Young Communist League of Germany (Opposition) Kommunistischer Jugendverband Deutschlands (Opposition) | |
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Leader | Alfred Albrecht (1932–) |
Headquarters | Berlin, Stuttgart |
Membership | ~1,000 |
Ideology | Communism |
Mother party | Communist Party of Germany (Opposition) |
Magazine | Junge Kämpfer (1929–1931) |
The Young Communist League of Germany (Opposition) (German : Kommunistischer Jugendverband Deutschlands (Opposition), abbreviated KJVD-Opposition, KJVDO, KJVO or KJO) was a youth organization in Germany. KJVD-Opposition was the youth wing of the Communist Party of Germany (Opposition). [1]
KJVD-Opposition had approximately 1,000 members. It was strongest in Thuringia and Saxony. Other areas where the organization was active were Berlin-Brandenburg, Wasserkante, Silesia, Württemberg and Hesse. KJVD-Opposition had a national school (Reichsschule), which could host 35 people at a time. At the school, the organization conducted political training, usually for two weeks at a time. [2]
KJVD-Opposition published the monthly Junge Kämpfer ('Young Fighter') in Berlin from 1929-1931, which was distributed amongst members and sympathizers of the movement. [3] [4] [5] Junge Kämpfer was mainly edited by Walter Uhlmann. [6] Another monthly KJVD-Opposition publication, Kommunistische Jugend-Politik ('Communist Youth Politics') dealt with organizational issues and was distributed amongst cadres. [3]
In 1932 the national leadership of KJVD-Opposition shifted from Berlin to Stuttgart. Around this time Alfred Albrecht became the national leader of KJVD-Opposition. [7] Albeit a minor group in the German labour movement, KJVD-Opposition organized some resistance activities against the Nazi regime in the 1930s. [1] Under Albrecht's leadership KJVD-Opposition formed a youth cartel of left-wing organizations, and conducted anti-fascist mobilizations in working-class neighbourhoods. [2] [7] Walter Uhlmann was the representative of KJVD-Opposition in the underground Berlin Committee of the mother party. [8]
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