Jungsturm (movement)
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The Jungsturm was a German youth corps founded by Leo von Münchow in Swinoujscie in 1897 , under the patronage of General Field Marshal August von Mackensen, and saw itself as the oldest youth association in Germany, alongside the Wandervogel .
history
The Jungsturm, which was first called the Blue-White-Blue Union, was founded in Swinoujscie by Leo von Münchow, who was thirteen at the time, in 1897 . Like many other youth groups, the Union wanted to get out of the big city to exercise in the great outdoors. Any softening was rejected.
Unlike the Wandervogel, where the ideals of romanticism , freedom and the individual's self-determination were in the foreground, the Jungsturm, founded a year later, was geared towards conveying Prussian ideals . According to Münchow's founding idea, life and idea should belong solely to the German people, regardless of party, class or rank. The “German homeland was hiked”, there was camping, a feeling of community was conveyed.
After the end of the First World War , the philosophy of the Jungsturm changed. During this time the Jungsturm had connections to the Stahlhelm and was a member of the Jungdeutschland-Bund . The hierarchical structure became tighter, military training of German youth became the goal, with strict discipline, military sports and labor service . Off-road exercises were incorporated in a playful way. Education for Prussia continued to be in the foreground. The older ones received field exercises under the guidance of the Reichswehr .
Since the Versailles Treaty limited the number of the Reichswehr to 100,000 men, the chance of accepting young unserved volunteers was slim. Thanks to the Jungsturm and its close connections to high-ranking officers from the imperial era , “deserved” young attackers often succeeded in joining the Reichswehr.
With 20–30,000 members, it was one of the largest youth associations in the Weimar Republic .
The Jungsturm was Although the 1933 Hitlerjugend equal switched , but is not identical to the Jungsturm Hitler , the immediately the SA under stood as their youth section was.
The magazine of the German Youth Corps, Der Jungsturm , founded in 1907, was published until 1937.
Well-known members of the Jungsturm
- Hasso von Boehmer , Lieutenant Colonel in the General Staff
- Wilhelm Grewe , professor of international law and German diplomat of the FRG
- Otto Ernst Remer , Commander of the Guard Battalion Greater Germany and the Führer Accompanying Battalion
Established in 1954
In 1954 the Jungsturm eV was founded in Hanover as the successor organization of the Jungsturm leader Colonel a. D. Theo Thöne founded. The Deister and Weser newspaper , Hameln , characterized the Jungsturm e. V. in a report dated November 6, 1954 as follows:
“One of the main tasks of the Jungsturm is to keep young people away from all party political and religious disputes until they reach the age of voting. Otherwise, as in the past, efforts will be made to attract young people from all walks of life. You in the sense of Leo v. Bringing up Münchow, whose life and ideas belonged solely to the German people, regardless of party, class or rank, is another task that the new Jungsturm also faces. We know that it will not be easy to bring the ideas of the Jungsturm to the young generation, because the propaganda, slander and disregard that began immediately after the war let the patriotic feeling cool in the hearts. The old young strikers know that by restoring certain traditions they will achieve nothing. They are trying to find more contemporary ways of attracting young people to their ideas. "
The Jungsturm e. V. was affiliated with the German Youth Association Kyffhäuser and a member of the right-wing extremist comradeship ring of national youth associations .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Young Storm. (JG. 26), sheet 6. First German Youth Association (monthly. [Ed. By the Reichsverband des Jungsturms]. Ed .: Leo von Münchow).
- ↑ Young Storm. (JG. 27), sheet 3. First German Youth Association (monthly. [Ed. By the Reichsverband des Jungsturms]. Ed .: Leo von Münchow).
- ^ A b Stefan Breuer: Carl Schmitt in Context: Intellectual Policy in the Weimar Republic , p. 242.
- ↑ Hans-Gerd Jaschke: Origin and development of right-wing extremism in the Federal Republic , vol. 1, p. 136.
- ^ Peter Dudek: Young right-wing extremists. P. 72.
literature
- Jungsturm 1897–1932: For the 35th anniversary. National printing and publishing cooperative, Schlawe 1932.