Austrian Alpine Club
| Austrian Alpine Club (ÖAK) | |
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| sport | Alpinism |
| Founded | 1878 |
| Place of foundation | Vienna |
| Members | 400 active and supportive |
| Association headquarters | Vienna , Austria |
| Homepage | Alpenklub.info |
The Austrian Alpine Club ( ÖAK ) is an association of high-performance mountaineers .
The association was founded in Vienna in 1878 , one of the founders was Alfred Margrave von Pallavicini . The Alpine Club has only one hut - the Erzherzog-Johann-Hütte in the Großglockner group . In 1894 Otto Zsigmondy became president of the Alpine Club.
Like the Austrian Tourist Club a year before, the Austrian Alpine Club introduced the so-called " Aryan Paragraph " at the same time as the ÖGV ( Austrian Mountain Association ) in 1921 . This meant that the Alpine Club only accepted members who were neither of Jewish faith nor of Jewish descent.
The association has around 400 active and supporting members. The support of two members is required for admission. Important members of the ÖAK were Karl Prusik , Peter Aschenbrenner , Willo Welzenbach , Karl Wien , Rudolf Schwarzgruber , Willy Merkl , the expedition leader of the German Nanga Parbat Expedition in 1934 , and Paul Bauer , the founder of the German Himalaya Foundation . Hans Ertl and Hermann Buhl , who made the first ascent of Nanga Parbat in 1953, were also members of the ÖAK .
The ÖAK participates in the Austrian reciprocal right to huts and is a member of the VAVÖ .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ The DAV and anti-Semitism , German Alpine Association
- ^ Walter Klappacher: Aryan Paragraph and Anti-Semitism in the Salzburg Cave Association - In memory of Dr. Ernst Hauser , In: Die Höhle / 56th vol. / Heft 1–4 / 2005, p. 101
- ↑ Martin Achrainer: "So, now we are all to ourselves!" Anti-Semitism in the Alpine Association (PDF), in: Hanno Loewy , Gerhard Milchra: Have you seen my Alps? A Jewish Relationship Story , Hohenems / Vienna 2009
- ↑ "50 Years of Nanga Parbat" (PDF) - Austrian Alpine Newspaper of the Austrian Alpine Club (July / August 2003 edition) ( Memento from September 28, 2007 in the Internet Archive )