Friendship (greeting)
“Friendship” is a greeting among socialists , social democrats and communists that has existed since the 19th or early 20th century. Similar to “ Glückauf ”, “friendship” is also used generally by workers.
The inhabitants of the Soviet Union initially used it in German until the attack on the Soviet Union (1941), from then on it was translated into Russian : Дружба (Druzhba).
Before Austria was annexed to the German Reich in 1938, those who rejected the National Socialists and instead hoped that Chancellor Kurt Schuschnigg would lean on the social democratic workers greeted each other with a "friendship" greeting .
It was also the greeting of the FDJ in the GDR with which one greeted each other at the beginning of an FDJ meeting or a flag roll call (for example by the meeting leader with “I greet you with the greeting of the Free German Youth: Friendship!” Or “FDJler : Friendship! ", To which the collective replied" Friendship ").
In addition, “friendship!” Is also the greeting of the SJD falcons .
The play friendship. A totally political private matter by Erwin Steinhauer , Rupert Henning and Florian Scheuba won the Austrian Cabaret Prize in 2004 and alludes to its use in Austrian social democracy. " Friendship! The Free German Youth ”is the title of a documentary film ( ARD / WDR / NDR / rbb ) by Lutz Hachmeister and Mathias von der Heide about the history of the FDJ, which was awarded the German Television Prize in 2009.
See also
- Friendship! (Film title)
- Druzhba pipeline
- Druzhba route
Sources and Notes
- ^ The persecution and murder of European Jews by National Socialist Germany 1933–1945 , Volume 2: German Reich 1938 - August 1939 , edited by Susanne Heim . Oldenbourg. Munich 2009, p. 119.