Academic Alpine Club Munich
| Academic Alpine Association Munich (AAVM) |
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|---|---|
| founding | 1892 |
| Seat | Munich , Bavaria |
| purpose | Mountain tours, lectures, expeditions |
| Chair | Jakob Braun |
| Volunteers | about 80 |
| Members | 80 |
| Website | AAVM.de |
The Academic Alpine Association Munich e. V. ( AAVM ) is an academic mountain association in Munich that is closely related to the German Alpine Association .
The AAVM was founded in 1892 by Albrecht Krafft von Dellmensingen (1871–1901) and is organized like a student union . As such, he has, in addition to an activity by climbing students, a financially strong old man . Admission is regulated by strict admission requirements.
history
The heyday of the German expeditionary industry
Its members, all of them academics and mostly from the group around Paul Bauer , were characterized by an awareness of the elite and class. Instead of a scale length , the honor and staying in the club were earned through extraordinary tours in the mountains. A club house , could live in the students members, did not exist. The weekly compulsory events, such as lectures on climbing trips or reports on difficult ascents, took place in a club bar.
The AAVM built its own refuge in 1900 in the Hornbach range . The Hermann-von-Barth-Hütte remained in the ownership of the AAVM until 1924 and was then sold to the DÖAV - Düsseldorf section .
In the years after the First World War , the AAVM became an elite group of capable mountaineers who played important roles in the German expeditions up to 1938. In addition to Paul Bauer, the members included Josef Enzensperger , Adolf Schulze , Julius Brenner , Wilhelm Fendt , Willy Merkl , Peter Aufschnaiter , Eugen Allwein , Karl Wien , Willo Welzenbach , Hans Hartmann and Leo Maduschka . In 1925 the AAVM had almost 300 members, 34 of whom were active members and 250 were old men. The old gentlemen included respected lawyers, doctors, professors and entrepreneurs such as Ernst von Siemens .
Paul Bauer and Willo Welzenbach became competing leaders of the AAVM - the reasons for this were probably their alpine achievements, but also their respective personalities. The club consisted of distinctive individualists who, however, wanted to make mountain trips together. After leaving Aktivitas in 1925, Bauer's great influence was evident in the fact that subsequent members viewed him as the “ gray eminence ” of the association. In 1934 Welzenbach took part in the second German Nanga Parbat expedition and had a fatal accident.
The AAVM got more and more competition from the German Himalaya Foundation, which was founded in 1936 and supported politically, and thus lost its outstanding importance for expeditionary activities in Germany during the Second World War. Since the end of the war and the re-establishment of the German Alpine Club in 1952, expeditions have mainly been brought about by the DAV expedition squad or individual individual achievements.
In addition to numerous mountain trips and activities in the period that followed, the successful expedition to Cho Oyu in the Himalayas on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the association in 1992 should be highlighted.
The AAVM today
Today the AAVM has become a small alpine club with around 80 members. His main goal is to maintain the tradition of alpine climbing and to move young people from the gym to the mountains.
In 1980 women were included in the statutes, otherwise the structure of the association has remained unchanged to this day.
Annual important events are the Pfingstgebrenzel that on - and climbing down and the Stiftungsfest .
The association has a club house in Munich, where regular meetings and lectures take place. The association also operates the memorial hut , which is located just above the Scharnitzjoch at 2083 m in the Wetterstein Mountains . It serves as the basis for regular climbing tours on the nearby Schüsselkarspitze south face as well as for short hikes to the Gehrenspitze .
literature
- Peter Mierau: National Socialist Expedition Policy: German Expeditions to Asia 1933-1945 . Herbert Utz Verlag, Munich 2006, ISBN 3-8316-0409-6 ( full text in the Google book search).
Web links
- Website of the Academic Alpine Club Munich
- Academic Alpine Association Munich (AAVM) in the Historical Alpine Archive of the Alpine Associations in Germany, Austria and South Tyrol (temporarily offline)
- Section Academic Alpine Association Munich (AAVM) in the Historical Alpine Archive of the Alpine Associations in Germany, Austria and South Tyrol (temporarily offline)
Individual evidence
- ^ A b Peter Mierau: National Socialist Expedition Policy - German Asia Expeditions 1933–1945 . Herbert Utz Verlag, Munich 2006, ISBN 3-8316-0409-6 ( reading sample [PDF; 301 kB ; accessed on April 23, 2007]).
- ↑ 100 years of the Hermann von Barth Hut . In: DAV Panorama . No. 6 , 2000, pp. 36–39 ( alpenverein.de [PDF; 344 kB ; accessed on February 3, 2013]).
- ↑ Expeditions - News. German Alpine Association e. V., accessed on June 18, 2013 .
- ^ Yearbook of the Academic Alpine Club Munich
- ^ Website of the Academic Alpine Club Munich - main page
- ↑ Website of the Academic Alpine Club Munich - Dates ( Memento of the original from September 4, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
