ABSTRACT
Membership book No. 33 of the Wandervogel was issued to Hans Bluher when he was a 14-year-old student at Steglitz gymnasium. Blüher was the most articulate Wandervogel, and the movement suffered from the consequences. Blüher wrote the history of the Wandervogel at the age of twenty two, as an act of revenge against those who had slandered Karl Fischer, and to a lesser degree Wilhelm Jansen. Friendships between boys that were not entirely asexual or purely platonic were not rare among the students of Steglitz gymnasium around the turn of the century, or among the pupils of other institutions of learning in Germany, or, indeed, in some other countries. Whatever impact Blüher had on the Wandervogel was through his books. Wyneken, too, wrote books, and especially pamphlets, in great number, but his main impact on the youth movement was through his personality as a leader and educator.
