Ring Deutscher Pfadfinderinnenverbände


The Ring Deutscher Pfadfinderinnenverbände is the German national Guiding organization within the World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts. It serves 47,688 members.
The RDP was founded as Ring Deutscher Pfadfinderinnenbünde in 1949 by four Guiding associations:
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 counterparts, it was renamed Ring Deutscher Pfadfinderinnenverbände. The individual members are:
Two of these, the BdP and the VCP, are also members of the World Organization of the Scout Movement, via the Ring deutscher Pfadfinderverbände. Both federations work strongly together in the main fields of Scouting and Guiding.