mass organisations
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- Created on: 20-03-16 17:53
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- Mass organisation Aim: to reach the parts the party couldn't reach)
- 1952: Sport and Technology Association (GST)
- Activities
- Organised summer camps and for "Young Patriots"
- Large numbers of school children attended
- Paramilitary education lessons
- Sailing, paragliding, driving lessons, learning how to operate amateur radios
- Organised summer camps and for "Young Patriots"
- Membership
- 4/5ths in a survey were only members because it was fun
- Gained personal enjoyment from facilities withought buying into socialist view
- Aims
- Paramilitary organisation
- training ground for next generation GDR soldiers
- 77% desired atheists, nearly a quarter religious :(
- 4/5ths in a survey were only members because it was fun
- Activities
- The League of Culture (KB)
- Membership
- 1,500,000 members by 1988
- Targeted at intellectuals
- Activities
- Some groups apolitical (sort out neighborhood disputes)
- Leisure persuits
- Astronomy
- Allotment gardening
- Small-animal breeding
- Sailing
- Discussion and philosophical circles
- Membership
- German Sport and Gymnastic Union (DTSB)
- Membership
- Subdivided groups
- 3.7 million members
- Original intention= Boost mass and children youth sport + promote top level sport
- Activities
- "Join in stay fit" campaigne
- Assisted with the construction of paths and organised walks
- 35 separate sports federations, athletics, football... all under DTSB wing
- Membership
- Free Trade Union Federation (FDGB)
- Activities
- State-run Organisation
- Representing "true" interests of workers
- Took complaints
- Working conditiongs
- Management
- Health and Safety
- Membership
- Over 9 MILLION members
- Perks
- Organisation became taken for granted
- Regular holidays within GDR
- Activities
- Democratic German Womens League (DFD)
- Activities
- Efforts for women to set sights higher
- Work towards taking up leadership and authoritative positions
- evenings in discussions of womanly matters
- Primary focus remained in the domestic sphere
- Efforts for women to set sights higher
- Membership
- Women notoriously apolitical + hard to contain in any of the traditional communist organisations
- Aimed to try to reach out to women and translate the SED's message into more accessible terms
- Housewives apparently unwilling to attend because they were afraid they would have to take on a functionary role"
- Activities
- The Society for German-Soviet Friendship (DSF)
- Membership
- 2nd largest mass organisation after the FDGB (5,500,00 members)
- Bring love of soviet culture to the Germans
- Activities
- Learning Russian Language
- Cultural activities
- Exploration and expression of cultural interests
- Films
- Membership
- 1952: Sport and Technology Association (GST)
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