Socialist Youth League of Germany

The Socialist Youth League of Germany ( SJVD, also SJV ) was one of the SAPD related, socialist youth organization.

Founded in 1931 simultaneously with the SAPD, the SJVD basically consisted of former members of the Social Democratic SAJ, where as in Breslau and Dresden ( there included the Association of 1,000 members ) partially whole local groups or significant parts of SAJ structures changed the organization. While the debate about the course of the party the 1932-33 scoring 8000-10000 membership association counted from the left wing of the party and opposed the resolution aspirations of the party chairman Max Seydewitz and Kurt Rosenfeld.

After the transfer of power to the Nazi Party in 1933 SJVD members were frequent as in Dresden, Berlin or Hamburg integrated into the resistance structures of the mother party, in part they acted, as in Mannheim own. At the same time there was also exiled structures of the organization whose central line was in Oslo and was led by Willy Brandt.

The SJVD was from 1931 to 1933, first edited by Willy Kress man Jungprolet - Out Magazine of the toilers youth, and later in exile, the Socialist Youth and the Youth correspondence.

Known members beside Willy Brandt were Edith Baumann, Franz Bobzien, Peter Blach Stone, Fritz lamb, Jakob Moneta, Alma Kettig, Dietrich Oppenberg.