Scouting lynx

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The lynx lily is the federal symbol

The Boy Scouting Luchs was a Bundischer boy scout federation that existed from 1988 to 2011 , the specialty of which was that it had clans not only in Germany , but also in Spain for many years . The lynx scouting body had its roots in the lynx tribe of the scout association Großer Jäger , founded in 1948 , from which the tribe left in 1970. In 2011, the Lynx scouting group returned to its roots and rejoined the Großer Jäger Boy Scout Association.

The lynx scouting body was a member of the ring of young leagues .

history

1948 to 1970: The lynx in the Great Hunter

→ Main article: Boy Scout Association Großer Jäger

On February 26, 1948, Horst Schweitzer (1928–2006) founded the Luchs clan in Kassel , which belonged to the Großer Jäger tribe at the time, from which the Großer Jäger Gau in the Federation of German Scouts emerged in 1949 and the Großer Jäger Boy Scout Association in 1958.

When the Kassel tribes of the Großer Jäger Gau formed in the autumn of 1949, the clan gave its name to the Luchs tribe, of which Horst Schweitzer became the chief. The importance of the tribe increased when in 1952 Horst Schweitzer initially took over the editing of the “Sternschnuppe” - that is the federal newspaper of the Great Hunters - and in 1954 also the federal leadership of the Great Hunters. In this capacity, among other things, he was heavily involved in bringing boys from the GDR on large trips (1955–57) and for the leisure time for Berlin children (1957–65). In 1965 he finally pushed through the construction of the so-called boarding school in Hofgeismar , a Bundische student dormitory, whose management he took over free of charge and whose cubs also initially belonged to the Luchs tribe.

In addition to the federal trips to Finland in 1963 and to Crete in 1968 , the largest trips of this time were the trip to Egypt in 1959 and the trip to Turkey in 1962, which took the clan leaders to countries that were largely unknown at the time.

Already in these years the founder mentality of the lynx became evident, which later would enable the successful establishment of an independent association. The Silberfuchs tribe in Kassel and the Bonn clans were founded by lynxes, and Horst Schweitzer himself founded the first clans in Arolsen , from which today's Hohenstaufen tribe emerged. In addition, the tribe of privateers in Kassel split off from the lynx in 1966.

After Horst Schweitzer had to give up the federal leadership and the editing of the “Sternschnuppe” in 1969 and was finally excluded from the Boy Scout Association of Great Hunters in 1970, the lynx decided to leave this association.

1970 to 1988: Luchs boys and girls in the German Scout Association

→ Main article: German Scout Association (1945)

After leaving the Großer Jäger Boy Scout Association, the lynx intensified the contacts they had made with the German Boy Scout Association at the end of the 1950s, which they officially joined at Pentecost 1971. At the same time, Horst Schweitzer took over the editing of his national newspaper “neue fährte”. Shortly afterwards, in the summer of 1971, the first group of lynx girls emerged in Kassel and was integrated into the DPB girls' association.

A more profound change brought Horst Schweitzer's move to Barcelona in 1972 , where he had accepted a teaching position at the German School . In the same year the first Spanish lynx clan was founded there, followed by the first girl clan in Spain the following year. At that time, scouts were still banned in Spain (although the work of individual groups was tolerated), and therefore the scouting work took place under the guise of recreational activities at the German School. The intensive cooperation between the German and Spanish clans resulted in numerous international friendships and even some marriages.

In 1974 the lynx were given permanent accommodation again, both in Spain, where Casa Rourell, a farm near Moià , was leased, and in Germany, where they were given a hut near Zierenberg .

In the following year, 1975, a family from Barcelona returned to Germany and their sons then founded the first lynx clan in Lemgo. The number of lynxes increased rapidly in the 1970s, and by 1978 there were already 23 clans, around half of them in Spain. They now had as many members as the Great Hunters Scout Association, which they had left eight years earlier. But growth continued: in 1979 a family moved from Barcelona to Madrid , whereupon the first clan of many was founded there too. As in Barcelona, ​​it was the German school there from which most of the members came.

The eighties were a little less stormy, but with the Canada Grand Tour in 1987 they brought a previously unrepeatable high point. On this trip the decision was made to leave the DPB, with which there had been increasing tensions, as the lynx did not want to fit into its structures. The resignation was officially announced in 1988.

1988 to 2011: Lynx scouting

After the lynx had become an independent scout association, a stormy development began again. In 1990, the first clans were founded in Münster and Wernigerode - it is probably one of the earliest foundings in the new federal states . In the same year an old mill, el Molí del Perer, very close to Casa Rourell, the farmhouse, was also leased in Spain. In 1993 the Köhlerhütten near Wernigerode were added.

For this work, the establishment of new groups in Spain became noticeably more difficult, so that the German clans gained in importance. A serious disappointment was the loss of Casa Rourell in 1996, whose lease was not renewed.

In 2002 Horst Schweitzer, who had shaped the lynx for 54 years since it was founded, had to give up active scouting work for health reasons. The until then strictly hierarchical federation, headed by Horst Schweitzer, got into a crisis after Horst Schweitzer left.

The 2003 first democratically elected national leadership to René Kabelitz, managed the federal government from the ground up to restructure and to overcome the difficulties. In the search for like-minded people, they came across the Gray Rider Boy Scouts , and after decades of ignoring each other, they dared to contact the Großer Jäger Boy Scout Association . The similarities between the two fraternities were greater than expected, and so two common Pentecost camps in 2006 and 2007 followed. The Pentecost camp in 2008 became a camp of three fraternities, because the Gray Riders were also added.

In summer 2008 Daniel Mohn became federal leader.

In spring 2010, at the same time as the sexual assaults within the Catholic Church were revealed, Horst Schweitzer's sexual assaults both within the Lynx scouting and in his function as a teacher became known. The Lynx scouting body officially distanced itself from Horst Schweitzer in March 2010. A few weeks later, a corresponding declaration by the “Friends of the Pathfinder Association Luchs e. V. ".

After the work of the tribes in Barcelona and Wernigerode had been difficult for years, the last lynx clans in these places finally dissolved. This and other difficulties led to the decision to join the Boy Scout Association Großer Jäger at the 2011 Pentecost camp.

Places where there were or are clans of the lynx

  • Kassel (since 1948)
  • Bonn (1952–59)
  • Arolsen (1956–59, then self-employed as the Walter Flex family)
  • Hofgeismar (1966-70, then self-employed as the Black Panther tribe)
  • Barcelona (1972-2010)
  • Lemgo (1975-84)
  • Madrid (1979-2002)
  • Münster (since 1990)
  • Wernigerode (1990-2010)

Known members

literature

Magazines

  • Die Sternschnuppe , No. 1 to 308, 1948–1970, Federal newspaper of the Boy Scout Association Großer Jäger.
  • new track , no? to ?, 1970–1988 ?, Federal newspaper of the German Scout Association.
  • Rocket , No. 1 to 124, 1975-2007, Federal newspaper of the scouting group Luchs.

Books

  • Boy Scout Association Großer Jäger 1945–1960 . Published by the Boy Scout Association Großer Jäger, 1961.
  • The lynx. From the Drachengebirge near Kassel to the beaches of Cataluña. Chronicle 1948–1978 . Published by the German Scout Association 1978.
  • The mill handle . Mitteilungen Nr. 96, Ring Junge Bünde, 1997 (contains a chronicle of the Spanish lynx).
  • 50 years of adventure. Scouting lynx 1948–98 . Announcements No. 102/103, Ring Junge Bünde, 1998.
  • 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 scout association Großer Jäger maintains an archive in its country home in Hofgeismar, in which the history of the lynx tribe is comprehensively documented.