The GRÜNE JUGEND (English: Green Youth; abbreviated: GJ) is the youth organization linked to Bündnis 90/Die Grünen.
The GRÜNE JUGEND was founded on January 16, 1994, as an independent association with the name Grün-Alternatives Jugendbündnis (abbreviated: GAJB).
Before 1994 there were several state-based associations, such as the Grüne Jugend Hessen, which was already founded in the spring of 1991. It used and still uses a frog as its logo. In the same spring the Grün-Alternative Jugend Baden-Württemberg was founded. Parallel to these state-based organizations was the federal Bundesjugendkontaktstelle (Abbreviated: BUJUKS), a loose network of young members and sympathisers of Die Grünen.
After several years of debate, the a federal green youth organization was founded, in which the state-based organizations and the BUJUKS all merged. In 2001 the GJ became an integral part of the Die Grünen and lost its independent status.
The GRÜNE JUGEND is a Basisgruppe within Bündnis 90/Die Grünen. It has 6,000 members some of which are members of a state-based organizations, while others are direct members of the federal organization, this is about 10% of the membership of the entire party. Membership ends in the year one becomes 28 year old.