National League of German Democratic Youth Clubs

The National League of German Democratic Youth Clubs (German: Reichsbund der Deutschen Demokratischen Jugend) was a political youth movement in Weimar Germany, functioning as the youth wing of the German Democratic Party (DDP). The organization was founded in April 1919 and was led by Max Weissner.^[1][2] The club spoke out with other youth clubs against "the excessive claims of the princes."^[3] During the initial phase of the Weimar Republic, the youth league had around 20,000 members across Germany. However, the organization went into a spiral of decline. By the end of 1926 its membership was below 2,300.^[2]

References

1. Jarausch, K. H.; Jones, Larry Eugene (1990-10-03). In Search of a Liberal Germany: Studies in the History of German Liberalism from 1789 to the Present. Berg Publishers. p. 292. ISBN 978-0-85496-614-1.
2. Jones, Larry Eugene, and James N. Retallack. Elections, Mass Politics, and Social Change in Modern Germany: New Perspectives. Washington, D.C.: German Historical Institute, 1992. p. 352, 355
3. S.J, Robert Bireley (2018-11-15). The Counter-Reformation Prince: Anti-Machiavellianism or Catholic Statecraft in Early Modern Europe. UNC Press Books. p. 242. ISBN 978-1-4696-0646-0.