Young European student initiative
On the initiative of Vincenz Liechtenstein , Carina Rys, Wulf G. Hauser and Peter Sassmann, the Young European Student Initiative ( JES ) was founded as a sub-organization of the Paneuropean Union in 1974 as a conservative and European response to the left-wing revolutionary student movement.
Thanks to the university-political successes, which are mainly due to the service-oriented offers, the JES moved into the central committee with four mandates in 1975, after only a few months of its existence, and was able to increase its initial success to seven in 1977 under the leadership of Carina Rys Mandates, under the leadership of Rainer Stephan in 1979 to eleven mandates (14% of the votes cast) and under the leadership of Philipp Hartig in 1981 to 16 mandates.
1979-80 followed a phase of intensive ideological work. Public discussions against the deadline solution were held at all Austrian universities . Internally, the main emphasis was mainly on ideological basic training.
In 1981, after a stay in Vienna, the Bern German studies student Vinzenz Bartlome founded the Swiss JES , which had groups in Bern , Freiburg , Zurich , St. Gallen and Aargau . It drew attention to itself with a large-scale Marxism seminar and forced the CVP to discuss a conservative basic program. After the JES-Südtirol , it was the second step across the borders. The JES-Trient followed as the third and JES-Germany as the fourth step.
From 1981 to 1983, the JES took over the chairmanship of the student body at the University of Vienna and the Vienna University of Economics and Business, and in 1985, under the leadership of Carl-Albrecht Waldstein, achieved its greatest election success to date with 21% nationwide. In addition, she won at the Vienna University of Economics and at the Faculty of Law , the absolute majority .
From this point on, the electoral successes of the JES steadily decreased. In 1995, JES was still represented by two mandataries in the Austrian Students' Union , but in 1999 it left the federal representation.
In 2007, the JES was re-established on the initiative of Venzel Czernin and achieved a voting result of 3.5% at the University of Vienna under Bernhard Grubmüller's top candidate.
She did not run for the 2015 ÖH elections.
literature
- JES student initiative: 10 years of JES, 1984
- Austrian Students Union: ÖH 60 years, special issue 2/2006-A,
- Johannes Graf: The Young European Student Initiative (JES). in: Robert Rill / Ulrich E. cellsberg (ed.): Conservatism in Austria. Movements, ideas, people and associations from the beginning until today. Leopold Stocker Verlag, Graz-Stuttgart 1999 ISBN 3-7020-0860-8 pp. 313-324