!!!Zentralstelle für das Bildungswesen

Zentralstelle fuer das Bildungswesen (also "sozialistische 
Arbeiterbildungszentrale"/"Socialist Workers' Educational 
Headquarters"), educational organisation of the Sozial-demokratische 
Arbeiterpartei (Social Democratic Workers' Party) and, later, the SPOe 
(Austrian Social Democratic Party). Between 1891/1908 and 1934 the 
Zentralstelle fuer das Bildungswesen was the highest level of the 
Austrian workers' educational system ( Arbeiterbildungsvereine 
(workers' educational societies)), whose activities were not only 
directed towards the Social Democratic Party but also to the free 
trade unions, consumer cooperatives and chambers of labour. It 
published the magazine "Bildungsarbeit - Blaetter fuer das 
sozialistische Bildungswesen" (Educational Work - Journal for the 
Socialist Educational System); its secretaries were R.  Danneberg and 
J.  Luitpold. After 1945 the organisation was re-established within 
the SPOe Central Secretariat and maintained educational committees in 
provincial and district organisations and hostels in Vienna and Baden. 
When a federal law on the foundation of  Political Academies was 
passed in 1973, the organisation was dissolved and the Dr.-Karl-Renner 
Institute was founded to provide basic training and further education 
for officials, party members and delegates of the SPOe. Apart from the 
central institute in Vienna there is one provincial office in each 
federal province. For political matters, there is still an educational 
organisation with a federal educational secretariat and educational 
committees in the party's provincial, district, and local 
organisations.

!Literature
J. Weidenholzer, Auf dem Weg zum "Neuen 
Menschen", %%sup 2/%1983.


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