Pioneer camp
In the context of the pioneer organizations, certain children's holiday camps in the Soviet Union , the GDR and other states under Soviet influence were designated as pioneer camps .
history
The first pioneer camps were run by communist parties in various countries in the 1920s. Both the Komsomol camps of the pioneer organization Vladimir Ilyich Lenin in the Soviet Union and the camps of the Red Women’s and Girls’s Union, which belongs to the KPD, were based on the tent camps of the Boy Scout Movement , but the focus was on education as “communist people” . In this way, the pioneer camps were also directed against similar offers from other youth associations and organizations that were feared to affect the working class children. As early as 1930, some of these camps were as so-called pioneer Republics referred to, in which the participating children had extensive co-determination rights.
GDR
With the establishment of the pioneer organization Ernst Thälmann as a children's association of the Free German Youth , the number and frequency of pioneer camps in the GDR increased significantly, mostly as tent camps in the 1950s, later as permanent camp facilities in many places. These were generally financed and supported by large companies.
But the children's organizations of the West German Communist Party, later the DKP , led by pioneer camp.
Well-known holiday camps
The most famous pioneer camp in the GDR was the pioneer republic Wilhelm Pieck on the Werbellinsee and in the Soviet Union the all-union pioneer camp Artek on the Crimean peninsula .