Syndicalist-anarchist youth in Germany
The Syndicalist-Anarchist Youth of Germany (SAJD) was a German anarcho-syndicalist youth federation that existed from 1921 to 1933 and had around 3,000 members in 120 local groups.
history
The SAJD was created in 1921 from the split off of the wing of libertarian youth, which was closely related to the Free Workers' Union of Germany (FAUD). At the 14th annual FAUD congress in 1922, the SAJD was recognized as an independent youth organization. FAUD and SAJD were closely linked from the beginning, so many parents of the young people were themselves active in FAUD, and most young people in the SAJD later became members of FAUD, or were already members. Member and one of the theorists of the SAJD was the anarcho-syndicalist Helmut Rüdiger .
Like the FAUD, the SAJD was organized on a federal basis. The organ of the SAJD was the magazine " Junge Anarchisten ".
The later KPD and SPD politician Herbert Wehner was temporarily a member of the SAJD in the mid-1920s and belonged to the minority there who rejected closer ties to the FAUD. Before the seizure of power , there was personal overlap with the black multitudes . In 1933 the SAJD disbanded and continued to work underground, in the Rhineland, partly together with the Edelweiss Pirates .
In the post-war period, anarcho-syndicalist youth groups tied in with the theory and practice of the SAJD.
literature
- Helge Döhring: No commands, no obeying! The history of the syndicalist-anarchist youth in Germany since 1918 . about the publishing house, Bern 2011. ISBN 978-3-905984-07-1
- Helge Döhring (ed.): The Reichsferienlager of the Syndicalist-Anarchist Youth of Germany in Thuringia and the Bakuninhütte. Certificates and documents (1928-1933) , Edition Syfo, number 5, Bremen 2014 (as pdf)
- Hartmut Rübner, Freedom and Bread. The Free Workers' Union of Germany. A Study of the History of Anarcho-Syndicalism . About the SAJD, page: 76, 78, 147, 150, 154, 177, 182, 198-205, 209, 245, 249, 285, 288f., 300f. Libertad Verlag , Potsdam 1994. ISBN 3-922226-21-3 .
Web links
- On the history of the syndicalist-anarchist youth movement since 1918 ; Article on Schattenblick.de - originally published in Direct Action No. 195, September / October 2009
- On the history of the syndicalist-anarchist youth Interview with Helge Döhring, Radio Blau, Leipzig, June 2013