Free German Youth founded

On 7 March 1946 in Berlin, the Soviet Military Administration in Germany (SMAD) permits the founding of the „Free German Youth“ as a „non-partisan, democratic and unified“ youth organisation. Erich Honecker assumes chairmanship. In the DDR, founded three years later, the FDJ will develop into a mass organisation with the goal of educating young people in the „spirit of Marxism-Leninism“.

Source: gegen-diktatur.de The leadership of the FDJ in 1946 (Fourth from the right: Erich Honecker)