Bronze wolf
The Bronze Wolf is the only award given by the World Organization of the Scout Movement (WOSM), the largest of the world scout associations . This happens with special merits to the worldwide scout movement .
history
The Bronze Wolf award was first introduced at the International Committee meeting in Stockholm on August 2, 1935. The committee awarded it unanimously to the founder of the scout movement Robert Baden-Powell .
Before that, Baden-Powell itself always awarded a Silver Wolf to deserving scouts from every country. Although he did so in his capacity as the top scout in the world organization and bestowed the award worldwide, it was mostly associated with the British scout movement. To the growing need of other organizations to satisfy and to a flood of decorations to avoid one created in agreement with Baden-Powell the Bronze Wolf . It is worn around the neck on a brown scarf with a yellow border.
Consistent with the Committee's opinion that the award should only be presented for excellence, only twelve such awards have been presented in the first 20 years since its inception. One of the first winners is the Swiss Walther von Bonstetten , who received the medal in 1937. The strict regulations of that time no longer apply, and so today there is one bronze wolf for every two million members . Up to 2002 a total of 320 decorations had been awarded.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Scout.org (English, unfortunately no longer available on the original site) ( Memento from June 15, 2013 in the Internet Archive )