Sturmtrupp-Pfadfinder
The League of Sturmtrupp Scout, a German forest knighthood was founded in 1926 as a scout organization in accordance with the International Organization of Good Templars ( IOGT ). The federal government never had more than 500 members and was the first coeducational working Pfadfinderbund in Germany. The name should express that he saw himself at the head of a renewal movement in the German youth movement. The federal government was characterized by a very intense federal life.
Origin of the storm troop Scout
From 1923 young members began spontaneously within the soft movement of the International Order of Good Templars, to set free scout groups. These groups were strongly influenced by migratory birds and had close contact with the Neupfadfindern whose elements and style, they will still continue led, after they had risen in 1925 in the German Freischar. In the Netherlands, Sweden, Norway and the UK, there were similar developments in IOGT who sought a contemporary renewal of youth work and seeking new forms and possibilities.
1927 provided the tribes Jukkasjärvi (Stuttgart), Rüppurr (Karlsruhe) and wolves (Mannheim) to " Sturmtrupp South " within the military lodges work. Then succeeded in many other places in the German Empire to create new strains, so that on the national camp at the Hohe Meissner " Sturmtrupp North" and " Sturmtrupp center " were added. Other groups joined by migratory birds or from scout leagues that the Woodcraft movement were close and after " Urpfadfindertum " target. Basis of the " Urpfadfindertums " were the books by John Hargrave (the White Fox, art solitude, Kibbo Kift, tribal education, etc.). After a federal Thing in Roßlau on the Elbe eventually became the new covenant " Assault Squad Scout, a German forest chivalry " was founded. For Reichfeld Master Dr. Helmut Hövetborn was ( Scouts name: Doctor ) and to the main field master Erich Mönch ( Scout Name: mustache ) was determined.
This covenant cultivated numerous contacts with scout groups of IOGT in Scandinavia and the Netherlands, and at times it was even set up to aspirations a transnational North European Scout Association.
Work content
The federal government worked on the basis of the argument advanced by Ernest Thompson Seton " doctrine of the simple and spiritual life." He united in its ranks rough ride journeymen in the sense of old Pachanten and mercenaries, but also subtle, artistic and intellectual people. Each member of the League was stopped manufacture a year factory work, which were issued in the Federal camps. In addition, the Group undertook several major rides that they led mostly to Sweden and Norway. In claiming great power and iron discipline was a natural selection.
The federal government was interdenominational and politically neutral. He was supported by belonging to the "Ring of Friends of the assault team ," the parents of the members and the elders of the federal government. The Federal font called Youth Country. Between Easter 1929 and year 1933 24 issues published. The booklets published between 1946 25-27 and 1948.
Dissemination of the Federal
The groups of the Federation were distributed throughout the then German Reich, but the focus in southern Germany. The root of the " foxes " in Tübingen and the "gray tab" from Soldin in the Neumark be mentioned in particular because they were used for the post-war work of Erich Mönch as a model. Spiritual conveyor and Reichfeld master of Confederation was the graphic designer Helmut Hövetborn, which gave the federal government from the beginning artistic impulses. There was no written federal fine, but the members had to know the key phrases of the Covenant. Form of social life was a kind of grass-roots democracy. In federal Thing all tribal leaders were eligible to vote; the tribes held from own Things. Through their example, the leaders demanded unconditional allegiance. The assault group led by large foreign trips and also participated in international camps with scout groups of IOGT from Scandinavia, the UK and the U.S. part. 1927 was acquired by the federal government in Döffingen in Böblingen a large heath area on a mountain. Here, on the so -called " Land of Youth ", the Federal Home was built in log cabin style.
On 1 May 1932, the federal government entirely separated from the military lodges after the line refused the request, that the " Assault Squad Scout " constitute an independent branch in Good Templar Order. Then put the groups of the Good Templars badge and were an independent Scout Association.
Collection of known groups
Founding tribes of the " storm troop -South ":
- Master Wolves - Mannheim
- Master Jukkasjärvi - Stuttgart
- Master Rüppurr - Karlsruhe
Other groups of Sturmtrupp -South:
- Girl tribe Wildcats - Stuttgart
- Wölflingssippe siskins - Karlsruhe
- Master Foxes - Tübingen
- Girls ancestral castle - Tübingen
- Master Adler - Rottenburg
Sturmtrupp North:
Sturmtrupp center
- Master Brown Bears - Berlin
- Strain Grey Rider - Soldin
- Master Goths - Dessau
Ban time
In August 1934 was the last national meeting, already in hiding, on the youth country place, which was attended by almost all federal members. Shortly after the last Federal command came out, ordered the dissolution; the entire national inventory was destroyed, burned the homes, in order to forestall the inclusion in the Hitler Youth. However, there were still held secret meetings and trips. After the dissolution of the Federation the fate of the tribes varied greatly and depended on local conditions. The Karlsruhe groups joined the German Reich shaft Scouts who became a bastion of the battered youth movement and was also dissolved soon thereafter. A proposed federal drive to North Africa in 1934 was converted into a Germany - tour by meeting in Leipzig in the short term because of the departure prohibition.
Dr. Helmut Hövetborn was offered in Stuttgart enter the spell line of the Hitler Youth and their supply his tribe closed. This he rejected with the message that the federal government was dissolved and he would have no way to do something. This was followed by several stipulations and interrogation by the Gestapo. The young country was transferred to him by the club under assumption of all debts and thus escaped just in time its compulsory liquidation and seizure.
The members of the mounted strain " Grey Rider " in Soldin denied the commanded resolution and rode continue in broad daylight in their scout uniforms through the town. After being drafted into the army, they fell one after the other on the Eastern Front. Of these horror horsemen, the name of the later scouts Grey Rider derived.
New beginning
After 1945, Dr. Helmut Hövetborn collected again the remaining members of the Federation and there were considerations of a new foundation of the federal government. As early as 1946, the surviving members of the tribe Rüppur met under Ernst Kurzenberger in Ettlingen. In the spring of 1947, the country's Mark Nordbaden was proclaimed with groups in Mannheim, Heidelberg and Karlsruhe. In the same year the " Tübingen covenant" by Erich Mönch ( mustache ) was founded in Tübingen and licensed by the French military government. On March 14, 1948, the Federal Field Master Dr. Helmut Hövetborn died (Dr.) of a heart attack. His successor Richard King (age) was chosen by the founder strain Rüppurr.
The groups talked connections to the Hessian and Bavarian Boy Scouts and the Secretariat of Dr. Alexander Lion in Bad Aibling of a circular letter tried a gathering point for all Boy Scouts in Germany to form. There were numerous camps and in order to preserve the cohesion appeared to the newsletter, " Land of Youth " of the Friends of former Storm Scout troop. In these booklets issue 25-27 the founding of the Federation was discussed very intensively. This idea was, however, decided in favor of the commitment in the newly founded " Association of German scouts " were transferred to the all youth groups. It was believed that the federal statute, whose development also Erich monk was involved, with enough time for a life of their own groups allow, that is also a musical and artistic development in the spirit of the storm troop Scout seemed possible. In addition, they did not stand in the way of the unity of the German Scout movement and the establishment by the International Bureau. Only if the unity of the entire Scouting was not possible, a dedicated federal government should arise.
The further history of the Sturmtrupp Scout is closely connected with the history of the Grey Rider. There is still a circle of friends of former Sturmtrupp Scouts within the " Promotion of Grey Rider eV ", a überbündischen friends and parents circle to preserve the castle Hohenkrähen for youth work.