Yugoslav School Chronology: Royal Yugoslavia (1918/23-41)



Figure 1.--Here we have a class portrait at what looks like a secondary school in Royal Yugoslavia. The class looks like the younger boys, but not the youngest in the school. We would say perhaps boys about 13-15 years old. It is a postcard-back portrait. It is undated, but looks like the 1930s to us. The bog in the center ho;ds a placard, but we cannot read it. We do not what part of Yugoslavia is involved.

Yugoslavia was organized around the serbian monarchy after the Allied victory in World War I. It took a few years to work out the cnstitutinal structures. Despite political differences with the Austrians and Germans, we believe that the education system in Serbia and the other entities that became Yugoslavia after world war I was strongly influenced by the Austrian/German system. This seems to be common throuhout the Balkans and Central Europe in part because of the influence of the German cultural sphere and the excellemce of German education. In addition, with the decline of Ottoman Power (19th century) large parts of Yugoslavia were controlled at some time by the Austrians or Austro-Hungarian Empire. We think that until World War II that the schools were largely operated by the constiuent parts of the federally organized country. We are unsure what kind of effort was made to create a national education system and enforce those standards on the provinces. Language rights were a major concern. Minority groups (motly Germans and Jews) had some rights to separate schools. We note, for example, a German school in Lazarevo located in Serbia during 1939. The German name of Lazarevo is Lazarfeld. Some secondary schools had uniform regulations, mostly for the girls. The boys rarely had uniforms, but commonly had peaked cadet caps like the ones common in Germany at the time.








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