Earlier youth organizations[edit]
The oldest organisation that was similar to the YMCA is the SBA, founded in 1787 as the Lediger Verein.[citation needed] In 1834, the BremenJünglingsverein was founded in northern Germany.[citation needed] The Nazis would close all German Jünglingsvereine in the 1930s, but they would be re-established after the war as CVJMs. The oldest association in the United Kingdom similar to the YMCA was founded in Scotland in 1824 as the Glasgow Young Men's Society for Religious Improvement.[citation needed] The French Société Philadelphique was founded in Nîmes in 1843.[citation needed]