History
It was founded by students in Freiburg im Breisgau in 1986 as a reaction to as what they saw as the dominance of the leftist 68's generation among university teachers. In 1993 it moved its headquarters to Potsdam, near Berlin, and to Hohenzollerndamm in Berlin in 1995. In 1994, a printing site for the JF in Weimar was fire-bombed by left-wing terrorists with damage totalling 2.5 million marks. The paper moved to Berlin a few years later, where it continues to be published today.
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