Students and teachers as political actors in the 19th and 20th centuries

1848–2009

Teachers and students of the University of Vienna acted as political actors in manifold ways during the 19th and 20th centuries.

Sitzstreik Wiener Studierender vor dem Unterrichtsministerium gegen die Erhöhung der Studiengebühren

Glossary terms

Deutsche Studentenschaft (DSt) Austrofaschismus Burschenschaft

Authors

Katharina Kniefacz

Last updated

11.04.2026

Versioned citation link

https://geschichte-v2026.visuelles.xyz/en/node/24846/revisions/36920/view

Literature and printed sources

Gary B. Cohen, Expansion and the Limits of Inclusion: The Students of the Vienna University, 1860–1914. In: Universität – Politik – Gesellschaft, edited by Mitchell G. Ash, Josef Ehmer, 505-528 (Göttingen 2015), online at http://www.vr-elibrary.de/doi/pdf/10.14220/9783737004138.505.

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Stefan Heissenberger, Viola Mark, Susanne Schramm, Peter Sniesko, Uni Brennt. Grundsätzliches – Kritisches – Atmosphärisches (Wien and Berlin 2010).

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Heinz Fischer, Einer Im Vordergrund: Taras Borodajkewycz. Eine Dokumentation (Wien 1966).

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