List of youth organizations in Germany

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This list includes active youth organizations in Germany that are important nationwide.

Political youth organizations

Youth organizations of the parties represented in the Bundestag

Youth organization Abbreviation Mother party Members Regional associations founding year
Young Union JU CDU and CSU * 110,000 18th 1947
Young Socialists Jusos SPD approx. 80,000 16 1914
Left youth ['solid] ['solid] The left * 22,500 16 2007
Green youth GJ Alliance 90 / The Greens 13,500 16 1994
Young liberals JuLis FDP * 10,000 16 1980
Young alternative for Germany YES AfD approx. 1,655 15th 2013

* = independent according to the statutes

Youth organizations from other parties

Youth organization Abbreviation Mother party Members Regional associations founding year
Socialist German workers' youth SDAJ DKP 750 14th 1968
Young nationalists JN NPD 280 10 1969
Young ecologists JÖ ÖDP about 250 2 1992
rebel MLPD 150 1992
Young pirates JuPis Pirate party 2016 (newly founded)
Hintner Youth HJ The party 4th 2005

The party youth are z. Organized in the ring of political youth

Historical youth organizations from parties represented in the Bundestag

Youth organization Abbreviation Mother party founding year Separation from parent party Dissolution / prohibition
Socialist youth in Germany - The Falcons SJD SPD * 1904 2011 -
Young democrats DJD FDP * 1919 1982 2018 as JD / JL
Free German Youth FDJ KPD * 1936 - 1954

* = independent according to the statutes

Student associations

Youth organization Abbreviation Parent association Members College groups founding year
Ring of Christian Democratic Students RCDS CDU and CSU 8,000 87 1951
Junge Union university groups JU-HSG CDU and CSU 3
Juso university groups Juso-HSG SPD 80 1973
Federal Association of Liberal University Groups LHG FDP 64 1987
Campus green Alliance 90 / The Greens 55 1999
The left. Socialist-Democratic Student Association Die Linke.SDS The left 62 2007
Pirate college groups PIRATES 40 2009
Campus alternative. AfD / JA university groups AfD-HSG Alternative for Germany 2013
ver.di university groups ver.di-HSG ver.di
Federal Committee of Students in the GEW BASS GEW
AEGEE - European Student Forum 1985
AIESEC - International Student Organization 1946

Former student associations

Youth organization Abbreviation Parent association College groups founding year resolution
Socialist German Student Union SDS SPD (until 1960) 1946 1970
Social Democratic University Association (from 1972: Socialist University Association) SHB SPD (until 1971) 1960 1992
Marxist student union Spartacus MSB DKP 1971 1990

Student associations

Union youth organizations

  • DGB youth - The union youth is both part of the DGB and an independent youth association. Member organizations of the DGB youth are the following youth organizations of the currently eight DGB member unions:
- EVG-Jugend - youth organization of the railway and transport union
- IG BCE Jugend - youth organization of the mining, chemical, and energy industrial union
- IG Metall Jugend - youth organization of the metal industry union
- Junge BAU - youth organization of the industrial union building-agrar-environment
- Junge GEW - youth organization of the education and science union
- Junge Gruppe (GdP) - youth organization of the police union
- Junge NGG - youth organization of the food-enjoyment-restaurants union
- ver.di Jugend - youth organization of the United Service Union

Youth parties

Other political youth organizations

Environment and nature conservation youth associations

Youth organizations of the relief organizations

Sports youth associations

Youth travel associations and youth exchange associations

Boy Scout Associations

Interdenominational associations

Confessional Associations

Religious youth organizations

Christian youth organizations

Other religious youth organizations

Youth organizations from the economy

Youth organizations in the cultural field

Migrant youth organizations (MJSO) / Associations of young people with a migration background (VJM)

Other youth organizations

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Learn more about the Junge Union Deutschlands. In: Junge-union.de. Junge Union , accessed October 25, 2019 .
  2. ↑ Dorothee Torebko, Mathias Puddig: "Mrs. Karliczek is overwhelmed". In: MOZ . Retrieved March 9, 2020 .
  3. ^ Association history. In: linksjugend-solid.de. Linksjugend ['solid] , accessed October 25, 2019 .
  4. ↑ Green Youth : History. In: gruene-jugend.de. Green Youth, accessed July 4, 2020 .
  5. ↑ Who we are. In: julis.de. Young Liberals , accessed October 25, 2019 .
  6. ↑ Julia Klaus: Dropouts want to found new AfD youth. In: time online. January 30, 2019, accessed March 9, 2020 .
  7. ^ Constitutional Protection Report 2018 (PDF) Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution , p. 148 , accessed on October 25, 2019 .
  8. ^ Constitutional Protection Report 2018. (PDF) Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution , p. 87 , accessed on October 25, 2019 .
  9. ↑ https://junge-nationalisten.de/allgemein/adressen-der-jn-verbaende/
  10. ^ Federal Board of Young Ecologists. In: Jungeoekologen.de. Young Ecologists , accessed July 6, 2017 .
  11. ↑ https://www.jungeoekologen.de/vor-ort/uebersicht/
  12. ^ Constitutional Protection Report 2018. (PDF) Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution , p. 151 , accessed on October 25, 2019 .