Boy Scout Association Great Hunter

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The Pfadfinderbund Great Hunter is an independent since 1958 bündischer Pfadfinderbund , which is rooted in the tribe established in 1945. Large Raiders of the BDP has. It is not bound by party politics or denomination and today consists of six tribes in northern Hesse, southern Lower Saxony and Münster with a total of around 200 members. He was instrumental in founding the Ring of Young Fraternities and was a member of it until 2013.

history

1945 to 1949: The Großer Jäger tribe

In December 1945 Sigurd Sürth ( trip name Teifi) received the license from the American occupation authorities to found a scout group in the Wolfhagen district . In the following years he founded numerous clans in Northern Hesse, whose leadership he passed on to others as soon as suitable clan leaders were found. This is how the Großer Jäger tribe came into being, which has belonged to the BDP - Hessen since it was founded. Also independently founded scout groups from Hofgeismar and Hann. Münden joined the tribe in the following years, so that its membership grew quickly. With the establishment of the first clan in Kassel at the beginning of 1948, the Großer Jäger had essentially found its later area of ​​distribution.

In the summer of 1948, the Großer Jäger tribe resigned from the German Scouts (a forerunner organization of the Federation of German Scouts) "in protest against scoutist and militaristic tendencies in the newly formed boy scout movement" and founded the "Jungebund Großer Jäger".

In its founding phase, the Großer Jäger was mainly shaped by two people who had already been active in the youth movement before 1934 : Sigurd Sürth initially belonged to the DPB - Berlin , and later he was a member of the Großer Jäger tribe of the Freischar . Franz Mollwo (journey name Teddy) came from Hamburg and before 1934 he and his clan had successively belonged to the Nerother Wandervogel and the Jungschaft Trucht or Jungentrucht .

1949 to 1958: Gau Großer Jäger in the BDP

With the separation from the previous tribal or federal leader Teifi at the beginning of 1949, the great hunter decided to return to the BDP, where his tribal leaders soon became involved in the state leadership of the State of Hesse, with the aim of spreading allied forms of work promote. Alfred Stahl from Hofgeismar became the new federal leader. During these years the Great Hunter was known under the names "Bund Orion", "Bund Großer Jäger", "Gau Großer Jäger" and occasionally also "Gau Nordhessen".

In the years from 1952, with the help of the members, a country home was built near Hofgeismar, which became the center of federal activities. The federal leadership changed in 1953 from Alfred Stahl to Heinz-Hermann Otto and in the following year finally to Horst Schweitzer from Kassel.

Between 1955 and 1957, boys from the GDR were taken on big trips. Since these activities were illegal, little written information has come down to us, but it is certain that eight boys went on a big trip with them in 1955, one of them even to Corsica , which was made possible by the support of the Hofgeismar district administrator . In 1956 at least two boys were involved, in 1957 probably only one.

Between 1957 and 1965 there were seven camps for Berlin boys; boys from East Berlin also took part in the first.

The Grosse Jäger met the increasing pressure to standardize the BDP in the 1950s with incomprehension and resistance. The demands for the introduction of a uniform kerchief , compulsory training camps for prospective clan leaders, the compulsory subscription to the "boys' life" (Federal newspaper of the BDP) and the classification in the structure of the BDP, which is structured according to national brands ( federal states ) were not bowed to.

1958 to 1970: Boy Scout Association Großer Jäger and Horst Schweitzer affair

The dispute with the BDP ended in the spring of 1958 with the admission of two clans from Berlin to the Große Jäger and the simultaneous withdrawal from the BDP. The now independent federation was given the name "Boy Scout Association Großer Jäger".

In the following years the big hunters developed an independent and diverse federal life, the highlights of which were the Troy camp in 1961 at Ludwigstein Castle , the federal trip with 180 boys to Finland in the summer of 1963 and the Meißner camp in autumn 1963 , which the great hunters played a key role in preparing were involved. As a result of the Meißner camp, the Boy Scout Association Großer Jäger played a key role in founding the ring of young leagues to which it belonged for almost 50 years. Contacts existed at this time, above all, to Pfadfinderschaft Gray Rider , the Scout Association North Baden and the DPB .

In 1965, the then federal leader Horst Schweitzer, against the resistance of some tribes, pushed through the construction of the "boarding school", a student dormitory in which about twenty boys were to live together in everyday life in the spirit of the covenant idea. The conflict that sparked it led to the fact that the opponents of the building left the federal government (three tribes with over a third of the members at the time) and joined the Association of German Youths as the Meissner youth group. The boarding school started operating at Pentecost 1966. But there were not enough adult big hunters willing to volunteer to support the project, it was difficult to find enough suitable students, and the implementation of the alliance did not succeed as expected. In addition, Horst Schweitzer proved to be unsuitable as the educational director of the boarding school. In 1969 a federal clan leader to whom a boy had confided was brought charges of sexual assault. Schweitzer was replaced as boarding school director and finally excluded from the Boy Scout Association in July 1970 because he did not stay away from the boys' groups, as requested. The preliminary investigation was later closed. The boarding school was initially continued, but in 1970 the all-inclusive idea of ​​the student dormitory was abandoned and in 1977 it was finally closed.

At the end of the 1960s, the tribes got increasingly into trouble, some disbanded in 1968-70. The Luchs tribe joined the German Boy Scout Association (DPB) under the leadership of the excluded former federal leader Schweitzer as a young lynx group and later became independent as the lynx scouting body .

1970 to 1980

With the takeover of federal leadership by Frieder Luthardt, a comprehensive reconstruction of the federal government began, the forms and content of which were partly based on the emerging BdP . In 1974/75 an extension was built on the country home. From around 1974 Alfred Stahl became the tribal leader of the Black Panthers again in Hofgeismar. A big event was the regional meeting at the Allenspacher Hof in 1977 with over 1400 scouts from Germany.

The early 1980s brought a renewed approach to the Bundische ideology, a development which, however, did not have the same effect in all tribes.

In 1985 the top floor and the first floor were almost completely destroyed by a fire in the Landheim. The resulting pressures led to conflicts between the tribes. There was a considerable loss of members.

1990 until today

In 1990 the organization was threatened with liquidation due to a lack of financial support and a lack of management staff. Some "old boy scouts" and parents agreed to take over the board of directors of the parent and support association of the great hunters. In 1992 Sven Schäfer was elected federal leader, the activities were continued in Kassel, Hofgeismar and Bad Arolsen. In 1994 the Landheim Hofgeismar was again added to the Landheim Hofgeismar with grants from the State of Hesse to enlarge and modernize the sanitary facilities. The rebuilding phase of the organization culminated in 1996 with the celebration of the 50th anniversary of the federal government. At the end of the same year, Ulrich Köhler was elected federal leader.

In 1999 the Boy Scout Association of the Großer Jäger became a registered association .

On the occasion of the 60th anniversary of the federal government in 2006, a book was published that comprehensively describes the history of the great hunters.

After decades of isolation by the federal government, contacts with other associations - such as the Gray Rider Boy Scout and the Lynx Boy Scout - were re-established. The scouting group Luchs with the tribes Friedensreiter (Münster) and Luchs (Kassel) joined the scout association Großer Jäger at the 2011 Whitsun camp.

In 2013, after almost 50 years, the Boy Scout Association, Großer Jäger, left the ring of young leagues .

Places where there were or are Great Hunters

  • Zierenberg : Deer clan (1945–49)
  • Hofgeismar : Tribe Black Panther (since 1946), Tribe Tiger (1946–1954), Tribe Wildcats (1947–51), Tribe Eisbären (1947–51), Tribe Jaguar (1947–49), Tribe Luchs / Hofgeismar (1968–70 )
  • Hann. Münden : Tribe Junge Kameradschaft (1947–65), Tribe Regenpfeifer (since 1965)
  • Kassel : Tribe Luchs (1948–70, 2011–2019), Tribe Bären (1948–57), Tribe Drachen (1948–52), Tribe Silberfuchs (since 1951), Tribe Störtebeker (1953–55), Tribe Freibeuter (1966– 70), line Wilhelm Busch (1971–76)
  • Marburg : Werewolf tribe (1950–63)
  • Bonn : part of the Luchs / Kassel tribe (1952–59)
  • Bad Arolsen : tribe Walter Flex (1956–62), tribe Hohenstaufen (since 1962)
  • Korbach : belonging to the Hohenstaufen / Arolsen tribe (1963-66, 1967-79), Argonauten tribe (1966-67)
  • Rotenburg an der Fulda : Tribe Geusen (1958–65)
  • Berlin : Tribe of Mark Brandenburg (1958-77)
  • Hamburg : Hanseatic tribe (1965-67)
  • Münster : Stamm Friedensreiter (since 2011)
  • as well as numerous smaller towns in North Hesse

Known members

Only those members are listed here who have been members for a long time and who have mostly also taken on tasks in the Boy Scout Association of Großer Jäger.

literature

  • Die Sternschnuppe , Nos. 1 to 455, 1948–2007, Federal newspaper of the Boy Scout Association Großer Jäger (available in the archive of the German youth movement ).
  • Boy Scout Association Great Hunter 1945-1960 . Published by the Boy Scout Association Großer Jäger, 1961.
  • A hunter high in the sky. Boy Scout Association Großer Jäger 1945 to 2005 . Published by the Boy Scout Association Großer Jäger, 2006 (197 pages).
  • The Boy Scout Association Großer Jäger maintains an archive in its country home in Hofgeismar in which its history is comprehensively documented.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Sexual Abuse in the Bunds, schwarzzeltvolk.de from June 11, 2013, accessed on March 17, 2015