SSW-Youth
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Youth in the SSW SSWUngdom (in Danish) Jugend im SSW (in German) |
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| President | Christopher Andresen |
| Vice President | Jonas Kopf |
| Founded | 2010 |
| Headquarters | Aktivitetshuset Norderstraße 49 24939 Flensburg |
| Mother party | South Schleswig Voter Federation |
| European affiliation | European Free Alliance Youth (EFAy) |
| Magazine | Nyt fra SSWUngdom |
| Website | www.sswungdom.de |
The Youth in the South Schleswig Voter Federation (Youth in the SSW) (Danish: SSWUngdom, German: Jugend im SSW), a political youth organization in Germany, is the youth wing of the South Schleswig Voter Federation.
The official name of the organisation is Sydslesvigsk Vælgerforenings Ungdom in Danish and Jugend im Südschleswigschem Wählerverband in German. The corresponding abbreviations are SSWUngdom and Jugend im SSW, respectively. There is no official English name, but a rough translation of the German name is Youth in the South Schleswig Voter Federation, abbreviated Youth in the SSW. The organisation itself rejects the abbreviations SSWU, SSW-U and SSW-Ungdom.
According to themselves, they are non-ideological. Instead, they choose to let their positions be determined by three factors. The members of their party and minority all have a connection to Denmark and Northern Europe. They all come from a minority. And they are all young. From these three circumstances, they deduce the four key principles they use to determine their position on a given matter:
Historically, the SSW has often had a youth wing, but these occurrences have always faded out as the persons in charge gradually left Southern Schleswig to study in the greater cities of Denmark or Germany, which is why, in 2009, the group of initiators under Manuel J. Thomsen decided to create a solid and democratic structure for the youth wing. It was their belief, that such structures would prohibit the usual disappearance of the organisation when they left the region to study. Therefore, they decided to hold the first National Convention in 2010, where the members adopted the first by-laws, the first political program and elected the first Board. Under the chairmanship of Lukas A. Lausen, who was elected on this occasion, the youth wing increased its membership fivefold, its budget was doubled, its activity level increased significantly and the contacts to the SSW and the press were formalised. On the National Convention of 2011, the by-laws were changed, among other thing to allow for the creation of local branches, and the second National Board was elected under the chairmanship of Jonas Knickmeier. Since then, the positive trend has continued.
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