Ring of German Scout Associations

The Ring of German Scout Associations (RdP) is the umbrella organization of three scout associations in Germany, based in Berlin . The RdP is a member of the World Organization of the Scout Movement (WOSM). The chairmen of the RdP are Joschka Hensch (DPSG) and Oliver Mahn (VCP).

The partner organization and “female” counterpart of the RdP is the Ring of German Scout Associations (RDP - with a capital D ). The Ring of German Scout Associations is a member of the German Federal Youth Association .

Members

The three member associations are:

• Association of Boy Scouts (BdP - interdenominational)
• German Scouting Association Sankt Georg (DPSG - Catholic)
• Association of Christian Scouts and Scouts (VCP - Protestant).

In 2018, the Association of Muslim Scouts and Girl Scouts in Germany was accepted as a connecting association.

In 2013 a total of 113,716 members were registered with the WOSM. The associations DPSG and VCP make contributions to the WOSM for all members, regardless of gender, while the BdP only reports its male members there.

history

A predecessor organization was founded as the Ring of German Scout Associations on October 1, 1949, and was incorporated into WOSM on August 21, 1950. Members of the umbrella organization were at that time

• the Christian Scouting Association of Germany (CPD),
• the Federation of German Scouts (BDP) and
• the German Scouting Association Sankt Georg (DPSG).

At that time, the three founding associations - like the WOSM until the 1990s - were aimed exclusively at children and young people of the male sex.

After internal disputes in May 1971, the ring of German scout associations dissolved. With the DPSG, the BdP, which was split off from the BDP, and the VCP, which was created through the merger of the three Protestant scout associations, the umbrella association was re-established on January 1, 1973 as a ring of German scout associations and was once again included in the WOSM.

Since 2007 there has been a ring scarf for joint events of the ring, which is also used by the ring of German scout associations. For the 23rd World Scout Jamboree 2015 in Japan, all German scouts wore a common uniform scout costume for the first time .

In 2018 the youth movement of the Boy Scouts was awarded the International Peace Prize of Westphalia . Girl scouts and a boy scout from the RdP and the RDP accepted the award on behalf of all scouts.

Web links

• Website of the Rings of German Scout Associations

Individual evidence

1. ^ Association of Christian Boy Scouts (VCP) - www.vcp.de. Accessed December 5, 2018 . 
2. ↑ Some statistics. World Organization of the Scout Movement , archived from the original on April 15, 2013 ; accessed on May 3, 2014 . 
3. ^ Church and Life, Münster, Germany: Scouts receive the Peace of Westphalia Prize . ( kirche-und-leben.de [accessed on August 22, 2018]).
4. ^ Elmar Ries: Latvia, Estonia and Lithuania and the boy scouts announced as winners . In: Westfälische Nachrichten . ( wn.de [accessed on August 22, 2018]).
5. ↑ Oliver Steuck: Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania are winners of the Westphalian Peace Prize 2018 . July 15, 2018 ( wdr.de [accessed August 22, 2018]).