Young Communist League of Germany

The Youth Communist League of Germany (German: Kommunistischer Jugendverband Deutschlands, KJVD) is the youth organization of the Communist Party of Germany. It is one of the two main youth organizations in the Free Socialist Republic of Germany, with the other being the Socialist Workers Youth of the United Social Democratic Party of Germany.
The KJVD has grown from 50,000 members in 1920 to approximately 1,400,000 in 1931.
== History ==
The KJVD has its origins in the Free Socialist Youth (German: Freie Sozialistische Jugend, FSJ), founded on 27 October 1918. The founding congress was attended by Karl Liebknecht. The organization was initially connected to the Independent Social Democratic Party of Germany, but aligned with the Communist Party of Germany upon its formation in January 1919. At the February congress of the FSJ, a dictatorship of the proletariat was declared as the goal, and the FSJ naturally came to the side of the Reds as the German Civil War began in May 1919.
After the end of the civil war, the FSJ was reorganized into the KJVD on 14 December 1920. From then on, the organization grew rapidly in membership and influence.
Category:German youth organizations