Wolfgang Speiser

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Vienna Central Cemetery - honor grave of Paul and Wolfgang Speiser

Wolfgang Speiser (born September 20, 1909 in Vienna ; † May 27, 1994 ibid) was an Austrian lawyer and adult educator.

Life

Wolfgang Speiser was born as the son of Paul Speiser .

Wolfgang Speiser studied law at the University of Vienna and graduated in 1933 with a Dr. jur. from. During the time of Austrofascism he defended social democrats in court, including Bruno Kreisky . When Austria joined Hitler's Germany, he emigrated to Australia and returned to Vienna in 1946.

Wolfgang Speiser was director of the Vienna Urania from 1947 to 1961 and from February 1, 1947 worked as the central secretary of the Vienna adult education centers. From 1950 to 1974 he was the general secretary of the Association of Austrian Adult Education Centers that was co-initiated .

In 1964 Speiser became Vice President of the European Bureau for Adult Education .

Speiser is considered a pioneer and doyen of the adult education centers in Austria after 1945 and set new accents with contemporary history and political education . He developed the collaboration between popular education and the new medium of television. He was involved in the adoption of the Adult Education Promotion Act (1973).

Awards

Publications

  • Australia - today. Wiener Volksbuchverlag, Vienna 1950, 191 pages.
  • Ten years of free popular education in Vienna. Association of Wiener Volksbildung, Vienna 1957, 24 pages.
  • Paul Speiser and the Red Vienna . Jugend und Volk, Vienna Munich 1979, ISBN 3-7141-6549-5 .
  • Viennese public education after 1945. Writings on adult education in Austria, Volume 23, Österreichischer Bundesverlag, Vienna 1982, ISBN 3-215-04792-6 .
  • The socialist students of Vienna 1927–1938. Foreword by Heinz Fischer . Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for the History of the Labor Movement, Europaverlag, Vienna 1986, ISBN 3-203-50949-0 .

literature

  • Wolfgang Speiser. Contemporary witness. Pp. 907-914. In: Friedrich Stadler (Ed.): Displaced reason. Emigration and exile of Austrian science. 2 vols. Jugend und Volk, Vienna-Munich 1987/88; unchanged new edition: Lit, Münster-Hamburg-Berlin-Vienna-London 2004, ISBN 3-8258-7372-2 (Volume 1) / ISBN 3-8258-7373-0 (Volume 2.1) / ISBN 3-8258-7373-0 (Volume 2.2).
  • Christian Stifter: Brief description of the sources on the life and work of Wolfgang Speiser. Pp. 117-132. In: Volker Otto, Erhard Schlutz (ed.): Adult education and emigration. Biographies and effects of emigrants. German Adult Education Association , Bonn 1999.
  • Christian H. Stifter: The cultural and educational work of the present forms the people of the future. On the life and work of Wolfgang Speiser (1909–1994). In: Hessische Blätter für Volksbildung , Vol. 56, 2006, Issue 1, pp. 43–50.

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personal data
SURNAME Speiser, Wolfgang
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian adult educator
DATE OF BIRTH September 20, 1909
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH May 27, 1994
Place of death Vienna