Pfadfinderbund Weltenbummler
| Pfadfinderbund Weltenbummler e.V. | |||
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| Headquarters | Nuremberg | ||
| Country | Germany | ||
| Founded | 1981 | ||
| Affiliation | World Federation of Independent Scouts | ||
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Website http://www.pbw.org/ |
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The Pfadfinderbund Weltenbummler e.V. (Scouts' Association Globetrotter) is an inter-confessional and apolitical German Scout association founded in 1981. It has about 2000 members and is part of the World Federation of Independent Scouts (WFIS), the Duke of Edinburgh's Award (DofE), the German Scout Association (DPV), the Bavarian Scout Council and the German Parity Welfare Association. It is recognized by German law as a charitable and nonprofit organization. The association is built on the principles constituted by Robert Baden-Powell. Their uniform is dark blue, they wear black pants and striped neckerchiefs with varied woogles.
The PbW was founded on December 12, 1981 in Coburg under the name Pfadfinderbund Bayern e.V. by groups leaving the Bund der Pfadfinderinnen und Pfadfinder. Later the association was named "Pfadfinderbund Weltenbummler e.V." due to Scouts joining them from the German states Saxony and Thuringia after the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989/90. In 1993 groups were founded in Schleswig-Holstein, Hamburg and Berlin also the PbW has groups in North Rhine-Westphalia, Baden-Württemberg and Lower Saxony. Currently there are patrols in ten German states.
The PbW contains five organizational subdivisions. The topmost is the association called "Bund" itself, followed by "Landesverbänden", which are named and bound to each state the group is in. Then there is the "Bezirk", meaning the governmental district the patrol is located. The most important instances are the "Horst" (aerie) and "Stamm" (tribe) which are the regional groups of the PbW's Scouts.
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