With the aim of renewing the German Scout Association (de: der Deutschen Pfadfinderbundes or DPB) which had developed heavily paramilitary structures.
The publishing house printed a newspaper known as Der Weiße Ritter which intended to serve as an open forum to support the youth movement in the spirit of scouting.
The portfolio comprised mainly song- and logbooks, work aids, idea guides and scout leader materials, as well as books for adolescents and fiction.
Two years after the Potsdam publishing house was dissolved in 1945, Ludwig Voggenreiter died in the Buchenwald Soviet internment camp.
After the death of Ernst Voggenreiter following a plane crash on the 17th of December 1992, his sons Charles and Ralph took over the management of the company.
In addition, Voggenreiter publishes music literature, textbooks for various instruments and songbooks in print and electronic form.