 There was a strong influence from the "Neupfadfinder".The Neupfadfinder was a group of German and Austrian Scouters and Scouts, who tried to modernize Scouting under the influence of the Wandervogel movement and of the Kindred of the Kibbo Kift.They founded among other things a publishing house and published the translation of the books of John Hargrave in their "Verlag Der Weiße Ritter".