Bell decree
The Glöckel decree of April 10, 1919 designates a decree named after the Austrian social democratic politician Otto Glöckel , which was in force during the period of the First Austrian Republic until 1933. The decree abolished the obligation to religious exercises ( school prayer ) and participation in religious education for students and teachers.
Wording and repeal
The text of the decree:
“Basically, Art. 14, Paragraph 3 of the St.GG of December 21, 1867 , RGBl. No. 142, on the general rights of citizens, I think it is necessary to order that all medium-sized educational institutions subordinate to the State Office for Internal Affairs and Education are forbidden from any compulsion to participate in religious exercises. Failure to take part in a religious exercise must not affect the student's classification.
Likewise, at public elementary schools and at the Biirgerschulen any compulsion to accounts in the direction indicated so far nationwide legal requirements are met. The provisions of §§ 10, 63, 74 and 191 of the school and teaching regulations, insofar as they relate to religious exercises, become invalid. "
Under the government of Engelbert Dollfuss , the decree was repealed on April 10, 1933 by Minister of Education Anton Rintelen .
See also
literature
- Otto Glöckel: drill school, learning school, work school . Publishing house of the Social Democratic Party, Vienna 1928
- The Austrian school reform. Some statements in the fight against the spoilers . Verlag Wiener Volksbuchhandlung, Vienna 1923.
- Franz Buchegger: Otto Glöckel as a member of the government 1918–1920 . Dissertation at the University of Vienna, 1981
Web links
- Abolition of the compulsion to do religious exercises. In: Wiener Zeitung , April 12, 1919, p. 2 (online at ANNO ).
- (anti-Semitic) reaction of the Christian social groups No obligation to do religious exercises. In: Reichspost , April 12, 1919, p. 3 (online at ANNO ).
- Obligatory religious exercises in schools. In: Wiener Zeitung , April 16, 1933, p. 4 (online at ANNO ).
Individual evidence
- ^ Reichs-Gesetz-Blatt für das Kaiserthum Oesterreich - Year 1867: p. 396: Staatsgrundgesetz of December 21, 1867 - Article 14, third (and last) paragraph (top)
- ↑ Reichsgesetzblatt for the kingdoms and states represented in the Reichsrat - year 1905, p. 401 : No. 159. Ordinance of the Ministry of Culture and Education of September 29, 1905, which enacts definitive school and teaching regulations for general elementary schools and for civic schools . (§ 10: p. 402 ; § 63: p. 409 ; § 74: p. 411 , § 191: p. 428 )
- ↑ Erik Adam: The school and educational policy of the Austrian social democracy in the First Republic. Development and history . Österreichischer Bundesverlag, Vienna 1983, ISBN 3-215-04423-4 , p. 301.