Donauland section

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Donauland section
founding 1921 in Vienna, Austria
Seat Vienna , Austria ( ⊙ coordinates: 48 ° 12 ′ 30 ″  N , 16 ° 22 ′ 23 ″  E )
resolution 1976
Anti-Semitic sign on the DOeAV huts in the 1930s
Friesenberghaus memorial plaque

The Danubia section was a particularly Jewish mountaineers in 1921 Wien Founded section of the German and Austrian Alpine Association (DÖAV). In 1924, after being excluded from the DÖAV, it was converted into the Donauland Alpine Association . In addition to the Glorer Hut in the Glockner Group and the Obertauernhaus, she also owned the Friesenberghaus refuge in the Zillertal Alps , which was completed in 1931 .

history

The section was created due to the anti-Semitic orientation of large parts of the DÖAV. Eduard Pichl , the chairman of the Vienna section Austria , enforced a so-called Aryan paragraph in his section in 1921 . As a result, the new section Donauland was founded in the same year , in which many excluded mountaineers gathered, including Viktor Frankl , Fred Zinnemann and Joseph Braunstein . The first chairman of the Donauland section was the famous mountaineer and Karl Hanns Richter, who was married to a Jew . In December 1924, the right-wing extremist side succeeded in excluding the Donauland section from the DÖAV at an extraordinary general meeting with flimsy reasons. Resistance from other sections of the Alpine Club was only weak. Only the sections Aachen , Barmen , Berlin , Essen , Frankfurt am Main , Gelsenkirchen , Gummersbach , Leipzig , Mainz , Marburg , Zwickau and Gleiwitz (out of a total of over 300) tried to prevent exclusion. The Donauland section was therefore converted by its members into the Donauland Alpine Association in 1925 .

Out of solidarity and to support Donauland, 600 Berlin mountaineers also founded a new association, the German Alpine Association Berlin , which planned and built the Friesenberghaus together with Donauland from 1928 to 1931 . In 1934 the National Socialists banned the Berlin Association, which had previously given the Friesenberghaus to the Danube region. Shortly after the " Anschluss of Austria " in 1938, the Danube land was also dissolved by the GeStaPo . The German Wehrmacht then confiscated the Friesenberghaus and the Glorer Hütte was transferred to the German Alpine Club , which was now controlled by the National Socialists .

In 1945 the Donauland Alpine Association was re-established by a few surviving and returning members, and the property of the Glorer Hut and the Friesenberghaus were successfully sued. The Friesenberghaus was completely looted in 1945, however, and the approximately 120 of the former 3000 members of the association were no longer able to keep the Friesenberghaus and the Glorer Hütte in the long term. The Friesenberghaus was finally assigned to the Berlin section in 1968 and the Glorer Hütte to the Eichstätt section of the DAV. The Donauland Alpine Association dissolved one year after the death of Karl Hanns Richter in May 1976.

In 2003 the Friesenberghaus was completely renovated and expanded to become an international meeting place against intolerance and hatred.

On December 6, 2002, the Section Austria commemorated its former Section Chairman Josef Donabaum (who acted from 1910 and left Eduard Pichl in 1921) as part of a series of events , who had resigned his post as third chairman of the DÖAV in 1922, exasperated by personal attacks . The commemorative plaque “Against hatred and intolerance, 1921–1945” affixed to the Alpine Club House in Vienna by the Austria Section was unveiled.

literature

  • Martin Achrainer: “So, now we're all to ourselves!” Anti-Semitism in the Alpine Association (PDF), in: Hanno Loewy , Gerhard Milchram: Have you seen my Alps? A Jewish Relationship History , Hohenems / Vienna 2009, ISBN 978-3902679413
  • Rainer Amstädter: Anti-Semitism in the Alpine associations of Vienna from their beginnings to the end of the First World War. The political dimension of alpinism as a reflection of the club history of the 'big five' of Vienna: Austria Section of the German and Austrian Alpine Club, Austrian Tourist Club, Austrian Alpine Club, Austrian Mountain Club, Tourist Association “Die Naturfreunde”, as well as the Academic Section Vienna of the DÖAV, the Section Vienna of the DÖAV and the alpine society "d 'Reichensteiner". Thesis. University of Vienna, Vienna 1992, OBV .
  • Mountain. Alpine Club Yearbook 2008 . Alpine Association, Munich / Innsbruck / Bozen 2008, DNB , OBV .
  • Helmuth Zebhauser: Alpinism in the Hitler State. Thoughts, memories, documents. 1st edition. Documents of Alpinism, Volume 1. Bergverlag Rother, Munich 1998, ISBN 978-3-7633-8102-9 .
  • Hanno Loewy: Donauland Section. In: Dan Diner (Ed.): Encyclopedia of Jewish History and Culture (EJGK). Volume 5: Pr-Sy. Metzler, Stuttgart / Weimar 2014, ISBN 978-3-476-02505-0 , pp. 420-425.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Memorial Forum : Memorial Forum - circular. Retrieved on July 30, 2018 (German).
  2. ^ German Alpine Association eV (DAV): DAV House modernized - Huts & Tours - German Alpine Association (DAV) . ( alpenverein.de [accessed on July 30, 2018]).
  3. ↑ Notes. (...) Head of Section . In: News from the “Donauland” section of the German and Austrian Alpine Association , year 1921, issue 1, p. 10. (Online at ANNO ).
  4. ^ The Extraordinary General Meeting of the German and Austrian Alpine Club in Munich (December 14, 1924) . In: News from the “Donauland” section of the German and Austrian Alpine Association , born in 1925, No. 42, p. 7. (Online at ANNO) .
  5. ↑ Founding of an apolitical alpine club in Berlin . In: "Donauland-Nachrichten" . (Formerly: News from the “Donauland” section of the German and Austrian Alpine Association ), year 1925, number 46, p. 83. (Online at ANNO ,
    Berg. Alpenvereinsjahrbuch 2008 , p. 216 ff.)
  6. ^ Sepp Haidenberger: History of the Glorer Hut ( Memento from October 29, 2013 in the Internet Archive ). In: dav-eichstaett.de , March 11, 2012, accessed on March 7, 2014.
  7. ↑ Roman Tschiedl: Friesenberghaus, Tirol , from the series Hundert Häuser - The Republic of Austria as reflected in its architecture , Radio Ö1 , September 5, 2018
  8. ^ German Alpine Club and Austrian Alpine Club: excluded. Jewish mountaineers and the Alpine Club. , 2012
  9. ^ Th. Zadow, B. Schröder, K. Kundt: Leaflet on the Friesenberghaus . Deutscher Alpenverein Berlin, 2003. In: dav-berlin.de , December 27, 2006. - Online , accessed on March 7, 2014.
  10. ↑ red: Against hatred and intolerance. Section Austria of the OeAV unveils memorial plaque. In: DAV Panorama. Issue 2/2003. DAV, Munich 2003, ZDB -ID 2589886-3 , p. 20. - Online (PDF; 3 MB).