Association of German Hikers
The Bund Deutscher Wanderer (BDW) was an association of schoolchildren and adults with an influence on the early youth movement .
history
On September 22, 1905, five Unterprimaner , one of them the later founder of the German Academic Freischar Knud Ahlborn , and two merchants of the same age founded the Hamburg hiking club . Due to the fact that two of the members were merchants, the hiking club was considered an association in the sense of the civil code and was therefore not subject to school supervision. In the founding statutes of the association it was written:
"The purpose of the association is to organize excursions in the area around Hamburg for physical strengthening and to raise interest in nature and sociable associations, to initiate informal traffic and to provide mutual support and instruction."
From 1906 the association published the magazine Der Wanderer - a monthly magazine for youth and wanderlust . Within a year the association grew to more than 100 members. Further groups were founded in other cities, which in 1909 came together to form the Bund Deutscher Wandervereine , which later became the Bund Deutscher Wanderer . By mid-1913 the federation had grown to 4,000 members in 140 local groups. In addition to the hikes, there were lecture evenings with academic standards. Ahlborn saw an essential distinguishing feature from the Wandervogel in the BDW's “... shared desire to shape the present and the future ...”. A special cooperation existed with the student German Academic Freischar, which was manifested in a joint working group in 1913. The federal colors of the BDW were black-blue-gold, the replica of a federal flag is exhibited in the memorial room of the Ludwigstein youth castle .
The association was a co-founder of the Free German Youth and co-host of the First Free German Youth Day on the Hoher Meissner in October 1913.
In the festschrift for the centenary on the Hohe Meißner, an ideal of the federal government is described as follows:
"From hiker to human, that is our knowledge and our goal."
In the same place it is written about the Wandervogel:
"Besides our mighty cousin, the Wandervogel, we are only a small flock, scattered all over the empire, but united by a common striving for a solid bond."
Known members
- Knud Ahlborn , doctor
- Ferdinand Goebel - Wandervogel, editor of numerous newspapers and publications
- Christian Schneehagen , co-organizer of the First Free German Youth Day
- Karl Voelkel , settler and organic farmer, pioneer of what would later become the Voelkel organic press
literature
- Sigrid Bias-Engels: Between Wandering Bird and Science - On the History of the Youth Movement and Student Body 1896-1920. Edition archive of the German youth movement. Vol. 4. Verlag Wissenschaft und Politik, Cologne 1988. ISBN 3-8046-8709-1
- Winfried Mogge, Jürgen Reulecke: Hoher Meißner 1913 - The First Free German Youth Day in Documents, Interpretations and Pictures. Edition archive of the German youth movement. Vol. 5. Verlag Wissenschaft und Politik, Cologne 1988. ISBN 3-8046-8723-7
Individual evidence
- ^ Memorial room, Ludwigstein Youth Castle. (PDF; 674 kB) (No longer available online.) Formerly in the original ; Retrieved November 20, 2010 . ( Page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
