!!!Tesarek, Anton

b. Vienna, Sept. 1, 1896, 
d. Vienna, Nov. 20, 1977, educator and Social Democratic politician. 
1925 founded the Social Democratic youth organization  "Rote Falken"; 
concerned himself with education in kindergartens and day nurseries 
and fought against discrimination in the field of education resulting 
from social disadvantages. After 1934 in "protective custody", from 
1938 in a concentration camp; after 1945 directed the youth welfare 
office in Vienna. Member of the managing board of the Kinderfreunde 
organisation and president of the International Falcon Movement 
(Sozialistische Erziehungsinternationale; IFM-SEI).

!Publications
Feste der Arbeiterkinder, 1947; Zur Problematik der 
sozialist. Erziehung, 1952.



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