Socialist Youth Association of Germany

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The Socialist Youth Association of Germany ( SJVD , also SJV ) was a socialist youth organization close to the SAPD .

Founded in 1931 at the same time as the SAPD, the SJVD essentially consisted of former members of the social democratic SAJ , whereby as in Wroclaw and Dresden (there the association had 1,000 members) sometimes entire local groups or significant parts of SAJ structures changed organizations. During the controversy over the course of the party from 1932-33, the association, which had between 8,000 and 10,000 members, belonged to the left wing of the party and opposed the dissolution efforts of party chairmen Max Seydewitz and Kurt Rosenfeld .

After the transfer of power to the NSDAP in 1933, SJVD members were often integrated into the resistance structures of the parent party, as in Dresden, Berlin or Hamburg ; in some cases, as in Mannheim , they acted independently. At the same time there were also exile structures of the organization, whose central management was in Oslo and was headed by Willy Brandt .

From 1931 to 1933, the SJVD initially published the Jungprolet , edited by Willy Kressmann , and later, in exile, the Socialist Youth and Youth Correspondence .

Well-known members besides Willy Brandt were Edith Baumann , Franz Bobzien , Peter Blachstein , Fritz Lamm , Jakob Moneta , Alma Kettig , Dietrich Oppenberg .

literature

  • Hanno Drechsler : The Socialist Workers' Party of Germany (SAPD). A contribution to the history of the German labor movement at the end of the Weimar Republic. Meisenheim am Glan 1965, v. a. Pp. 164-169 ISBN 3-445-00431-5