preparation course in a boarding school lasting 1 year in an ABF (Arbeiter- undBauernFakultät; Workers and Farmers College). While everyone could visit the
education, were supported by having a college preparation institute (Arbeiter-und-Bauern-Fakultät (ABF) "Wilhelm Pieck"). In the aftermath of German reunification
1948/49 to the ABF (literally "Workers and Farmers Faculty" / "Arbeiter-und-Bauern-Fakultät") at Chemnitz and Leipzig universities. Then he studied Social
Weitzendorf first went to the preliminary studies department Arbeiter-und-Bauern-Fakultät [de] in Halle. He then studied choral conducting at the Hochschule
labourer before graduating from the Workers' and Farmers' College (Arbeiter- undBauern-Fakultät) of Leipzig in 1960, and then completed a teaching degree in