Franz Senghofer

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Franz Senghofer (born October 18, 1904 in Vienna ; † February 23, 1998 there ) was an Austrian adult educator.

Life

After attending elementary and community school, Senghofer, who would have liked to become a doctor but came from the most modest of backgrounds, became a bank boy. At the age of 15 he became a union shop steward. In 1921 he was appointed secretary of the bank clerks' union. From 1925 he worked in the socialist education center, part-time he was education chairman of the free trade union apprenticeship section. After his return from captivity, Anton Proksch took him over to head the ÖGB education department, which he held until 1972. On the occasion of his 90th birthday in 1994, the ÖGB education department called the Franz Senghofer Symposium into being, at the first event of which the jubilee himself gave a lecture.

As education secretary of the ÖGB, Senghofer worked for many years in the management of the Vienna Volkstheater , developed a rich journalistic activity and founded, among other things, the national economic working group in the ÖGB, which in 1960 became the Dr. Benedikt Kautsky was born. In 1956 Senghofer received the Promotion Prize for Popular Education, the preliminary stage of the Austrian State Prize for Adult Education, and in 1958 the City of Vienna Prize for Popular Education .

Wilhelm Filla (ed.) Dedicated a commemorative publication to Senghofer in 1984 in the Vienna European Publishing House: Franz Senghofer - a life for workers' education , which, in addition to honoring the jubilee, also contains his autobiography and numerous articles.

Franz Senghofer was buried at the Ottakringer Friedhof .

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SURNAME Senghofer, Franz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian adult educator
DATE OF BIRTH October 18, 1904
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH February 23, 1998
Place of death Vienna