Erziehung zur Feindschaft?

In 1933 and 1934, Austrian democracy was destroyed. The contribution asks whether the shaping of male youth by the school system of the late Habsburg monarchy formed authoritarian characters, neglected forms of democratic compromise and, as a consequence, favoured the coup d’état and establishment...

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Main Author: Peter Melichar
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Language:deu
Published: StudienVerlag 2023-01-01
Series:Österreichische Zeitschrift für Geschichtswissenschaften
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Online Access:https://journals.univie.ac.at/index.php/oezg/article/view/7798
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description In 1933 and 1934, Austrian democracy was destroyed. The contribution asks whether the shaping of male youth by the school system of the late Habsburg monarchy formed authoritarian characters, neglected forms of democratic compromise and, as a consequence, favoured the coup d’état and establishment of the Austro-fascist regime. Autobiographies serve as the main sources, although their narrative should not be confused with historical reality. The aim of the article is to examine their stylisations of the self, their secret wishes and sometimes justifications, with all their distortions. When viewed as a collective corpus, these texts reveal patterns that are worth analysing. School turned out to be a regime of boredom and testing; the teachers were helpless subjects who passed on their own adaptation to the regime to pupils through distance, dressage, beating, correction, and control. Schools, especially secondary schools, were identified as a danger to the reorganisation of the state in 1933. There was a fear of an overproduction of educated people, especially educated women, for whom the new state had no use.
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spelling doaj.art-26ff07029f0e4ab6b4c8d9b03a6c961d2023-03-01T08:24:50ZdeuStudienVerlagÖsterreichische Zeitschrift für Geschichtswissenschaften1016-765X2707-966X2023-01-0133210.25365/oezg-2022-33-2-8Erziehung zur Feindschaft? Peter Melichar0vorarlberg museum, Bregenz In 1933 and 1934, Austrian democracy was destroyed. The contribution asks whether the shaping of male youth by the school system of the late Habsburg monarchy formed authoritarian characters, neglected forms of democratic compromise and, as a consequence, favoured the coup d’état and establishment of the Austro-fascist regime. Autobiographies serve as the main sources, although their narrative should not be confused with historical reality. The aim of the article is to examine their stylisations of the self, their secret wishes and sometimes justifications, with all their distortions. When viewed as a collective corpus, these texts reveal patterns that are worth analysing. School turned out to be a regime of boredom and testing; the teachers were helpless subjects who passed on their own adaptation to the regime to pupils through distance, dressage, beating, correction, and control. Schools, especially secondary schools, were identified as a danger to the reorganisation of the state in 1933. There was a fear of an overproduction of educated people, especially educated women, for whom the new state had no use. https://journals.univie.ac.at/index.php/oezg/article/view/7798autobiographyeducationeducation policypedagogyauthoritydictatorship
spellingShingle Peter Melichar
Erziehung zur Feindschaft?
Österreichische Zeitschrift für Geschichtswissenschaften
autobiography
education
education policy
pedagogy
authority
dictatorship
title Erziehung zur Feindschaft?
title_full Erziehung zur Feindschaft?
title_fullStr Erziehung zur Feindschaft?
title_full_unstemmed Erziehung zur Feindschaft?
title_short Erziehung zur Feindschaft?
title_sort erziehung zur feindschaft
topic autobiography
education
education policy
pedagogy
authority
dictatorship
url https://journals.univie.ac.at/index.php/oezg/article/view/7798
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