German education

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The German Education course ran from 1919 to 1938 in Austria .

The intellectual father and actual founder of the course was the Austrian historian and Germanist Georg Hüsing . The German Education Society was responsible for the organization and implementation of the course and was registered with the Vienna Police Department on November 25, 1930 by the Austrian folklorist Edmund Mudrak . The course was based on völkisch ideas and in its courses, the central themes of which were 'race care' and 'race obligation', mainly addressed to pupils , students , senior academics and members of the youth movement .

The course 'German Education' ran annually from 1919 to 1938, albeit with a one-year interruption, which occurred in the second year of the course in 1920. At the beginning the course consisted of 320 teaching hours, but in the following years both the number of hours and the number of teachers decreased rapidly. Permanent teachers were Georg Hüsing , Othmar Spann , Gustav Kraitschek , Karl von Spieß , Wolfgang Schultz Lothar Tirala and Edmund Mudrak .

The Nazi- loyal archaeologist Otto Wilhelm von Vacano describes it as a course "in which the ethnic German youth of the confederations and the student body should forge the intellectual weapons for the ideological battle." Karl von Spieß, who works as a course lecturer, emphasizes that in the course "from the beginning, German education was understood to mean the knowledge of the people's own values, which are presented as race, language and Aryan tradition."

With the annexation of Austria to the Third Reich in 1938 the course activity ended. A good two years after the Second World War , the Society for German Education was finally dissolved by the Vienna Police Department on August 7, 1947 because it did not conform to the principles of a democratic state. Up to this point in time, Mudrak was still active for the society, because in June 1947 he officially gave information about the association's assets.

literature

  • Bockhorn, Olaf (1994). "About rituals, myths and circles of life: Folklore around the University of Vienna". In: Jacobeit, Wolfgang & Lixfeld, Hannjost (eds.). Folk Science. Forms and tendencies of German and Austrian folklore in the first half of the 20th century . Vienna / Cologne / Weimar: Böhlau. Pp. 477-526.
  • Bockhorn, Olaf (2010). “'The matter of Dr. Wolfram, Vienna '. To fill the professorship for Germanic-German folklore at the University of Vienna ”. In: Ash, Mitchell G. & Niess, Wolfram & Pils, Ramon (eds.). Humanities under National Socialism. The example of the University of Vienna . Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht unipress. Pp. 199-224.
  • Dow, James R. & Bockhorn, Olaf (2004). The Study of European Ethnology in Austria . Aldershot: Ashgate.
  • Nikitsch, Herbert (2006). Early science on the stage. From the history of the Society for Folklore (1894–1945) . Vienna: Verlag des Verein für Volkskunde.
  • Nikitsch, Herbert (2013). "Stadiongasse 9. From the 'Eichendorff-Haus', the 'German Education' and the 'German Association for Alcohol-Free Culture'". In: Helmut Eberhart (ed.). Folk culture from the center. Festschrift for Olaf Bockhorn . (Special publications of the Society for Folklore in Vienna 6). Vienna. Pp. 139-157.
  • Pfalzgraf, Falco (2016). "The course 'German Education'". In: Karl Tekusch as a language nurse. His role in Viennese language associations in the 20th century . (Greifswald contributions to linguistics 10.) Bremen: Hempen. Pp. 33-38.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Bockhorn, Olaf (2010). “'The matter of Dr. Wolfram, Vienna '. To fill the professorship for Germanic-German folklore at the University of Vienna ”. In: Ash, Mitchell G. & Niess, Wolfram & Pils, Ramon (eds.). Humanities under National Socialism. The example of the University of Vienna . Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht unipress. P. 202.
  2. ↑ Bockhorn, Olaf (1994). "About rituals, myths and circles of life: Folklore around the University of Vienna". In: Jacobeit, Wolfgang & Lixfeld, Hannjost (eds.). Folk Science. Forms and tendencies of German and Austrian folklore in the first half of the 20th century . Vienna / Cologne / Weimar: Böhlau. P. 493.
  3. ↑ Nikitsch, Herbert (2006). Early science on the stage. From the history of the Society for Folklore (1894–1945) . Vienna: Verlag des Verein für Volkskunde. P. 37 f.
  4. ^ Reitterer, Hubert (1995). "Wolfgang Schultz". In: ÖBL - Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 . 51. Delivery. Band Schoblik – Schösler. Vienna: Publishing house of the Austrian Academy of Sciences. P. 352 f.
  5. ^ Dow, James R. & Bockhorn, Olaf (2004). The Study of European Ethnology in Austria . Aldershot: Ashgate. P. 41 ff.
  6. ↑ Bockhorn, Olaf (1994). "About rituals, myths and circles of life: Folklore around the University of Vienna". In: Jacobeit, Wolfgang & Lixfeld, Hannjost (eds.). Folk Science. Forms and tendencies of German and Austrian folklore in the first half of the 20th century . Vienna / Cologne / Weimar: Böhlau. P. 41 f.
  7. ↑ Vacano, Otto [resp. Otfried] Wilhelm von (1936). "Wolfgang Schultz in memory". In: Volk und Rasse 11, p. 443.
  8. ^ Spieß, Karl von (1936). "The life's work of Wolfgang Schultz". In: National Socialist monthly issue 80, p. 980.