The Ring Deutscher Pfadfinderinnenverbände (RDP; ''German Guide Federation'') is the

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national Guiding organization within the

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(WAGGGS). It serves 47,688 members (as of 2008). The RDP was founded as Ring Deutscher Pfadfinderinnenbünde in 1949 by four Guiding associations: * ''Bund Deutscher Pfadfinderinnen'' (BDPi, interreligious) * ''Evangelischer Mädchen-Pfadfinderbund'' (EMP,

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, not in

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) * ''Bund Christlicher Pfadfinderinnen'' (BCP, Protestant, only in Bavaria) * ''Pfadfinderinnenschaft Sankt Georg'' (PSG,

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). It became an associate member of WAGGGS in 1950 and a full member in 1954. In the 1970s, following merger of the EMP, the BCP and the BDPi with their respective

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counterparts, it was renamed Ring Deutscher Pfadfinderinnenverbände. The current members are: *

Bund der Pfadfinderinnen und Pfadfinder The Bund der Pfadfinderinnen und Pfadfinder (BdP) (German Association of Guides and Scouts) is the largest non-denominational, co-educational Scout and Guide association in Germany. Through its membership in the Ring deutscher Pfadfinderverbän ...

(BdP, interreligious, coeducational) *

Pfadfinderinnenschaft Sankt Georg The Pfadfinderinnenschaft Sankt Georg (PSG) is a German Roman Catholic Girl Scout regionally coed association with about 10,000 members. offline The national association is a full member of the Ring Deutscher Pfadfinderinnenverbände and the Worl ...

(PSG, Roman Catholic, female only) *

Verband Christlicher Pfadfinderinnen und Pfadfinder The Verband Christlicher Pfadfinderinnen und Pfadfinder (roughly: ''Association of Christian Guides and Scouts'', VCP) is a German Protestant coed Scouting and Guiding association. According to the VCP, the organization has about 47,000 member ...

(VCP, Protestant, coeducational) * Bund Moslemischer Pfadfinder und Pfadfinderinnen Deutschlands (BMPPD, Muslim, coeducational). Three of these, the BdP, the VCP, and the BMPPD, are also members of the

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, via the

Ring deutscher Pfadfinderverbände The Ring deutscher Pfadfinderverbände (RdP; ''German Scout Federation'') is the German national Scouting organization within the World Organization of the Scout Movement (WOSM). It serves 115,944 members (as of 2011). The RdP was founded as Ri ...

. Both federations work strongly together in the main fields of Scouting and Guiding.

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Youth organisations based in Germany World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts member organizations Scouting and Guiding in Germany Youth organizations established in 1949 {{Germany-org-stub

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