Young Communist League of Germany

The Young Communist League of Germany ( KJVD ) went in 1920 as Communist Youth of Germany ( KJD ) pops out of the Free Socialist Youth of the Communist Party of Germany.

The Free Socialist Youth was a completion in October 1918 with the support of the Spartacus League merger Communist youth groups. After the merger of the KPD and USPD majority of the end of 1920 also affiliated to the " Socialist proletarian youth" of the USPD the KJD. 1925 renamed itself then the common KJD Organization in Communist Youth Association of Germany has to offer. The association was founded in 1919 a member of the Communist Youth International ( CYI ). In May 1924, Conrad Blenkle became chairman and chaired four and a half years.

1933, the Communist Youth League of Germany was banned by the Nazis. Many members of the KJVD were murdered under Nazi rule. Nevertheless, many members against the Nazis committed. They fought from 1936 in the Inter brigades in the Spanish Civil War against the fascist coup by Francisco Franco and were from 1939 to 1945 in various European countries members of partisan units or fought in the ranks of the Red Army.

As a revolutionary youth organization of the Communist Party of KJVD the mother party followed in the resistance, but it built a self-sufficient structure. Investigations for the City of Hamburg showed that while the organization was shattered very quickly or dissolved. If one went in the 1970s still assumed that several thousand young people were organized in the underground, Researches show of the 1990s in the archives of the SED that only about 150 members continued to work illegally. The connection to other North German groups was interrupted after a few months. Also in the underground party internal control continued to function. Regular reports to the line in Berlin, Hamburg leaders marked progress and setbacks and informed about individual comrades and their party loyalty. The Hamburg residual group of about 20 people was arrested after a spy report in spring 1935.

Some officials, like Erich Honecker, continued to work in the underground or emigrated to the USSR later.

Program

The KJVD was a revolutionary youth organization. He supported the actions of the Communist Party of Germany. From its ranks many functionaries of the Communist Party emerged. The ideological cornerstone of the KJVD were Marxism and proletarian internationalism. The KJVD saw himself as the only youth organization, which advocated political rights of youth and developed a clear program to achieve their demands.