Association of workers' youth organizations in Germany

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The Association of Workers' Youth in Germany was a social democratic youth association at the beginning of the Weimar Republic .

It was able to establish itself with the revolution of 1918, since section 17 of the Reich Association Act of 1908, which had banned the political organization of young people, was abolished. The association tied in with the organization of the (social democratic) young workers through the Association of Young Workers in Germany (1904–1908) and through the Central Office for Working Youth (1909–1918). The war years 1914–1918 had, as in the social democracy, led to the division of the young workers, the war opposition had founded the Socialist Youth International , some of which joined the Spartakusbund .

The federation of workers' youth associations was politically close to the social democracy and had over 70,000 members in the early 1920s. In autumn 1922 the association merged with the Socialist Proletarian Youth ( which was close to the USPD ) to form the Socialist Workers' Youth (SAJ).