Socially Liberal Youth
Radical Democratic Youth was in 1970 the provisional working name of a spin-off of the then FDP -treuen wing of the Lower Saxony Young Democrats after his dramatic defeat in the elections at the time of his " country's Youth Day " delegates' meeting referred to in Osterode am Harz .
At least also decisive for the course of the State Youth Day and the subsequent split was the acceptance of Motion 13: "Smashing the dictatorship of the bourgeoisie by establishing the dictatorship of the proletariat ".
There are also statements from those involved that a candidacy was waived after application 13 was accepted. The compromise candidate Reimar Oltmanns , who was elected DJD state chairman in Osterode in September 1970 - he received 107 of the 131 delegate votes - resigned after the split and moved to the SPD together with around twenty other young democrats in positions of responsibility in Lower Saxony .
The Lower Saxony FDP executive bodies ended the dual membership between young democrats and the FDP with their incompatibility resolution of the FDP state executive in September 1970. It automatically led to exclusion from the party .
Efforts by the DJD federal chairman Heiner Bremer to prevent the split failed. Karlheinz Reich became the regional chairman of the association that was then founded as the Social Liberal Youth (SLJ) . After the resignation of Reimar Oltmanns, the state chairman of the young democrats since the delegates' meeting in Osterode was Christian Schwarzenholz, who was only deputy state chairman and who had previously been excluded from the FDP .
Social Liberal Youth (SLJ)
The Social Liberal Youth (First Statute November 1970) was mainly set apart in terms of content from the positions of the Lower Saxony Young Democrats through the Braunschweig Manifesto . This is made clear by the following delimitations
- the liberal view that “ democracy should be the goal of political struggle and also a method, insofar as the prevailing legal conditions permit changes with democratic weapons,” versus revolution
- from the favored politicizing grassroots work in contrast to " cadre formation "
- permanent emancipation of the masses instead of revolution
The relationship to the FDP is made clear by the following quote from the Braunschweig Manifesto: "The transformation of the FDP will only happen through a change in the membership structure, not through overturning party congress resolutions."
Fusion SLJ / DJD
As a result, the importance and activity of the two organizations decreased significantly.
The applicants for Motion 13 left the Young Democrats (DJD).
Both associations and the leading personalities sought recognition from the FDP as the (only) related youth association. The grassroots members of both associations were rather uninterested in the FDP.
For example, on the initiative of the Osnabrück and Göttingen district associations of the Young Democrats, the two organizations were reunified in 1972. Ingrid Matthäus-Maier was present at the merger congress .