Education Directorate for Vienna

Education Directorate for Vienna Austrian Authority
State level	Federal / State : Vienna
Position of the authority	Joint federal and state authority
At sight	Ministry of Education (currently: BMBWF)
founding	1922 (Federal Law Gazette No. 114/1922)
Headquarters	Vienna 1st , Wipplingerstraße 28
Authority management	Heinrich Himmer (Education Director )
Website	bildung-wien.gv.at

The Education Directorate for Vienna , until the end of 2018 City School Council for Vienna (SSR) , is an organ of the school authority. Education directorates also exist in the other eight federal states of Austria, until the end of 2018 these were referred to as state school councils.

organization

The Education Directorate for Vienna handles all matters of Art. 14 B-VG (with the exception of the kindergarten and after-school care system and central teaching institutions in the federal area of ​​competence, which fall under the enforcement competence of the federal states) and thus also the service law and the right of staff representation of both federal and state teachers as well as that of the other federal employees for public schools (with the exception of agricultural and forestry schools), as well as external school organization and school supervision. In order to ensure that the task of the Austrian school is fulfilled in a high-quality manner, quality assurance, school supervision and comprehensive education controlling also fall within the scope of duties.

The head of the authority is determined by the minister in agreement with the governor , therefore currently in Vienna with mayor Michael Ludwig . Heinrich Himmer , President of the City School Council for Vienna until the end of 2018 , has been the successor to Jürgen Czernohorszky , who was promoted to Education City Councilor , since 2017 .

Seat

Headquarters of the Education Directorate for Vienna in Wipplingerstraße

Former logo of the City School Council for Vienna, since the beginning of 2019 Education Directorate for Vienna in Wipplingerstraße

Palais Epstein, Dr.-Karl-Renner-Ring 1–3, side view. 1922–1938 and 1958–2001 it was the seat of the Vienna City School Council

Since March 2001, the seat of what is now the Vienna Education Directorate has been at Wipplingerstraße  28 in Vienna's Inner City . The state school board for Lower Austria was previously housed there, but in 1988 it moved to the new state capital St. Pölten . The move to the large building brought with it the possibility of adapting and merging the offices of the City School Council, which are distributed over six locations in Vienna.

Before that, Palais Epstein on Dr.-Karl-Renner-Ring had served as the official seat of the Vienna City School Board in the inter-war period and after the war. The incumbent president from 1922, Otto Glöckel , had made a name for himself as a school reformer in Red Vienna from 1919 to 1934.

history

The City School Council for Vienna was made possible with the constitutional process of separating Vienna from Lower Austria (see Separation Act ) on November 10, 1920 , and was established by the federal law of February 23, 1922. Until then, the state school board for Lower Austria, installed in 1868, was also responsible for Vienna, which belongs to the state.

Otto Glöckel , first executive president (at that time also called second president) under the mayors Jakob Reumann and Karl Seitz , created an authority on the basis of this law, which for Vienna was responsible for all agendas of the previous state and district school council. He had previously worked for school reform at the state level. From 1922 to 1934 he was able to implement many innovations in barely veiled opposition to the conservative Federal Ministry for Education as part of the Vienna school reform . He wanted to make Vienna a “model city”.

After the two dictatorships from 1934 to 1945, the city school council was re-established as a democratic body. Were in the Second Republic

• Leopold Kunschak (1945)
• Leopold Zechner (1945–1960)
• Max Neugebauer (1960–1969)
• Hermann Schnell (1969–1980)
• Hans Matzenauer (1980–1992)
• Kurt Scholz (1992-2001)
• Susanne Brandsteidl (2001-2015)
• Jürgen Czernohorszky (2015–2017) and
• Heinrich Himmer (from 2017, from 2019 Director of Education)

Acting President or from January 1, 2019 Director of Education.

Web links

Commons : Stadtschulrat für Wien  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• official homepage
• Education Directorate for Vienna. In: dasrotewien.at - Web dictionary of the Viennese social democracy. SPÖ Vienna (Ed.)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ orf.at: Czernohorsky starts as city school council president . Article dated December 9, 2015, accessed on January 15, 2016.
2. ^ State government and city senate Ludwig
3. ↑ Federal law of February 23, 1922, regarding the amendment of the School Supervision Act for Lower Austria. BGBl. No. 114/1922 (= p. 233 ff.) (EReader, ALEX Online ).
4. ↑ Austrian Parliament: Equal educational opportunities for all - the school reformers Otto Glöckel, Charlotte and Karl Bühler in the Palais Epstein
5. ^ Felix Czeike : Historisches Lexikon Wien , Volume 5, Kremayr & Scheriau, Vienna 1997, ISBN 3-218-00547-7 , p. 304
6. ↑ orf.at: Czernohorszky new city school council president , article from November 14, 2015, accessed November 15, 2015.
7. ↑ Press service: Archive report: Häupl presents Heinrich Himmer with the city school council decree . In: Press Service of the City of Vienna . February 16, 2017 ( wien.gv.at [accessed May 30, 2017]).
8. ↑ New city school council plans to reduce bureaucracy - wien.ORF.at. Retrieved May 30, 2017 .