German Scout Association

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The German Scout Association is an umbrella organization of thirteen independent scout associations in Germany . As a federal association, it represents the interests of around 29,000 children and young people aged up to 27 from all over Germany. The DPV has been an affiliate of the German Federal Youth Association (DBJR) since autumn 2016 .

The association, which is recognized as a non-profit organization, is, like its member associations, interdenominational and politically independent. In addition to representing young people in various public bodies , the tasks of the DPV include planning and organizing large and complex training courses, camps and trips .

history

The DPV emerged from scout groups that left the Association of German Scouts around 1970 because of its increasing politicization and founded their own, mostly regionally oriented scout associations. Initially, these alliances joined together under the name of German Pathfinder eV .

In 1971, this umbrella organization called the involvement of the German Federal scouts in (DPB) German Scout Association to. However, the DPB left the DPV after a few years.

From 1977 to 1995 the DPV was a member of the German Scouting Association (DPR), in which the Catholic Scouts of Europe , the European Scouts Saint Michael , the Christian Scouts of Germany and the Christian Scouts of 1921 were represented.

In May 1985, the DPV submitted an application for membership in the Ring of German Scout Associations (RdP), but it was rejected on the grounds that an association with the Association of Scouts and Scouts (BdP) had to take place beforehand . As a result, there were several discussions and working meetings between the BdP and the DPV in the following years, which ended in 1989 with no results.

At the general meeting in 2007 in Berlin, the Association of Europe Scouts left the DPV, the reason for this being the permanently low membership figures. At the same time, the Boy Scouts & Boy Scout Association Northern Lights was included in the DPV.

In 2007, on the occasion of the centenary of the worldwide scout movement, the Exploris association camp, together with the BdP LV North Rhine-Westphalia, took place in Schwalmtal on the Lower Rhine.

Member associations

As an umbrella organization, the DPV currently brings together thirteen scout associations. The membership numbers and structures of the individual member associations are very different, with the exception of the German Boy Scout Association Mosaik and the Boy Scout Association Globetrotters , all member associations are regionally oriented. Membership ranges from under 100 to as many as 8,000 scouts.

The following scout associations are members of the DPV (as of 2010):

Associate members:

  • Free scouting

Former members:

  • German Scouts Landesmark Westfalen (merged in 2010 in the Boy Scout Association Boreas)
  • German Scout Association (resigned)
  • German Boy Scout Association Nordland (joined the German Boy Scout Association Hamburg in 2011)
  • German Scout Association Gau Westland (merged with the Boy Scout Association Boreas in 2010)
  • Europe Scouts (resigned)
  • Boy Scout Association South (resigned)
  • Scouts Grenzland (joined the German Scout Association Mosaik in 2011)
  • Scouting Phoenix (merged in 2010 in the Boy Scout Association Boreas)
  • Scouting Nordmark (merged with the Boy Scout Association Boreas)
  • Fellhorst sailing school (DPB founded, but across the board)
  • Association of German Scouts (joined the Boreas Scout Association in 2018)

literature

  • Hansdieter Wittke: Freedom in connection: the German Scout Association . Deutscher Spurbuchverlag, Baunach 1990. ISBN 3-88778-165-1
  • Reinhard Schmoeckel : Strategy of an infiltration. From scout association to revolutionary cell. Günter Olzog Verlag, Munich 1979, ISBN 3-7892-7141-1 .
  • German Boy Scout Association (Ed.): Documentation , self-published, Cologne 1977–2005, Volumes 1–6

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Individual evidence