Young lions
| Young lions | |
|---|---|
| Establishment date: | 1966 |
| Place of foundation: | Winterthur |
| Dissolution date: | 1974 |
| Reason for dissolution: | Membership decline |
| Ideology: | Youth party |
| Average age: | 18-30 |
The Young Lions were a political party in Winterthur . The youth party sat in the Winterthur municipal parliament from 1966 to 1974.
history
The Young Lions were founded in response to the outdated Winterthur parliament - the average age at the time was 55 years - and ran for the first time in 1966 for elections to the large municipal council . They immediately won two seats, and the 24-year-old Manfred Stahel, founder of the Winterthur youth center and current mayor of Neftenbach , became the youngest member of the local parliament in Switzerland.
The Young Lions represented an autonomous politics that moved independently of the political camps. In the beginning they had a reputation as “enfants terribles”, but this changed over time. In 1968 they presented an action program to centralize the city administration in a high-rise building. Although this proposal could not prevail, a counter-proposal to merge the public authorities at Obertor was accepted by the people. The community work position created in 1970 also goes back to a political initiative by Manfred Stahel in 1967.
In the 1970 elections, the Junge Lions doubled their share of seats and filled four of their 60 seats. Other parties had also reacted to the success of the Junge Lions: There were also more younger candidates in their ranks, one of whom was the later SP city president Ernst Wohlwend , who moved up to the local council in 1971 at the age of 23. In 1974 the party no longer took part in the elections: it had imposed an age limit of 30 years on itself and could no longer find any offspring.
literature
- Christian Jossi: Young rebels, raids and explosives . In: The Landbote . December 30, 1999, p. 13 .
Individual evidence
- ^ Nicole Weissenberger: The community work of the city administration Winterthur from 1970-2010. (PDF; 1.8 MB) Zurich University of Applied Sciences, February 2011, p. 29 , accessed on March 17, 2014 .