Red falcon

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The Rote Falken are a youth association in German-speaking countries. Created about a hundred years ago, they should enable the offspring of socialist families to have a meaningful leisure activity. The goal of the children and youth groups is the meaningful and attractive leisure activities through group lessons, excursions and tent camps.

Austria

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In Austria they are part of the Austrian Kinderfreunde and as such a preliminary organization of the SPÖ . You are active both educationally and politically. There is no membership in the true sense of the word with the Red Falcons. The children and young people do not have to pay a membership fee, nor do they or their parents have to sign a declaration of membership.

founding

The Rote Falken was founded in 1925 by Anton Tesarek . They were founded out of the idea that the 12 to 15 year olds in the child friend groups did not go well with the younger ones. One of the basic ideas was and still is that young people should take responsibility for the Red Falcon group themselves. The Red Falcons wanted to offer the working class children a change from everyday city life. The young proletarian children should get some fresh air and get a meaning for life. In 1926 the first federal meeting took place in Steyr, in which almost 600 falcons took part.

The falcon movement also influenced the children's friends movement in the German Reich, which adopted ideas and forms in modified form.

Prohibition

As a result of the February 1934 fighting against the Austrofascists , the Red Falcons, like all other organizations of the labor movement, were banned.

Re-establishment

After the war defeat of the German Reich in 1945, the Red Falcons also reestablished themselves.

Traditional clothing

The blue shirt and the red scarf are meant to refer to the tradition of the labor movement. The classic workers wore blue jackets and trousers, the so-called "locksmith's clothing". The red cloth refers to the red flag of the labor movement.

Switzerland

In Switzerland, the children's groups “Kinderfreunde” and “Rote Falken” emerged from the labor movement in the interwar period. In the best of times, the Red Falcons in Switzerland numbered three thousand members. Today the number has dropped to less than a hundred. Only the Zurich section has existed without interruption since 1929 and has experienced an upswing since the turn of the millennium. There have been two local groups in Zurich since 2014. The section in Bern was reactivated in 2008. The Kinderfreunde Biel association offers eco-educational camps and events.

history

Before the Social Democratic Party of Switzerland had its own children's organization, the “Social Democratic School Association” existed in Zurich as early as 1910. The split from the Communist Party in 1920/21 severely weakened socialist educational work.

In Biel a group ( "Workers' Association Kinderfreunde Biel") in 1922, founded by Albert Hofer (1873-1963) was born. In the same year Anny Klawa-Morf and Karl Geissbühler founded a children's group in Bern. The first Zurich falcon group was founded in 1929 by the Zöbeli siblings in Zurich 9 . Another group was formed on June 1, 1933 in Wiedikon under the name “Kinderfreunde Zürich 3” and on March 3, 1956 the “Kinderfreunde Zürich 9” was founded. The two children's groups merged in 1974. Further groups of the Red Falcons also existed in Burgdorf , Basel and other cities and towns in Switzerland. After the visit of the well-known sponsor of the international child friends movement, Max Winter, the National Conference of the Swiss Child Friends Organizations (LASKO) was founded in 1927, which in its heyday had 41 sections with 180 helpers and 3,000 children and young people. In 1996 the national conference was dissolved.

International

The Red Falcons are organized internationally in the IFM-SEI . The sister association in Germany is the Socialist Youth of Germany (SJD) - Die Falken , which also form Red Falcon groups (Rote Falken Ring for 12 to 14 year olds).

See also

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Neue Zürcher Zeitung No. 100/2011
  2. ^ Zurich Social Archives
  3. ↑ a b c basic program 2010: content paper of the Red Falcons Austria. Available online at kinderfreunde.at (accessed November 20, 2019).
  4. ↑ History: From Founding to Prohibition. In: kinderfreunde.at . Retrieved November 20, 2019.
  5. ↑ Our youth on the move. An empire meeting of the Red Falcons. In:  Arbeiter-Zeitung , August 12, 1926, p. 8 (online at ANNO ). Template: ANNO / Maintenance / aze.
  6. ↑ History: The Years In The Underground. In: kinderfreunde.at . Retrieved November 20, 2019.
  7. ^ History: New beginning after 1945. In: kinderfreunde.at . Retrieved November 20, 2019.
  8. ^ Zurich Social Archives
  9. ↑ Rote Falken, Zurich Affoltern
  10. ↑ Neue Zürcher Zeitung No. 100/2011
  11. ↑ 2011 program of Children's Friends Biel
  12. ↑ http://www.kinderfreunde-biel.ch/eingangverein.htm
  13. ↑ http://www.bern.rotefalken.ch/wer-sind-wir/geschichte-der-roten-falken-schweiz/
  14. ^ Zurich Social Archives
  15. ^ Page of the Rote Falken Bern (May 1, 2011)

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