Pfadfinder und Pfadfinderinnen Österreichs is the largest Scouting and Guiding organization in Austria and the only one approved by World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts (WAGGGS) and the World Organization of the Scout Movement (WOSM). The association claims more than 300 troops with more than 85,000 Scouts nationwide. WOSM and WAGGGS give quite smaller membership values for the PPÖ: 9,503 Scouts and 10,508 Guides.
Scout Association of Croatia is the Croatian national Scouting organization. As part of Yugoslavia, Croatia was a founding member of the World Organization of the Scout Movement from 1922 to 1948. Independently, Croatia has been a member of the World Organization since 1993. The coeducational Savez Izviđača Hrvatske has 3,827 members as of 2011.
The Ring Deutscher Pfadfinderinnenverbände is the German national Guiding organization within the World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts (WAGGGS). It serves 47,688 members.
The Verband Christlicher Pfadfinderinnen und Pfadfinder is a German Protestant coed Scouting and Guiding association. According to the VCP, the organization has about 47,000 members.
The World Federation of Independent Scouts (WFIS) is a non-governmental international Scouting organization with 82 affiliated Scout organizations in 41 countries. The affiliate Scout organizations collectively had an estimated 200,000 members in 3562 Scout Groups in 2010. WFIS was formed in Laubach, Germany, in 1996 by Lawrie Dring, a British Scouter with the independent Baden-Powell Scouts' Association (BPSA).
The Scout movement in Germany consists of about 150 different associations and federations with about 260,000 Scouts and Guides.
The Scouts of Namibia is the national Scouting organization of Namibia. It serves 2,845 Scouts.
Walther von Bonstetten was among the founders and most important members of the Swiss Boy Scout association Schweizer Pfadfinderbund, was elected President in 1918 and kept a leading role until 1942.
Scouting and Guiding in Switzerland is made up of numerous scouting and guiding bodies which act to provide the opportunities to scout. This could be though Swiss national Scouting and Guiding organizations, through independent troops or through international troops established in Switzerland. While the latter two are similar, there is a fundamental difference because the three independent groups while taking guidance under different national regimes it is a program developed by people in the various cities, where the presence of international groups in Switzerland is a top down targeted programs that have been developed to offer expatriates scouting and guiding in the language they are used to and are developed in areas with a larger expatriate community. All of which are supported the existence of KISC and Our Chalet, both acting as semi-permeant jamborees.
The Scout and Guide movement in Namibia is served by:
Ludwigstein Castle is a 15th-century castle overlooking the river Werra and surrounded by beautiful woodland. It stands southwest of the town of Witzenhausen in North Hesse and can easily be reached by car or train and bus. Founded in 1415 the castle's buildings today were built in the 16th and 20th centuries.
The Deutsche Pfadfinderverband is an umbrella federation of sixteen German non-denominational Scouting associations. It was founded in 1970 and serves about 29,000 members.
The Deutscher Pfadfinderbund in Namibia is a small Scouting association open mainly to boys and girls of German descent in Namibia.
DPV Deutscher Pressevertrieb is a full-service distributor for the worldwide distribution of media products with its head office in Hamburg and further branches in Stuttgart, Mörfelden-Walldorf, Hürth and Munich.
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 Deutscher Pfadfinderbund (DPB) was the first German Scouting association, and the forerunner of the Deutscher Pfadfinderbund (1945). It existed from 1911 until 1933, when it was disbanded by the National Socialists.
The Deutscher Pfadfinderbund (1945) (DPB) is an independent, interdenominational German Scout association and is a member of the Ring junger Bünde. It was founded in 1945 by Walther Jansen and Ebbo Plewe and consists of a boy section, a girl section, the Order of St. George on the youth section and the Order of St. Christopher, and is a purely voluntary organization.
Prussian general of division Carl Freiherr von Seckendorff was one of the founders of Scouting in Germany, along with Maximilian Bayer and Elise von Hopffgarten. He was the first "Reichsfeldmeister" of the Deutscher Pfadfinderbund after World War I.
The Ring junger Bünde (RjB) is an umbrella organization of about 20 independent and self-responsible interreligious German Scout and Wandervogel youth associations, based in Witzenhausen and established in 1964. RjB and all the youth organizations represented in it profess the Declaration of Principles adopted at Meißnertag in 1963.
