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 Scouting and Guiding is a worldwide youth movement composed of many organizations. Its aim is to develop young people physically, spiritually and mentally so that youth may take a constructive place in society. This is achieved through non-formal education with emphasis on practical activities in the outdoors, the so called Scout method. The Scout Movement was founded in 1907 by Robert Baden-Powell, a retired Lieutenant General in the British Army. He was also at that time a good friend of William Alexander Smith, Founder of the Boys' Brigade. Currently Scouting and Guiding have over 38 million members in 217 countries and territories represented through several different Scouting associations at the international level. <templatestyles src="Stack/styles.css"/>Template:/box-header Sturmtrupp-Pfadfinder was a small Scout association in Germany active from 1926 to 1934. It was the first Scout association in Germany to admit boys and girls. It was interdenominational and politically neutral. 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, which was a group of German and Austrian Scouters and Scouts, who tried to modernize Scouting under the influence of the Wandervogel movement and of the Kindred of the Kibbo Kift. The Sturmtrupp-Pfadfinder continued the traditions and style of the Neupfadfinder, after the Neupfadfinder and other groups of the German Youth Movement founded the Deutsche Freischar. In 1934, the last meeting of the association took place. Shortly after, the voluntary liquidation followed, the equipment and the Scout houses were destroyed, so that the Hitler Youth was not able to take them. Remnants of the movement remain today. Template:/box-footer Template:/box-header Four German Kohte. A Kohte is a German Scout tent based on the shape and function of the Saami (Laplander) tipi-like reindeer skin tent.
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See also the Scouting to-do list as well as the project editing conventions
Template:/box-footer Template:/box-header ...that there are more than 150 different Scouting and Guiding organizations in Germany? Template:/box-footer Template:/box-header 12th
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Template:/box-footer Template:/box-header Alexander Lion a Jewish surgeon, who converted to Catholicism at age 16, who was the co-founder of the German Scout Movement along with Maximilian Bayer. In March 1908 Lion read an article in The Times entitled "Scouting as a Sport" and in August he began corresponding with Robert Baden-Powell Shortly after Lion wrote his first article about Scouting in the magazine "Ärztliche Rundschau". During a month long study tour of England in 1909 he spent three days in London with Baden-Powell. Following this meeting he set up the German Scout movement, writing the book "Das Pfadfinderbuch", (the Scouting book). He was awarded the Iron Cross while serving as a surgeon in World War I. The Nazis considered him a Jew and sentenced him to 10 months in prison for "treasonous" Scouting activity. He was denounced during World War II but survived and was instrumental in getting Scouting restarted after the war. Template:/box-footer Template:/box-header Scouting:
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