Young Greens (Austria)

Young greens
Federal spokeswoman	Sarah Pansy
Federal Managing Director	Lukas Wurzinger
founding	2010
Place of foundation	Vienna
resolution	2018
Headquarters	Vienna
International connections	Global Young Greens (GYG), Federation of Young European Greens (FYEG)
Website	Junge-gruene.at (website no longer online)

The Young Greens were a political youth organization of the Greens in Austria. You were a member of the global umbrella association of green youth organizations Global Young Greens , the European parent organization FYEG and the Austrian Federal Youth Council .

At the 9th Federal Congress at the end of July 2017, Sarah Pansy was elected as spokeswoman and a new managing director, after the former federal spokeswoman Flora Petrik and the rest of the federal board announced that they would make room for a new team due to internal controversies .

In the 2017 National Council election , the Federal Congress of the Young Greens spoke out in favor of supporting the broad, left-wing interactive platform PLUS and their joint election as KPÖ PLUS .

In June 2018, the Young Greens merged at a joint federal congress with the Jugendverband Junge Linke , whose name was retained for the new organization.

Principles

Its principles, which were laid down in the statutes, were: solidarity , anti-nationality, ecology , feminism , anti-fascism , equality , non-violence , self-determination and grass-roots democracy .

Political positions

In terms of content, the Young Greens were based on the former parent party Die Grünen - The Green Alternative , but they also differ in some areas. The relationship was characterized as "friendly-critical". With regard to some actions, the Greens also distanced themselves from their youth organization at the time.

Some important subject areas were feminism, equality between homosexuals and transgender people , environmental policy and European policy . The organization regularly held events and seminars aimed primarily at young audiences. For example, an annual summer camp was organized where activists from all over the German-speaking area were able to undergo further political training for several days.

history

The organization was founded in Vienna in 2010 and originally represented a spin-off from the Styrian state organization of Green Alternative Youth , which was constituted in 2008 as the Young Green . In 2011, the Young Greens replaced the Green Alternative Youth in their function as the official youth organization of the Greens. The Green Alternative Youth remained the youth organization of the Wiener Grünen until 2014 , but then also merged with the Junge Grünen; these could thus be viewed as the successor organization to the green alternative youth founded in 1992 .

In the course of the protests against the Vienna Academic Ball 2014, which led to serious riots in downtown Vienna, the Young Greens made the website nowkr.at available as a “platform for independent anti-fascists” on which “You can do our hate have “read. This led to the Green Party leader Eva Glawischnig threatening the Young Greens with expulsion from the party. Since then, the website nowkr.at is no longer run by the Young Greens, but by the anti-fascist alliance NOWKR .

In the 2015 Viennese municipal council election campaign , the Young Greens attracted attention with the satirical magazine Moony , which Eva , the youth magazine of the Greens, was critical of. The Greens were criticized for “lack of content” and “cult of personality”.

Diana Witzani was the national spokesperson from 2013 to 2017 and Kay-Michael Dankl was the national spokesperson from 2015 to 2017 .

In October 2016, the GRAS groups Uni Graz, Med Uni Graz, Kunst Uni Graz in Styria and Uni Linz in Upper Austria founded the student organization Green Students . One of the spokespersons for the Green Students , Johannes Steiner, commented on GRAS that she “adheres to the principle of consensus”, which means that officials are not elected secretly, and that, in his opinion, they act “anti-democratically”. The group located in the left spectrum also criticized GRAS for failure and deterioration in content. The GRAS, on the other hand, accuses those people from the environment of the Young Greens with a lack of insight into the organizational structure of the GRAS, belief in hierarchy and anti-feminism. Incidentally, it is a project of narcissistic individuals.

The Green students received support from the youth organization, while the GRAS from the parent party. In the run-up to the ÖH elections in May 2017 , the dispute escalated because it said that at least at the universities in Linz and Graz two competing green lists could compete. Finally, on March 30, 2017, the Austrian Greens separated from their previous youth organization.

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In the ORF program Im Zentrum on April 9, 2017, the federal spokeswoman for the Greens Eva Glawischnig said she wanted to work with the Young Greens. However, not with the previous federal spokeswoman for the Junge Grünen Flora Petrik and her board team. On April 10, 2017, Petrik and the rest of the national board finally announced that they would make room for a new team and want to withdraw from the youth organization. Eva Glawischnig resigned on May 18.

As a result of the separation from the parent party, new regional organizations were created in Vienna and other federal states from summer 2017. Some of these were spin-offs from the Young Greens, but some were also start-ups that initially operated at state level. Only gradually did these groups of the Green Youth develop nationwide activities again. In order to be able to develop sustainable structures and processes, a new federal organization, the Green Youth - Green Alternative Youth, was founded in Vienna in February 2019 . A board of directors and other bodies were also elected.

On June 26, 2017, Flora Petrik, spokeswoman for the Young Greens, announced that the group would be part of the “Communist Party of Austria and Platform PLUS - Open List” list, together with the KPÖ in the 2017 National Council election. The party did not get the votes it needed to join the National Council.

At the 9th Federal Congress on July 31, 2017, Sarah Pansy was elected as the new spokesperson and a new managing director.

Structure and organization

The organization was organized on a grassroots basis. Every person could participate and contribute. The federal organization was divided into several state organizations, which in turn were divided into district groups. Members of the Young Greens were not automatically members of the parent party Die Grünen - Die Grüne Alternative . There was no nationwide minimum age. In some country organizations the members were not allowed to exceed the maximum age of 28 years, nationwide not the age of 30 years.

• The highest decision-making body of the Young Greens was the Federal Congress . All members of the country organizations and the federal organization were entitled to vote. The federal congress decides on the basic programs, elects the federal board, the auditors and the chairperson of the arbitral tribunal. The federal congress also decided on the annual plan and monitored the board. Every member could submit applications to the federal congress. The federal congress took place at least once a year.
• The Federal Committee (BA) consisted of two delegates from each country organization and one delegate from each local group. It met at least twice a year and approved the budget proposal for the federal congress. He controlled the work of the federal executive board, can suspend its members and co-opt members if federal executive board members leave it. The election of the federal organizational manager must be confirmed by the BA. The most important component, however, was the coordination and networking between the federal state organizations.
• The federal executive committee was the executive body of the federal organization. It was elected for one year and consisted of four to seven members (currently: seven). There was a spokesman, a finance officer, a political executive and two to four other board members. The federal board headed the operational level of the Young Greens. Among other things, the BV took care of the formalities, bookkeeping, implementation of projects and public relations .
• The state boards of the respective country organizations were elected annually by the members of the states. The state board usually consisted of four to six members, with at least one person acting as the state spokesman. The state board team maintained contacts with the state party and saw itself as an interface between the local group and the federal organization. Together with the members, the state executive organized events and seminars and carried out public relations work in the regional area of ​​responsibility.
• The district group usually acted as the first point of contact for employees . This could become a recognized district group, provided that it approved the statutes of the Young Greens. The district groups organized themselves. They organized regional campaigns and carried out public relations work.

National organizations

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National organization	Speakers	founding	Local groups
Styria	Victoria Vorraber, David Erhold	1995	Graz , Leoben , Bruck an der Mur , Kapfenberg
Lower Austria	Stefan Glaser	2005	Wiener Neustadt , Schwechat , Purkersdorf , Amstetten , Korneuburg , Tulln , Krems , St. Pölten
Vorarlberg	Lina Amann, Levin Spiegel	2008	Feldkirch , Dornbirn , Bregenz
Burgenland	Elias Schmelzer	2011	Eisenstadt , Oberwart
Salzburg	Jana Atteneder	2013	Pinzgau , Pongau , City of Salzburg
Tyrol	Jakob Fitzner	2013	Innsbruck , Schwaz , Telfs , Kufstein
Upper Austria	Anne-Sophie Bauer, Teresa Griesebner	2014	Linz , Attnang-Puchheim , Wels , Braunau , Eferding , Freistadt , Grieskirchen , Ried im Innkreis , Steyr
Vienna	Flora Petrik, Naomi Sametinger	2014	Hietzing , Landstrasse , Leopoldstadt , Währing , new building , Ottakring , Rudolfsheim-Fünfhaus
Carinthia / Koroska	Sebastian Glanzer	2016	Klagenfurt / Celovec , Villach / Beljak , Spittal an der Drau

See also

• Federation of Young European Greens (FYEG)

Web links

• Official website of the Austrian Young Greens

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Green youngsters join the communist left front without resistance. In: unzensuriert.at. August 1, 2017, accessed July 7, 2018 . 
2. ↑ Young Greens: Young Greens vote with 86% support for KPÖ PLUS election ; Retrieved Oct. 23, 2017
3. ↑ Junge Linke: We are taking new steps ( memento of the original from June 14, 2018 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. ; Retrieved June 14, 2018 
4. ↑ junge-gruene.at: Who we are
5. ↑ Jakob Winter: The internal generation conflict among the Greens. In: Profile. February 9, 2015, accessed May 25, 2016 .  
6. ↑ Whirl around the website of the green offspring , orf.at, January 27, 2014, accessed on January 28, 2014.
7. ↑ Young Greens rebel satirically , derstandard.at, September 18, 2015, accessed on June 17, 2017.
8. ↑ Contraception required on a health insurance certificate, kurier at, September 25, 2013
9. ↑ Cengiz Kulac is no longer the spokesperson for the Young Greens , Der Standard , January 7, 2015
10. ↑ Portrait: Kay-Michael Dankl, KPÖ Plus , Salzburger Nachrichten , March 5, 2018
11. ↑ Flora Petrik elected head of the Young Greens , Die Presse, January 9, 2017
12. ↑ Helmut Fohringer: Green students have split. In: diepresse.com. October 11, 2016. Retrieved August 18, 2017 . 
13. ^ ÖH: “Green students” split off from GRAS. In: wienerzeitung.at. October 11, 2016. Retrieved September 29, 2017 . 
14. ↑ Green left group splits off from ÖH parliamentary group grass. Der Standard, October 11, 2016, accessed March 31, 2017.
15. ↑ GRAS statement on the "project" green students. In: gras.at. October 10, 2016, archived from the original on February 18, 2017 ; accessed on April 22, 2019 . 
16. ↑ Lisa Kogelnik ÖH election: What's behind the green conflict. Der Standard, March 23, 2017, accessed March 31, 2017.
17. ↑ Katharina Mittelstaedt: Greens separate from young Greens. Der Standard, March 30, 2017, accessed March 31, 2017.
18. ↑ Flora Petrik announces new youth platform. Der Standard, May 1, 2017, accessed June 17, 2017.
19. ↑ National Council election: Young Greens want to run with KPÖ. In: diepresse.com. “Die Presse” Verlags-Gesellschaft, June 26, 2017, accessed on June 27, 2017 .  
20. ^ Election of a new board at the 9th Federal Congress of the Young Greens
21. ↑ structures. (No longer available online.) In: Junge-gruene.at. Archived from the original on February 28, 2018 ; accessed on May 1, 2020 . 
22. ^ Young Green Styria: Provincial Board
23. ^ Young Green Lower Austria: Provincial Executive
24. ↑ Young Greens Vorarlberg: State Board
25. ↑ Board election 2016
26. ↑ Verena Niedermüller: "Save Carinthia today, the world tomorrow". Interview with Sebastian Glanzer. In: mein district.at. December 21, 2016, accessed April 18, 2019 .