Josef Enslein

Josef Enslein (born March 8, 1870 in Vienna ; † January 5, 1952 there ) was an Austrian teacher and politician ( SPÖ ).

Life

Josef Enslein was an orphan and grew up in an orphanage. He attended the teacher training college in St. Pölten and initially worked as a teacher in orphanages and elementary schools in Vienna. There he became a member of Karl Seitz's young teacher movement and, together with him, published the magazine The Free Teachers' Voices. Together with Otto Glöckel and Ludo Hartmann, he was one of the founders of the Central Association of Teachers in Vienna and the Free School Association . As director of a school run by this association since 1905, he was able to try out new teaching methods and do pioneering work for Glöckel's school reform, which was later implemented in the 1920s.

In 1919 Enslein became chairman of the Viennese teaching staff and also vice-president of the association of municipal employees. He was a member of the City School Council for Vienna and retired in 1926.

Already at an advanced age, Enslein became Undersecretary of State for a few months in 1945 (corresponds to a current State Secretary) in the State Office for Public Enlightenment, Education, Education and Cultural Affairs in the Provisional State Government of Renner , where he initiated the reorganization of compulsory education.

He was buried in an honorary grave at the Vienna Central Cemetery .

In 1950 he was made a citizen of the City of Vienna , and in 1953 Josef-Enslein-Platz in Vienna- Favoriten was named after him.

literature

• Felix Czeike: Historical Lexicon Vienna Vol. 2 . Kremayr & Scheriau, Vienna 1993

Web links

• Josef Enslein. In: dasrotewien.at - Web dictionary of the Viennese social democracy. SPÖ Vienna (Ed.)
• Josef Enslein on the website of the Austrian Parliament

Individual evidence

1. ^ Josef Enslein grave site , Vienna, Central Cemetery, Group 13, Group Extension B, Row 4, No. 9.