Working Group on New Democratic Youth Associations
The Working Group New Democratic Youth Associations (ANDJ) was created in February 1991 as a merger of originally five youth associations, one of which, the German Esperanto Youth , was a cross-border youth association that was equally active in Western and Eastern Europe before German reunification in the Federal Republic as well as - less formal - existed in the GDR , and the other four emerged on the territory of the GDR, which was in upheaval, immediately after the fall of the Berlin Wall and the concession to found further youth associations alongside the state organization FDJ . The association with the largest number of members of these four newly founded GDR was the youth network Lambda - Young Lesbians and Gays , which quickly expanded to the west, where young lesbians and gays existed alike but had not been organized as a youth association until then.
The working group New Democratic Youth Associations thus continued the work of the "Round Table of Youth" in the GDR, which was founded in November 1989 and, in addition to the five later ANDJ member associations, also included other youth groups from the GDR that emerged directly after the fall of the Berlin Wall in the context of German reunification either quickly merged into West German partner associations (such as the Jusos or Young Liberals ) or dissolved a few months after their founding due to the social changes in the new federal states .
In February 1990, the “new” youth associations of the “Round Table of Youth” occupied the previous FDJ Central Council building at Unter den Linden 36-38, the Zollernhof in Berlin-Mitte , where the ANDJ also had its headquarters after its establishment . In April 1991 the ANDJ became a member association, in October 1993 at its own request it became a connection association in the German Federal Youth Association (DBJR). In the same time frame, three of the five member associations gradually dissolved, so that from 1993 to 2011 the working group consisted only of the two member associations Deutsche Esperanto-Jugend and Jugendnetzwerk Lambda , who, despite their different focus of work, had decided to jointly represent in the bodies of the German Federal Youth Association stay. In 2011 the Lambda youth network also left the working group and became an independent affiliate of the German Federal Youth Association. As a result, the ANDJ went out; the German Esperanto youth is more represented in the DBJR.
Web links
- Brief information on the website of the Federal Youth Council
- Internet presence of the German Esperanto Youth