Young Pioneer camp

As a pioneer camp certain children's camps in the Soviet Union, the GDR and other states were designated under Soviet influence in the context of the pioneer organizations.

History

The first pioneer camps were conducted in the 1920s by communist parties in different countries. Both the Komsomol camp of the pioneer organization Vladimir Ilyich Lenin in the Soviet Union and the stock belonging to the KPD Red Women's and Girls' Association based in the external shape of the tent camps of the Boy Scouts movement, but the content was the education of the " communist man " at the center. Thus, the pioneer camp was also concerned like other youth associations and organizations from which to influence the workers' children was feared. As early as 1930 some of these camps were designated as so-called pioneer republics, in which the participating children had extensive co-determination rights.

With the founding of the Pioneer organization Ernst Thalmann as children Confederation of Free German Youth was in the GDR, the number and frequency of pioneer stock increased significantly in the 1950s, mostly still as camp, and later in many places as a fixed storage facilities. These were generally funded by large companies and supported.

But the children's organizations of the West German Communist Party, and later the DKP, led by pioneer camp.

Well-known holiday camp

The best-known pioneer camp in the GDR was the pioneer Republic Wilhelm Pieck on Werbellinsee and in the Soviet Union, the All-Union pioneer camp Artek on the Crimean peninsula in Ukraine today.

See also

• Children Republic
• Neptune Festival
• Pioneer House