!!!Studentenorganisationen

Student Organisations: 1) political student organisations: All 
Austrian university students are represented by the Austrian  National 
Union of Students, founded in 1845. Its all-Austrian central committee 
(65 members, elected every 2 years) is made up of 8 political groups 
(1997). Most important of these are the Aktionsgemeinschaft (AG, 
conservative tendency), the Verband der Sozialistischen Studentinnen 
und Studenten Oesterreichs (VSStOe) and the Gruene & Alternative 
StudentInnen (GRAS). The Junge Europaeische Studenteninitiative (JES, 
conservative), third-strongest group in 1985, has since then 
continuously declined. The Ring Freiheitlicher Studenten, for a long 
time second-strongest group and largely made up of members of 
national-freedomite students´ associations, has become 
insignificant.

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Student representation at a secondary school level is mainly effected 
by the Union Hoeherer Schueler (UHS, founded in 1973) and the Aktion 
kritischer Schueler (AKS, originally established as an initiative of 
pupils in Upper Austria around 1976, organised on a federal level 
since approx. 1983).

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2) student organisations of the churches: Katholische Hochschuljugend 
(KHJ). The Katholische Hochschulgemeinden (diocesan institutions) are 
frequented by the Katholische Hochschuljugend as well as by 
non-organised students and are responsible for a number of 
students´ halls of residence and university cafeterias. The 
Marianische Studentenkongregationen (MK) is organised by Jesuits; the 
Gemeinschaft christlichen Lebens (GCL) is a branch of the MK. Another 
student organisation affiliated to a church is the Evangelische 
Hochschuljugend.

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3) associations ("corporations"): Austria has a total of 500 
student associations, about 300 of which are organised at secondary 
school level; the 200 academic associations are oriented along various 
lines. An association consists of active members (students; aspirants 
are called "Fuechse", full members are known as 
"Burschen") and senior members (graduates). Students can 
only join while they are still undergraduates. The oldest Austrian 
association is the Corps Saxonia Wien (since 1850). The first 
associations for female students were established before World War I 
and then again since 1977 (oldest: Puellaria Arminiae, Hollabrunn 
1977); there is a total of approx. 20 female associations and only a 
few mixed ones. The best-known associations are: a) denominational:  
Cartellverband (44 associations), Kartellverband katholischer 
nichtfarbentragender akademischer Verbindungen (OeKV, 15 
associations), Akademischer Bund katholischer oesterreichischer 
Landsmannschaften (KOeL, 9 associations), Ring katholischer 
akademischer Burschenschaften in Oesterreich (RKAB, 3 associations), 
Wingolf, Schwarzburgund, Schweizer Studentenverein (Helvetia 
Oenipontana Innsbruck), Vereinigung christlicher farbentragender 
Studentinnen in Oesterreich (VCS, 3 associations),  
Mittelschueler-Kartell-Verband (165 associations), Verband 
farbentragender Maedchen (VfM, 9 associations). - b) 
national-freedomite (only some of which practice duelling):  
Burschenschaft (30 associations), Koesener Senioren-Convents-Verband 
(KSCV, 17 corps in Austria), Coburger Convent der Landsmannschaften 
und Turnerschaften (CC, 5 in Austria), Saengerschaften (5 
associations), Akademische Turnvereine (5 associations), and 2 
associations of female students (Vienna and Graz), Oesterreichischer 
Pennaeler-Ring (OePR, approx. 80 associations).

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Approx. 60 associations have their own houses, usually used as 
students´ hall of residence.

!Literature
P. Krause (ed.), Studiosus Austriacus. Handbuch des 
oesterreichischen Korporationswesens, %%sup 3/%1982; G. Hartmann, Der 
CV in Oesterreich, 1994.


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