Ring scout
Several smaller scout associations are grouped under the name Ringpfadfinder during the alliance phase of the German youth movement .
The Bund der Ringpfadfinder (BdR; also: Bund Deutscher Ringpfadfinder ) split off from the German Pathfinder Association (DPB) in 1922 . As early as 1919, within the framework of the renewal movements in the DPB, the ring community was formed , which had its focus in Saxony . They represented the idea of creating an elite within the Boy Scout Association, along with the principle of selection, while the DPB at that time still saw itself as open to everyone. After these conflicts could not be resolved, the ring community left the DPB and founded the BdR. In this - in addition to the elitist selection - great value was placed on military virtues.
In 1925 the BdR and the Federation of German New Scouts merged to form the Greater German Scout Association. For that arose in 1926 after the merger with several bird of frets of the Federation of hikers and scouts , the later German volunteer corps . Some groups of the BdR refused to accept this "high union" and founded two successor groups: the ring association of German scouts and the ring of German scouts . There they tried to continue the traditions of the BdR.
After a group of the German Freischar left over, the Tahoe-Ring was formed in Berlin in 1931 in the Ringgemeinschaft Deutscher Pfadfinder , which became independent in 1932 as the Southern Legion .
In 1933, the Ringgemeinschaft Deutscher Pfadfinder and Ring Deutscher Pfadfindergaue, together with other groups of the youth movement, founded the Greater German Federation in order to avoid incorporation into the Hitler Youth . This did not succeed: after only three months, the Greater German Confederation and its member associations were dissolved by the Reich Youth Leadership .