Democratic Youth Association of Berlin

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Statute of the DJV (1947)

The Democratic Youth Association of Berlin (DJV) was founded in 1947 by the liberal Eduard Grosse and his friends from various political camps, u. a. Harald H. Müller (CDU), Eberhard Grashoff (SPD) founded as a counter-organization to the communism- oriented FDJ (Free German Youth).

The founding paper states:

“As a result of discussions among young Berliners, a working group of girls and boys was formed in the winter of 1945/46, which in the course of 1946 worked out the draft statutes for a youth association. [...] This youth association, which we as its young founders consciously called the 'Democratic Youth Association', draws the conclusions from the experience of the last twelve years and strives for a synthesis of the promotion of the interests of the individual youth and their education to an independent personality, as well as from the tasks that result from the preparation of the young person for his later life as a free citizen of a democratic republic. It is intended to prevent undemocratic, dogmatic influences within the younger generation of our country from bringing about the failure of the civilized democratic development that is just beginning. "

The goals of the association are:

  • Work, education and recreation for all young people without any class or race differences.
  • Promotion of the young people's feeling of togetherness through the formation of working and interest groups.
  • Establishing and maintaining friendly relations with young people from peaceful peoples.

After the GDR was founded in 1949, the Falken , the Bund Deutscher Jugend and the DJV also existed in East Berlin alongside the state youth organization FDJ . On October 14, 1952 it came to self-dissolution.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Democratic Youth Association Berlin (DJV): Principles. Aims. Tasks. Statutes, Berlin-Tempelhof 1947, p. 2.
  2. ↑ Democratic Youth Association Berlin (DJV): Principles. Aims. Tasks. Statutes, Berlin-Tempelhof 1947, p. 3.
  3. ↑ http://www.museum-digital.de/berlin/index.php?t=objekt&oges=751