Youth League Adler

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The Adler Youth Association (JBA) was a right-wing extremist youth association founded in the Federal Republic of Germany in 1950 . The founding member of the Kameradschaftsring Nationaler Jugendverbände had around 2000 members around 1960, making it one of the largest right-wing extremist youth associations. Like numerous other right-wing extremist youth associations, the Adler youth association lost its importance around 1970, although in 1972 it joined the Freedom Council initiated by Gerhard Frey .

history

The Adler youth association was founded in 1950 by Richard Etzel , a former area leader of the Hitler Youth . In 1947 Etzel was a co-founder of the German bloc , whose unofficial youth organization became the Adler youth association. In 1954, the Adler youth association, together with the Wiking youth and the Austrian youth association “Heimattreuer Jugend”, founded the Association of National Youth Associations. The Adler Youth Association left this umbrella organization in 1959 because, in contrast to the other member associations , it advocated rearming and binding the Federal Republic of Germany to the West .

In 1961, the Federal Ministry of the Interior issued a uniform ban against the Adler youth association under Section 3 of the Assembly Act , as the association did not serve to care for young people .

Shortly after it was founded, the Adler youth association is said to have had 5,000 members; by 1960 it had around 2,000 members. The regional focus was on Northern Germany and Bavaria. In 1966 the organization still had 800 members, according to its own information, while the security authorities at that time assumed only 150 members.

In the 1970s, Etzel tried to revive the Adler youth association by integrating it into the apron structures of the German People's Union . In 1970 the youth association took part in the resistance campaign . Etzel joined his association to the working group of people's loyal associations and in 1972 he joined the Freedom Council initiated by Gerhard Frey ; At the end of the 1970s he left this again. Individual activities of the Adler youth association are documented up to 1980, its magazines appeared until 1992; The association is registered at the Munich District Court (VR 5521) to the present day .

ideology

In 1966, the Adler Youth Association positioned itself opposite the Spiegel "between the Hitler Youth and the Boy Scouts". In his policy statement, he declared to work on a "non-partisan and non-denominational basis". An authoritarian and elitist worldview determined his aggressive nationalist ideology. Internally it was organized according to the Fiihrer-allegiance principle , its forms were based on the ethnic groups of the Bündische Jugend and the Hitlerjugend.

Activities included home evenings used for ideological training, memorial services for soldiers killed in the world wars, and pre-military training known as " journeys and camps " .

symbolism

Bundeszeichen des Jugendbundes Adler was a "falling black eagle on a white surface in a red-bordered shield". The falling eagle was taken from the badge of the paratroopers of the Wehrmacht , the color scheme black-white-red corresponded to the imperial colors of the German Reich . Before the uniform ban of 1961, the uniform consisted of a silver-gray shirt and a black scarf with a white stripe, with black shorts or a black bell skirt .

Publications

The Adler Jugendbund published the magazine Der Adlerführer from 1952 to 1992 . Journal of the leadership of the Adler youth league , aimed at the group leaders. The newsletter Our work. Journal for the circle of parents and friends (EFK) of the Adler youth association. V. appeared from 1953 to 1992. There were also regional membership magazines, such as the Adler der Nordmark for the north German groups from 1957 to 1959.

literature

  • Benno Hafeneger, Michael Buddrus: Military Education in East and West: Post-War Period and Fifties. Brandes & Apsel, Frankfurt am Main 1994, ISBN 3-86099-242-2 .
  • Jens Mecklenburg (Hrsg.): Handbook of German right-wing extremism. Elefanten-Press, Berlin 1996, ISBN 3-88520-585-8 , p. 168.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Holy Word . In: Der Spiegel . No. 13 , 1966, pp. 112 ( online ).
  2. ^ Richard Stöss: The extreme right in the Federal Republic of Germany. Westdeutscher Verlag, Opladen 1989, ISBN 3-531-12124-3 , p. 132.
  3. ↑ Uwe Backes, Eckhard Jesse: Political Extremism in the Federal Republic of Germany. Volume 1. Verlag Wissenschaft un Politik, Cologne 1989, ISBN 3-8046-8695-8 , p. 72.
  4. ^ Richard Stöss: The extreme right in the Federal Republic of Germany. Westdeutscher Verlag, Opladen 1989, ISBN 3-531-12124-3 , p. 185.
  5. ^ Benno Hafeneger, Michael Buddrus: Military Education in East and West: Post-War Period and the Fifties. Brandes & Apsel, Frankfurt am Main 1994, ISBN 3-86099-242-2 , p. 47 f.
  6. ^ Peter Dudek, Hans-Gerd Jaschke: youth right outside. pädagogik-extra-Buchverlag, Bensheim 1982, ISBN 3-88704-018-X , p. 52.
  7. ↑ Wind eggs in the eagle's nest . In: Die Zeit , No. 10/1958.
  8. ↑ The Eagle Leader . Memmingen 1952-1992, ZDB ID 140003-4 .
  9. ↑ Our work . Marburg / Lahn 1953–1992, ZDB ID 9881-4 .