Wanderfogel ( German Wandervogel , “Migratory Bird”) is the name of various German and German-speaking (Austria, Switzerland, Luxembourg) cultural, educational and tourist youth groups and clubs that first appeared in 1896 and exist to this day. The name symbolizes the love of nature. The Vanderfogel groups are united by a craving for nature, traveling, hiking, climbing, singing folk songs around the fire to the accompaniment of the lander Wandervogel-laute, a hybrid of lute and guitar. Members of the Vanderfogel movement protested against environmental pollution and growing cities. Groups "Vanderfogel" some elements of their organization and symbols resemble scouts .
With the coming to power in Germany of the Nazi Party ( 1933 ), Vanderfogel, as well as other youth organizations independent of the Hitler Youth, were outlawed, despite the fact that some Vanderfogel groups (one of which included the leading Nazi poet G. Anker ) supported the ideology of Nazism, while others rejected it. After the end of the Second World War, the organization was revived.