Sturmtrupp-Pfadfinder [SEP] inception
Sturmtrupp-Pfadfinder
The Sturmtrupp-Pfadfinder was a Scout association in Germany active from 1926 to 1934. The association never had more than 500 members. It was the first Scout association in Germany to admit boys and girls. It was interdenominational and politically neutral.
History.
History 1923-1933.
Since 1923, there had been Scout groups within the International Organisation of Good Templars (IOGT) in Germany. There was a strong influence from the "Neupfadfinder". The Neupfadfinder was a group of German and Austrian
Lion, one of the founders of German Scouting.
In 1948, the "Tübinger Bund" joined the Bund Deutscher Pfadfinder, the interreligious member organization of the Ring deutscher Pfadfinderverbände. Erich Mönch, one of the founders of the Sturmtrupp-Pfadfinder was a founder member of this association.
In 1956, the Gau "Grauer Reiter", named after the Scout group Graue Reiter in Soldin of the Sturmtrupp-Pfadfinder, left the Bund Deutscher Pfadfinder.
Today, there is still a group of former Sturmtrupp-Pfadfinder