Trip name

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Drive name , even Scouts Name , Scout Name , Indians name or totem are called, by many members of the Boy Scouts - and the youth movement born in Germany, Austria and Switzerland. There are groups in which only individual members have a trip name, in others they are widespread. Trip names are often derived, similar to nicknames , from an experience or a peculiarity of the person, whereby an already existing nickname is sometimes used. In some groups there is a special baptism ritual or the name of the trip is officially awarded. In groups that (consciously or unconsciously ) follow the tradition of the German Young Society of November 1, 1929 (dj.1.11), names of trips are written in lower case.

The special thing about trip names is that in many cases only the trip name is used at the meetings of the associations, so that it is often difficult to recall the real name of a person even after years. The name of the trip is also often used when signing letters and even when publishing in a federal framework, so that many people are better known by their name of the trip with the addition of their federal government than by their real name. Address lists therefore usually contain both names. In their use, trip names are mostly limited to the framework of the boy scout and youth movement.

history

As part of the German youth movement , trip names can be traced back to the time when the Wandervogel was founded . During this time, its groups were threatened with being dissolved as a forbidden student association, which suggests a similar origin of trip names and the beer names of the student associations.

Also in the scout movement there seems to have been trip names early on. Names such as totem and Indian name suggest influences from the Woodcraft movement and Kibbo Kift . In 1919, Baden-Powell , the founder of the Boy Scout Movement, rejected the practice of names based on Indian models.

These two originally different traditions began to mix after the First World War , when the influences of the wandering bird and the scout movement began to mix in the context of the Bundische Jugend . They found different forms in numerous different leagues. In Switzerland , trip names came up in the 1920s , and they were widespread in the German Freischar founded in 1926 through the merger of various associations .

For the Hitler Youth it was of particular importance in the expansion of their influence that in the spring of 1933 they obtained the card index with the addresses of the leaders of the youth leagues from the office of the Reich Committee of the German Youth Associations , because this made it possible to identify the former can often only be identified by the name of the youth leader.

When the boy scout associations and the associations of the Bündische Jugend were banned in the Third Reich in 1934 , the names of the journeys for their porters, insofar as they did not want to give up the Bündische life, often became code names without any particular transition . The fact that the real name was often unknown during encounters often protected other people involved after arrests and interrogations. If the investigators, on the other hand, came across documents that revealed the identity of the people, this often had serious consequences for those exposed in this way. An example of this is the Bündische Selbstschutz , an organization that started out in Frankfurt am Main and built a network in various cities that was supposed to facilitate the implementation of trips . Here the issue of membership cards turned out to be a big mistake as it made it easier to identify members.

Trip names remained in use after 1945 until today.

Examples

Here are some people who achieved a high level of awareness under their journey name:

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Florian Malzacher: Youth Movement for Beginners , Witzenhausen 1993, p. 18. ISBN 3-88258-124-7
  2. ↑ Florian Malzacher : Youth Movement for Beginners , Witzenhausen 1993, p. 14. ISBN 3-88258-124-7
  3. ↑ Robert Baden-Powell in November 1919 in Headquarters Gazett (quoted from fr: Totem (scoutisme) #Robert Baden-Powell ): “Je prétends qu'un garçon pour devenir un vrai scout, suivant l'idéal tracé par le chef, n 'a nullement besoin de recevoir un nom. Il n'est pas indispensable qu'il s'appelle Tigre Bleu ou Loup Vert, ni qu'il porte une robe bigarré au lieu de la chemise scoute et des plumes dans les cheveux… Rêver que vous êtes un scout me paraît contenir plus d 'idéal et de romanesque, plus de pensées pratiques de dévouement et de bonheur que de rêver que vous êtes Peau-Rouge. "
  4. ↑ club scout exhibition Zurich: Scout, past and present, put together for the exhibition "100 Years of Scouting in Zurich" in the Stadthaus Zurich (April-August 2012) , Zurich 2012, p. 6
  5. ↑ Hiltraud Casper-Hehne: On the language of the Bundischen youth. Using the example of the German Freischar , Tübingen 1989, p. 155f. ISBN 3-484-31091-X
  6. ^ Wolfgang Paul: The field camp. Youth between Langemarck and Stalingrad , Esslingen 1980, p. 227f. ISBN 3-453-01254-2
  7. ^ Jürgen Steen: Youth in National Socialist Frankfurt , Frankfurt 1987, p. 72. ISBN 3-89282-008-2
  8. ↑ Arno Klönne: Against the current. Report on youth resistance in the Third Reich , Hanover / Frankfurt am Main 1957, p. 8.
  9. ↑ Susanna Keval: Resistance and Self-Assertion in Frankfurt am Main 1933-1945 , Frankfurt am Main / New York 1988, pp. ISBN 3-593-34005-4