Alexander Lion (* 15 December 1870 in Berlin; "† 2. March 1962 in created together with Maximilian Bavarian the German pathfinder movement.

Life

Alexander Lion was born on 15 December 1870 in Berlin. After the attendance of the High School it studied medicine in Berlin, Kiel and peppering castle.

it occurred 1893 as a one year's the Bavarian army. From 1904 to 1906 it served during the Herero rebellion as a medical officer in German southwest Africa, where it learned Maximilian Bavarian to know.

When it traveled 1908 to England, an article in Time over the book Scouting woke for Boys its interest in the pathfinder movement. it met 1909 in London with Robert bathe Powell, which founders of the pathfinder movement, together, which accepted it as a pathfinder.

In the same year Lion published the pathfinder book, which experienced pathfinder book starting from 1911 under the titles of young Germany further editions together with Maximilian Bavarian. With this book, German conditions for Boys, Lion the term pathfinder coined/shaped adapted transmission of Scouting as German translation of the English Boy Scout.

Around the groups of pathfinders developed in the German Reich to summarize 1911 the German pathfinder federation was created, among whose initial members Lion ranked.

During the First World War Lion was inserted among other things on the Sinai peninsula and in France. As a division physician it received the iron cross 1 to 1917. Class.

1919 were used Lion first as boss of a medical company in the free corps Epp with smashing the residents of Munich soviet republic, before he served east in the border control.

After its dismissal from the realm resistance 1920 Lion worked as a cure physician under upper yard, until 1935 due to the Rassengesetze the citizen rights were extracted from him, after which it as a Jew was classified.

Also during the third realm Lion kept the contacts upright to its foreign pathfinder friends. When the Gestapo found 1938 after the connection of Austria in Vienna letters of it, which warned of contacts for realm youth guidance and to the Hitler Youth, Lion was arrested and 1939 because of Landesverrats to ten months detention condemns. From 1939 to 1943 Lion in Kolbermoor (Upper Bavaria) was, from where he fled 1943, because the local SA wanted to arrest him.

After the end of the Second World War Lion became director/conductor of the circle youth welfare office in bath Aibling. From there out it participated in the structure of the federation German pathfinder, who appointed it 1948 honorary presidents.

Alexander Lion died to 2. March 1962 in

See also: Pathfinder history in the German-speaking countries

Literature

• Alexander Lion: The pathfinder book. Reprint. German trace book publishing house, building after 1987 ISBN 3-88778-164-3
• Karl Seidelmann: The pathfinders in German youth history: Bd. 1. Representation. Hanover, Schroedel 1977. ISBN 3507380374

Related links

• http://www.stammalexanderlion.de/ali.htm

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