Academy for Youth Leadership

The Academy for Youth Leadership (German: Akademie für Jugendführung), a school in Braunschweig for Hitler Youth (HJ) leaders, was the highest Nazi training-facility for the training of full-time junior executives for the Hitler Youth movement in the Third Reich. Its premises were built between 1937 and 1939. Since 2001 the Braunschweig College for Adult Education and the Abendgymnasium Braunschweig have been housed in this building.

Any "Hitler Youth who [was] above reproach in terms of descent, health, performance, and behavior" was eligible for the one-year academy course if he had completed his labor- and military-service and had already taken some leadership courses. Successful completion of the Academy course obligated the graduate to twelve years of HJ service. The Academy had little effect because World War II began soon after its founding.