasis:names:tc:opendocument:xmlns:drawing:1.0'],
+    ['svg', 'urn:oasis:names:tc:opendocument:xmlns:svg-compatible:1.0'],
+    ['xlink', 'http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink'],
+  ];
+  const missing = ns.filter(([p]) => !styles.includes(`xmlns:${p}=`)).map(([p, uri]) => `xmlns:${p}="${uri}"`);
+  return missing.length ? styles.replace(/<office:document-styles\b/, `<office:document-styles ${missing.join(' ')}`) : styles;
+}
+
 // Serialize a first-page header/footer paragraph to <style:header-first>/<style:footer-first>
 // XML. Runs and page fields become <text:span> referencing minted automatic text styles
 // (pushed via `mint`), so both keep the run's font; hardBreak → line-break.
diff --git a/src/lib/i18n/locales/de.ts b/src/lib/i18n/locales/de.ts
index 4e00633..f8122b8 100644
--- a/src/lib/i18n/locales/de.ts
+++ b/src/lib/i18n/locales/de.ts
@@ -126,7 +126,6 @@ const de: Messages = {
     decrease: (label) => `${label} verkleinern`,
     formattingMarks: 'Formatierungszeichen',
     insertImage: 'Bild einfügen',
-    imageNotInHf: 'Bilder sind in Kopf-/Fußzeilen nicht verfügbar',
     insertTextBox: 'Textfeld einfügen',
     textBoxNotInHf: 'Textfelder sind in Kopf-/Fußzeilen nicht verfügbar',
     columns: 'Spalten',
diff --git a/src/lib/i18n/locales/en.ts b/src/lib/i18n/locales/en.ts
index 7057ebb..b5a192e 100644
--- a/src/lib/i18n/locales/en.ts
+++ b/src/lib/i18n/locales/en.ts
@@ -129,7 +129,6 @@ const en = {
     decrease: (label: string) => `Decrease ${label.toLowerCase()}`,
     formattingMarks: 'Formatting marks',
     insertImage: 'Insert image',
-    imageNotInHf: 'Images are not available in headers/footers',
     insertTextBox: 'Insert text box',
     textBoxNotInHf: 'Text boxes are not available in headers/footers',
     columns: 'Columns',
diff --git a/src/lib/import/docx.ts b/src/lib/import/docx.ts
index 1e94155..aadf889 100644
--- a/src/lib/import/docx.ts
+++ b/src/lib/import/docx.ts
@@ -627,11 +627,15 @@ function convertInline(p: Element, ctx: Ctx, baseRun: RunProps, headingLevel: nu
     const skipResult = () => fieldMode === 'result' && (hfFields || !!fieldDateTime);
 
     // Route a drawing/pict result: an image is inline; a text box is a block node
-    // riding ctx.pendingBlocks. The one-paragraph header/footer schema holds neither,
-    // so drawings there are dropped with a warning.
+    // riding ctx.pendingBlocks. The one-paragraph header/footer schema holds inline
+    // images (forced as-character) but not boxes — those are dropped with a warning.
     const pushDrawn = (n: Node | null) => {
       if (!n) return;
-      if (hfFields) { ctx.warnings.add('Drawings were removed'); return; }
+      if (hfFields) {
+        if (n.type === 'image') { out.push({ ...n, attrs: { ...n.attrs, wrap: 'inline' } }); return; }
+        ctx.warnings.add('Drawings were removed');
+        return;
+      }
       if (n.type !== 'textBox') { out.push(n); return; }
       ctx.pendingBlocks.push(n);
     };
diff --git a/src/lib/import/odt.ts b/src/lib/import/odt.ts
index 4d38c41..f7f68a0 100644
--- a/src/lib/import/odt.ts
+++ b/src/lib/import/odt.ts
@@ -847,12 +847,14 @@ function convertInline(root: Element, ctx: Ctx, baseProps: PropMap, headingLevel
         }
       }
       if (e.namespaceURI === NS.draw) {
-        // The one-paragraph header/footer schema can't hold images or boxes.
+        const conv = convertDrawElement(e, ctx);
+        // The one-paragraph header/footer schema holds inline images (forced
+        // as-character) but not boxes — those are dropped with a warning.
         if (hfFields) {
-          ctx.warnings.add('Drawings were removed');
+          if (conv?.inline?.type === 'image') out.push({ ...conv.inline, attrs: { ...conv.inline.attrs, wrap: 'inline' } });
+          else if (conv) ctx.warnings.add('Drawings were removed');
           continue;
         }
-        const conv = convertDrawElement(e, ctx);
         if (conv?.inline) out.push(conv.inline);
         else if (conv?.block) ctx.pendingBlocks.push(conv.block);
         continue;
diff --git a/tests/docx-roundtrip.test.ts b/tests/docx-roundtrip.test.ts
index 38b3bb3..23a59e1 100644
--- a/tests/docx-roundtrip.test.ts
+++ b/tests/docx-roundtrip.test.ts
@@ -312,6 +312,24 @@ describe('DOCX different first page (w:titlePg)', () => {
     expect(inline[inline.length - 1].type).toBe('hardBreak');
   });
 
+  it('round-trips an inline image in the default footer and the first-page header', async () => {
+    const PNG = 'data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAEAAAABCAQAAAC1HAwCAAAAC0lEQVR42mNk+M9QDwADhgGAWjR9awAAAABJRU5ErkJggg==';
+    const image = (w: number, h: number): N => ({ type: 'image', attrs: { src: PNG, alt: 'Logo', width: w, height: h, wrap: 'inline' } });
+    const withImgs = {
+      ...hf,
+      footer: { type: 'doc', content: [para([text('Logo '), image(120, 48)])] },
+      headerFirst: { type: 'doc', content: [para([image(200, 60)])] },
+    } as any;
+    const res = importDocx(await buildDocx(fixture, undefined, 'portrait', withImgs, { language: 'de', country: 'DE' }));
+    const fi = walk(res.footer, 'image');
+    const hi = walk(res.headerFirst, 'image');
+    expect(fi.length).toBe(1);
+    expect(hi.length).toBe(1);
+    expect(String(fi[0].attrs.src)).toMatch(/^data:image\//);
+    expect(Math.abs(fi[0].attrs.width - 120)).toBeLessThanOrEqual(2);
+    expect(Math.abs(fi[0].attrs.height - 48)).toBeLessThanOrEqual(2);
+  });
+
   it('omits titlePg and first-page zones when the flag is off', async () => {
     const bytes = await buildDocx(fixture, undefined, 'portrait', { ...hf, differentFirstPage: false }, { language: 'de', country: 'DE' });
     const documentXml = strFromU8(unzipSync(bytes)['word/document.xml']);
diff --git a/tests/roundtrip.test.ts b/tests/roundtrip.test.ts
index df981cf..33af978 100644
--- a/tests/roundtrip.test.ts
+++ b/tests/roundtrip.test.ts
@@ -814,6 +814,33 @@ describe('Leg 3a: different first page header/footer → buildOdt → importOdt'
   });
 });
 
+describe('Leg 3b: inline images in header/footer → buildOdt → importOdt', () => {
+  it('round-trips an as-char image in a default zone and a first-page zone', async () => {
+    const PNG = 'data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAEAAAABCAQAAAC1HAwCAAAAC0lEQVR42mNk+M9QDwADhgGAWjR9awAAAABJRU5ErkJggg==';
+    const img = (w: number, h: number): N => ({ type: 'image', attrs: { src: PNG, alt: 'Logo', width: w, height: h, wrap: 'inline' } });
+    const footer: N = { type: 'doc', content: [P({ textAlign: 'center' }, T('Logo '), img(120, 48))] };
+    const headerFirst: N = { type: 'doc', content: [P(null, img(200, 60))] };
+    const header: N = { type: 'doc', content: [P(null, T('Default header'))] };
+    const res = importOdt(await buildOdt(fixture, margins, 'portrait',
+      { header, footer, headerFirst, footerFirst: null, differentFirstPage: true, pageCount: 3 }));
+    const imgs = (doc: N): N[] => { const o: N[] = []; const w = (n: N) => { if (!n) return; if (n.type === 'image') o.push(n); (n.content ?? []).forEach(w); }; w(doc); return o; };
+
+    check('hf image: no warnings', res.warnings.length === 0, res.warnings);
+    const fi = imgs(res.footer);
+    check('hf image: default footer keeps one image', fi.length === 1, res.footer);
+    check('hf image: src is a data-URI', /^data:image\//.test(fi[0]?.attrs?.src ?? ''), fi[0]?.attrs?.src?.slice(0, 24));
+    check('hf image: size preserved (px→cm→px)', Math.abs(fi[0]?.attrs?.width - 120) <= 2 && Math.abs(fi[0]?.attrs?.height - 48) <= 2, fi[0]?.attrs);
+    check('hf image: stays inline (as-char)', (fi[0]?.attrs?.wrap ?? 'inline') === 'inline', fi[0]?.attrs?.wrap);
+    check('hf image: first-page header keeps its image', imgs(res.headerFirst).length === 1, res.headerFirst);
+
+    // Both zones must remain valid in the header/footer editor schema.
+    const hfSchema = getSchema(hfExtensions());
+    let ok = true;
+    for (const z of [res.footer, res.headerFirst]) { if (!z) continue; try { PMNode.fromJSON(hfSchema, z).check(); } catch { ok = false; } }
+    check('hf image: zones valid in hf schema', ok);
+  });
+});
+
 describe('Leg 4: foreign header/footer → importOdt', () => {
   it('parses page-number/count fields, reconstructs body margins, imports the first-page variant', () => {
     const fStyles = `<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>