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{{Infobox Politicalpolitical youth organization

| name_englishname = Young Generation

| name_native native_name = Junge Generation

| logo = [[File:JG Logo 210.jpg|255px]]

| secretary general = Johannes Winkler

| mother_party mother party = [[South Tyrolean People's Party]]

| website = [httphttps://www.svp.eu/de/junge-generation.info/ www.jungejungegeneration-generation963.infohtml Official website]

The '''Young Generation''' ({{lang-langx|de|Junge Generation}}, JG) is the youth organisation of the [[South Tyrolean People's Party]] (SVP), a political party representing the [[German language|German-speaking]] and [[Ladin language|Ladin-speaking]] population of [[South Tyrol]], an Italian province separated from the [[Austrian-Hungarian Empire|Austrian]] territory and annexed to the [[Italian Monarchy]] in 1920 as consequence of the First World War and the [[Treaty of Saint-Germain-en-Laye (1919)|Treaty of Saint-Germain-en-LayeItaly]].<ref>[httphttps://www.jstor.org/pss/20028552 Josef L. Kunz, Italian Rule in German South-Tyrol on www.jstore.org], visited 9 October 2010</ref>

The Young Generation has about 6,000 members and is therefore the largest political youth organisation in [[South Tyrol]] and is the community of all party members of the SVP at the age of 14 to 30. The JG has about 100 local groups spread over the whole territory. President of the organisation is René Tumler, who was elected from the congress thogetertogether with his deputies in March 2014. The JG is the youth branch of the SVP and wants to be the spokesman of the young people within the party.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.stol.it/Artikel/Politik-im-Ueberblick/Lokal/Neue-JG-Bleiben-kritische-Stimme-innerhalb-der-SVP |title=Neue JG: "Bleiben kritische Stimme innerhalb der SVP" |language=German |date=9 June 2010 |website=Südtirol Online |accessdate=8 October 2010 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20100612212237/http://www.stol.it/Artikel/Politik-im-Ueberblick/Lokal/Neue-JG-Bleiben-kritische-Stimme-innerhalb-der-SVP |archivedate=12 June 2010 }}</ref>

The Young Generation was founded as '''Youth of the SVP''' (''SVP-Jugend'') on 19 April 1970 during the first congress at the Waltherhaus in Bolzano. The first elected president was Hans Benedikter. Hans Bauer and Klaus Dubis were his deputies, Ferdinand Mussner was the Ladin deputy and Klaus Gruber was elected as secretary general. The creation of local groups began since 1966/67. Erich Spitaler was appointed in 1967 as president of the youth branch of the SVP and he was charged to develop the youth organisation. The first statute was adopted by the council of the mother party in 1968. The ''SVP-Jugend'' had a fast grow and in 1969 105 local groups and 244 local youth speaker were count.<ref>[http://www.60jahre-svp.org/zeitleiste/1970.html 60 years SVP - year 1970] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110724210427/http://www.60jahre-svp.org/zeitleiste/1970.html |date=24 July 2011 }}, visited 3 October 2010</ref>

The Young Generation is member of different international umbrella organisations, as the [[Youth of the European Peoples Party]] (YEPP),<ref>[http://youthepp.eu/members Member Organisations of YEPP] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120120045217/http://youthepp.eu/members |date=20 January 2012 }}, visited 19 February 2012</ref> the [[Democrat Youth Community of Europe]] (DEMYC)<ref>[http://www.demyc.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=5&Itemid=9 Member Organisations of DEMYC] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100311041236/http://www.demyc.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=5&Itemid=9 |date=11 March 2010 }}, visited 3 October 2010</ref> and the Young Alps Region (''Junge Alpenregion'').<ref>[http://fbsd-rupertiwinkel.homepage.t-online.de/JungeAlpenregion/html/uber_uns.html Member Organisations of Junge Alpenregion] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110719090323/http://fbsd-rupertiwinkel.homepage.t-online.de/JungeAlpenregion/html/uber_uns.html |date=19 July 2011 }}, visited 3 October 2010</ref> The Young Generation is actively proposing resolutions within these international organisations.<ref>[http://www.suedtirolnews.it/d/artikel/2010/08/25/jg-fordert-endlich-eine-loesung-fuer-faschistische-relikte.html Article on www.suedtirolnews.it], visited 8 October 2010 {{waybackwebarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110722054027/http://www.suedtirolnews.it/d/artikel/2010/08/25/jg-fordert-endlich-eine-loesung-fuer-faschistische-relikte.html |date=2011072205402722 |df=yJuly 2011 }}</ref><ref>[http://www.suedtirolnews.it/d/artikel/2009/12/01/alpenraum-soll-energie-vorzeigeregion-werden.html Article on www.suedtirolnews.it], visited 8 October 2010 {{waybackwebarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091203215025/http://www.suedtirolnews.it/d/artikel/2009/12/01/alpenraum-soll-energie-vorzeigeregion-werden.html |date=200912032150253 |df=yDecember 2009 }}</ref>

*[https://web.archive.org/web/20110208152435/http://www.junge-generation.info/ Official website] {{dein iconlang|de}}