Krakowska Chorągiew Męska ZHP. Powstanie i początki działalności (1920–1921). Kalendarium wydarzeń
Krakow Region Boys’ Division of the Polish Scouting and Guiding Association: Timeline of the Origins and Early Days (1920–1921)

Summary/Abstract: This paper looks at the origins and early days of the Cracow Region Boys’ Division of the Polish Scouting and Guiding Association, commonly referred to in Polish as ZHP, its abbreviated form. It describes the organisational growth of the Region against the backdrop of a variety of documents pertaining to the contemporaneous local and central scouting and guiding authorities (1920–1921). The paper has been written on the basis of unpublished archive sources retrieved from the Archives of Modern Records in Warsaw – the collection of the „Polish Scouting and Guiding Association Archive [1913‒1939]”, as well as the existing paperback sources – such as the reports of the Branch and Region headquarters, the orders given by the region headquarters, the reports of the Supreme Scouting and Guiding Council, and the publications found in the scouting and guiding press. The formation of the Region was connected to the ultimate merger of the former district scouting and guiding organisations into a uniform ZHP at the First General ZHP Meeting, held in Warsaw from 31 December 1920 to 2 January 1921. At the same time, the Board of the Krakow Branch of ZHP was gradually taking shape. In 1921, in Krakow there were as many as 18 teams subdivided into three troops. The whole community was well thought of by the authorities and received extensive support from the locals. At a later stage, its work was organised by eminent scouting and guiding activists. During the wartime occupation, some of them paid with their lives to prove their unreserved loyalty to the ideals of scouting.

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