The Ring Deutscher Pfadfinderinnenverbände (RDP; ''German Guide Federation'') was the
German
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national
Guiding organization within the
World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts
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(WAGGGS). It served 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,
Protestant
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, not in
Bavaria
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)
* ''Bund Christlicher Pfadfinderinnen'' (BCP, Protestant, only in Bavaria)
* ''Pfadfinderinnenschaft Sankt Georg'' (PSG,
Roman Catholic
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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
Scouting
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counterparts, it was renamed Ring Deutscher Pfadfinderinnenverbände. The current members are:
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Bund der Pfadfinderinnen und Pfadfinder (BdP, interreligious, coeducational)
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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 Pfadfinder*innenverbände and the Wo ...
(PSG, Roman Catholic, female only)
*
Verband Christlicher Pfadfinderinnen und Pfadfinder
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(VCP, Protestant, coeducational)
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Bund Muslimischer Pfadfinder und Pfadfinderinnen Deutschlands (BMPPD, Muslim, coeducational).
Three of these, the BdP, the VCP, and the BMPPD, were also members of the
World Organization of the Scout Movement
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, via the
Ring deutscher Pfadfinderverbände. Both federations worked strongly together in the main fields of Scouting and Guiding.
In 2021, Ring Deutscher Pfadfinderinnenverbände and Ring deutscher Pfadfinderverbände merged, forming the
Ring deutscher Pfadfinder*innenverbände
The Ring deutscher Pfadfinder*innenverbände (rdp; ''German Guide and Scout Federation'') is the German national Scouting and Guiding organization within the World Organization of the Scout Movement (WOSM) and the World Association of Girl Guid ...
.
See also
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Scouting in Germany
External links
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References
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
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