German Scout Association (1929)
The German Scout Association was an umbrella organization of German Scout Associations , founded on October 20, 1929 , to represent German Scouting at home and abroad.
history
The forerunner of the German Scout Association was the "Joint Foreign Office of the German Scout Associations" founded in 1928 by the Federation of German Scout Scouts (BdR), the German Scout Association (DPB), the Colonial Scouts and other associations and headed by Eberhard Plewe . It was created in response to the founding of the German Scout Association , funded by the International Bureau (IB) , in which some small scout associations had come together.
In 1929 the German Boy Scout Association developed from this , which comprised the Federation of Reich Scouts, the Federation of German Colonial Scouts , the Christian Scouting Association of Germany , the German Scouting Association, the Colonial Association of German Scouts, the German Scouting Association and the Association of German Scouts .
In 1930, the Christian Scouting Association of Germany and the Ringgemeinschaft deutscher Scouts resigned from the association, as they rejected the conversion of the open association into a closed alliance intended by Plewe, the DPB and the BdR. In the same year, the Association of German Colonial Scouts stopped working in the DPV, but remained a member of the association. At the beginning of 1931 another alliance left the DPV with the German Scouting Association; it formed a working group with other German national associations and refused to join the international scout movement.
From July 1931 onwards there were talks with the IB regarding the inclusion of the association in the World Scout Movement, which in fact took place in August 1931. The official confirmation was to take place in 1933 at the Jamboree in Gödöllő ( Hungary ), which prevented the National Socialists from coming to power and the dissolution of its largest member associations.
From mid-1932 the DPV gained more members: First, the New German Scout Association and the German Scout Association applied for membership; Both leagues joined forces with the BdR in 1932 to form the Reichsschaft Deutscher Pfadfinder , which was confirmed as a member of the DPV in January 1933. In March 1933 the Christian Scouting Association of Germany returned to the DPV, at the same time the German Freischar was admitted. With this all major German scout associations were united in the association.
As early as June 1933, the DPV lost a substantial part of its members: with the dissolution of the Greater German Confederation on June 21, 1933, the DPB and the German Freischar were also dissolved. The Colonial Scouts joined the Hitler Youth on August 1, 1933 . The German Scout Association survived only slightly longer: It was banned on February 19, 1934, the Reichsschaft Deutscher Scouting Association - most recently the only member - followed on May 26, 1934.
Individual evidence
- ^ Rudolf Kneip : Youth in the Weimar period. Handbook of youth associations 1919 - 1938. dipa-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1st edition 1974, ISBN 3-7638-0211-8 , p. 98 ff.