German Boy Scout Association Namibia
| German Boy Scout Association Namibia | |
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| legal form | society |
| founding | 1917 (1990) |
| Seat |
 Windhoek
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| main emphasis | Promotion of the development of young German-speaking people |
| Members | about 65 |
The German Scout Association Namibia is a German-speaking scout association in Namibia . It is headquartered in the capital Windhoek . Further clumps were in Grootfontein and Swakopmund in 2010 .
The German Boy Scout Association in Namibia had around 65 members in 2010, around 10 of them in Windhoek, 17 in Grootfontein and 35 in Swakopmund.
The German Scout Association Namibia is a member of the German Culture Council in Namibia .
history
The first German-speaking boy scout groups in what is now Namibia came into being in Tsumeb in 1924 and in Windhoek in 1926. In April 1928 they joined forces in Omaruru to form the German Scout Association of South West Africa . Girls' groups were founded in Lüderitzbucht in 1932 .
National Socialism and Prohibition
In 1932 an NSDAP foreign branch was founded in South West Africa . The party functionary Erich von Lossnitzer was sent to Windhoek and opened an office there. He tried to integrate the German Boy Scout Association of South West Africa into the Hitler Youth , which he succeeded in 1934.
In Windhoek, the National Socialist officials organized the German Youth Day , which took place from July 5th to 8th, 1934. First all the German scouts in South West Africa were greeted by Erich von Lossnitzer, then a torchlight procession through Windhoek took place. The play Schlageter was performed, which is about an act of sabotage in the occupied Ruhr area . In the end there was a parade in Windhoek, led by von Lossnitzer. He wore a Hitler Youth uniform and a swastika armband. The boy scouts present professed to be Nazi Germans.
This march violated the laws of the League of Nations Mandate Area South West Africa and was at the same time a clear provocation against its administrative authorities. Erich von Lossnitzer was expelled from the country and the activities of the NSDAP with the Hitler Youth and the Boy Scout Association were forbidden by the SWA administrator and prohibited by an ordinance of October 29, 1934 ( Notice No. 141 of 1934 ) of the Union government. Thus the mandate authorities declared the Nazi Party again for unlawful ( " unlawful ") organization after early as 1933 by the SWA Legislative Assembly ( Criminal Amendment Ordinance , No. 13 of 1933 ) was banned any Nazi propaganda in South West Africa, and the operation of the NSDAP.
New establishment and renewed ban
In 1935, with the approval of the authorities, a new scout association was founded with the German scouts from South West Africa . Since the term federal government was banned in the name, the name change came about. Its members were still allowed to wear the southwest with a black-white-red cockade, the association flag was a variant of the Reich War flag with a stylized camel thorn in place of the Prussian eagle. After a short time, the organization comprised 1200 boys and girls in thirteen local groups called Horsten and a marching band. In 1937 the Südwesterlied was composed by Heinz Anton Klein-Werner (1912–1981) for the boy scouts; it is still the official anthem of the German Boy Scout Association in Namibia. With the outbreak of World War II, the organization was again banned.
After the Second World War
Between 1962 and 1965, with the support of the South African mandate authority, work was carried out on the establishment of a German-speaking scout association, which then took place in 1965 under the name of the German Scout Association of South West Africa . This association worked with the English-speaking South-West Africa Division of the Boy Scouts of South Africa and the Boer Voortrekkers until Namibia's independence .
In 1990 the German Scout Association of Namibia received its current name.
External presentation
The German Scout Association of Namibia represents a traditional cultural image of Germany and the history of the former German South West Africa . His uniforms are similar to those of the German Schutztruppe and the scout flag from the 1930s, which is derived from the Reich war flag, is used to this day. In 2001 the southwest hat that was part of the uniform was replaced by a baseball cap .
Other German-speaking scout groups
There are also German-speaking groups in the WOSM member association Scouts of Namibia , including in Windhoek and Otjiwarongo . Former members of the German scout groups are organized in the Swakopmund Old Scout Guild , an extraordinary member of the Association of German Old Scout Guilds .
literature
- German Boy Scout Association of South West Africa (Ed.): The German Boy Scouts in South West Africa from their beginnings to 1939. Windhoek 1987.
- German Boy Scout Federation of South West Africa (Ed.): The German Boy Scout Federation of South West Africa: (1965); Reports, stories, poems, photos and drawings of twenty-five years of scouting activity in South West Africa. Windhoek 1990.
- Golf Dornseif: Southwestern scouts between all fronts. Aschaffenburg 2008. ( available online ; PDF; 3.3 MB)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Always ready - the scout movement in Namibia is becoming more and more popular, Allgemeine Zeitung, February 25, 2011 ( Memento of November 2, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ DiN contacts database, German Pfadfinderbund Namibia accessed April 21, 2011
- ↑ a b Always ready - The boy scouts have a tradition in Namibia for almost 100 years - Today the Bund is looking for young talent, Allgemeine Zeitung, March 19, 2010 ( Memento of July 22, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ a b c d Golf Dornseif: Southwest scouts between all fronts ( memento from July 19, 2011 in the Internet Archive ). (PDF; 3.3 MB)
- ^ André du Pisani : SWA / Namibia: The politics of Continuity and Change . Jonathan Ball Publishers , Johannesburg 1986. pp. 78-79 ISBN 0-86850-092-5
- ^ A b Golf Dornseif, Manfred Rauschenberger: German scouts in the former German South West Africa. Working Group Pathfinder eV, Working Group in the Association of German Philatelists , accessed on May 9, 2017 .