Otto Glöckel
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, Lower Austria
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- July 23, 1935, Vienna
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) social-democratic politician and school-reformer during the First Austrian Republic
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. First Minister of Education during the First Austrian Republic from April 1919 to October 1920.
Otto Glöckel's Achievements:
- Women were granted the right to enter university.
- Religious education was no longer compulsory ("Glöckel Erlass", 10th of April 1919)
- Schools started to be organized in a democratic way (introduction of form and school representatives (??))
- The first comprehensive schools were established in Austria