Reich youth

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The Reichsjugend was the youth organization of the Socialist Reich Party, which was banned in 1952 .

history

The Reichsjugend was founded in January 1950 by Herbert Münchow and Walter Matthaei in Flensburg. Münchow was excluded from the organization in the fall of 1950 because of being too close to the Hitler Youth and thereupon founded the German Reich Youth . An application for admission to the German Federal Youth Council was not dealt with in autumn 1951. Also in autumn 1951 the Reichsjugend split from the Socialist Reich Party after internal disputes between their leader Matthaei.

On October 23, 1952, the Reichsjugend was banned by the Federal Constitutional Court as a part of the Socialist Reich Party, despite the previous separation from the party . After the ban, the remaining groups of Reichsjugend around Matthaei joined forces on December 2, 1952 with the Fatherland Youth Association and parts of the German Unitarian Youth to form the Wiking Youth , which was also banned in 1994 .

construction

In the opinion of the Federal Constitutional Court, the Reichsjugend was based on the model of the Hitler Youth, and the uniforms, with the exception of the shirt color, also corresponded to the model of the Hitler Youth.

The Hitler Youth aimed at children and young people 10 to 21 years by mid-1951 older members should in the realm front , the security service of the Socialist Reich Party, change, after separation from the mother party founded Matthaei instead the Empire Medal .

In mid-1951, groups of the Reichsjugend existed mainly in rural regions of Lower Saxony and Schleswig-Holstein , the number of members was unknown because of the low level of organization of the Reichsjugend. The members were at this time to self-report the Reich Youth from all walks of life . At the time of the ban, the management personnel were recruited from among others 700 Hitler Youth leaders.

Content

As in the Hitler Youth, the main goal of the Reichsjugend was the ideological training of its members in accordance with the National Socialist party program of the Socialist Reich Party. This was supplemented by program elements such as tent camps or folk dance that were also taken over from the Hitler Youth . In addition, the Reich Youth took part in events of the mother party and in anti-communist rallies.

Other organizations of the same name

The term Reichsjugend was picked up several times by other right-wing extremist youth organizations:

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Herbert Münchow . In: Der Spiegel . No. 50 , 1950, pp. 33 ( online ).
  2. ↑ Why defensive? In: Up: Youth magazine of the German Federation of Trade Unions . tape  4 , no. 25/26 , December 13, 1951 ( online [accessed September 6, 2008]).
  3. ↑ a b c Decision BVerfGE 2, 1 - SRP ban .
  4. ↑ Franziska Hundseder : Militante Pimpfe and Jungmädel . In: Die Zeit , No. 14/1988
  5. ↑ For young people over 21 years of age . In: Der Spiegel . No. 40 , 1951, pp. 44 ( online ).
  6. ↑ Paul Hühnerfeld: But what do the boys think? In: Die Zeit , No. 24/1951
  7. ↑ Peter Bruges: Right off to the fatherland . In: Der Spiegel . No. 24 , 1967, p. 105 ( online ).
  8. ^ Tight posture in a new uniform . In: Social Democratic Press Service . No.  95 , April 24, 1951, pp. 4 ( PDF ).
  9. ↑ Benno Hafeneger, Michael Buddrus: Military training in East and West. Volume 4. Post-War and Fifties . Brandes & Apsel, Frankfurt am Main 1994, ISBN 3-86099-242-2 , p. 70 ff .