Overview

• About 150 young members and supporters attended the founding congress in Bochum, where 113 cast votes to formalise the Jugendbündnis im BSW’s structure.
• Anastasia Wirsing, a 21-year-old teaching student from Jena, was elected chair of the new youth wing’s federal board.
• The Jugendbündnis operates as an internal working group open to non-party members aged 14 to 35 and will establish state chapters nationwide.
• Its programme rejects conscription and higher defence spending while calling for increased investment in schools, infrastructure and the broader economy.
• BSW aims to grow its total membership from around 2,800 to 10,000 by year-end as it builds momentum ahead of state elections in Sachsen-Anhalt, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern and Berlin.