Youth object

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Youth object from electronics workers, 1977

City express "Florence on the Elbe" as an FDJ youth object on the Deutsche Reichsbahn

Set of stamps from 1979 FDJ initiative Berlin

As a youth project were referred to in the GDR a form of limited time, a youth collective tasks assigned, which often from above, so by the governing bodies of the SED or the youth organization FDJ initiated, organized and often ideologically oriented and justified, but exactly measurable and billable was (see also youth brigade ). These tasks could arise from the fields of industry , agriculture , construction , science , teaching and research or education in general. However, the main focus was usually on fulfilling the national economic plan. In addition to the large central youth properties, each state-owned company (VEB), each agricultural production cooperative (LPG), and even each administrative unit, had its own youth properties. In 1974, for example, a total of 854,912 young people worked on 68,370 youth projects.

The most famous youth objects were:

• 1949 Construction of a water pipe for the Maxhütte in Unterwellenborn in Thuringia (under the slogan "Max needs water")
• 1949 to 1952 construction of the Sosa and Cranzahl dams in the Ore Mountains in Saxony
• 1959 to 1962 Expansion of the central airport Berlin-Schönefeld
• 1958-1962 reclamation and drainage ( amelioration ) of Swipe in Saxony-Anhalt and Friedlander Great Meadow in Ferdinandshof in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern
• 1967 Construction of the North Nuclear Power Plant (now: Greifswald 1) near Lubmin in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania
• 1974 establishment of a fragment of the natural gas pipeline Druzhba (dt .: friendship) between Kremenchug and Bar in Ukraine (colloquially referred to only as "route" or "Druzhba route")
• 1976 to 1990 Central youth project "FDJ-Initiative Berlin " - at the Xth parliament of the FDJ decided project for the further development of the capital of the GDR. The focus of the measure, which was originally planned until 1987, was on the field of housing construction .
• 1982 to 1990 Central youth property " Erdgastrasse "
• 1982 Central youth object route electrification , overhead line construction for the Deutsche Reichsbahn , 1000th kilometer reached on April 12, 1986 in Bad Kleinen , 2000th kilometer on September 30, 1989 in Cottbus