Abstract
This article deals with renewal of austrian universities in 1945-1955. The article focuses mainly on autonomy of universities in the post-war period.
It shows that after 1945 the traditional form of austrian universities, as it had been established in the second half of the 19th century, was renewed. The possibility of new beginning after 1945 was not accomplished.
The author finds the causes of this process in little interest in programmatic university policy on the side of the Allies as well as the austrian government. This fact enlarged the space for autonomous activities of the universities.
Return to the traditional form of the universities was determined by the way of the renewal of the university staff too. This renewal is demonstrated on the example of the personal structure of the staff of the University of Vienna and its academic senate.