German Alpine Club

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German Alpine Club (DAV)
Logo of the German Alpine Club
sport Rockclimbing
Founded May 9, 1869
Place of foundation Munich
president Josef Klenner
societies 358 sections
Members 1,351,247 (March 2020)
Association headquarters Munich , Germany
Official languages) German
Homepage Alpenverein.de
Flag of the DAV at the Knorrhütte

The German Alpine Association e. V. ( DAV for short ) is the largest national mountaineering association in the world and the fifth largest national sports association in Germany. It has 358 legally independent sections with a total of 1,351,247 members and it has 321 mountain huts and shelters (as of March 2020). The DAV is a member of Club Arc Alpin (CAA), the European Union of Mountaineering Associations (EUMA) and the Union Internationale des Associations d'Alpinisme (UIAA), and is the responsible professional association for sport in the German Olympic Sports Confederation (DOSB) - and competitive climbing , the hiking and mountain climbing , high alpine touring , ice climbing and expedition mountaineering and the ski mountaineering . The DAV has its own youth organization, the " Youth of the German Alpine Club " ( JDAV ). President of the DAV has been Josef Klenner since October 2010 , who held this office from 1992 to 2005.

history

The DAV emerged from the educated bourgeois mountaineering association founded on May 9, 1869 . The founders were mostly dissatisfied members of the Austrian Alpine Association (ÖAV), founded seven years earlier , who wanted to support the tourism development of the Alps not only morally and academically, but actively, for example by building huts and paths.

Driving forces were the Austrian curate Franz Senn , the Prague businessman Johann Stüdl , the Munich student Karl Hofmann and the mandate of the Austrian Alpine Club in Bavaria, Theodor Trautwein . 36 men came to the founding meeting at the “Blaue Traube” inn in Munich, and Ministerialrat Gustav von Bezold was elected 1st chairman. After only 10 months there were 22 sections with 1070 members, in 1876 there were already 500 sections. From 1873 to 1938 the German and Austrian branches were merged to form the German and Austrian Alpine Association (DuÖAV).

Anti-Semitic tendencies developed in the DuÖAV as early as the German Empire . In 1899 the section “Mark Brandenburg” was founded exclusively for “Christian baptized German citizens”. In 1905 the Vienna Section was founded exclusively for “Aryan” citizens. In 1907, the Vienna Academic Section included the Aryan Paragraph in its statutes. Further sections with these restrictions followed in the following years up to 1921. Some of the excluded mountaineers then founded the Donauland section of the DuÖAV. This was excluded from the entire club in 1924. Before that, in 1921, after Eduard Pichl took over the chairmanship of the Austria section , the Aryan paragraph had been introduced in 98 of 110 sections. In 1922 the Academic Section Dresden of the DuÖAV excluded Jews from membership. These issues have been dealt with in detail by the DAV's cultural representative, Helmuth Zebhauser .

In 1938 the Alpine Club, now only the German Alpine Club (DAV), was incorporated into the National Socialist Reich Association for Physical Exercise (NSRL) as the "Fachverband Bergsteiger" and Arthur Seyß-Inquart was appointed "Leader of the German Alpine Club (DAV)". With Act No. 2 of the Allied Control Council passed on October 10, 1945 , the DAV was declared dissolved as part of the NSRL and its property was confiscated. New formation under the same or a different name was prohibited. The Austrian Alpine Club OeAV was re-established as early as 1945. The OeAV administered the DAV's assets and property (huts) in trust until 1952.

The DAV did not receive any new approval in the GDR . Mountaineers and climbers came together in the German Association for Hiking, Mountaineering and Orienteering (DWBO), founded in 1958 . After the fall of the Wall , many of the sections that existed before 1945 were re-established.

The DAV is a founding member of the multilateral agreement of reciprocal rights to huts , which was introduced in 1978.

In 1992 the Alpine Club joined the German Sports Confederation , for the first time state associations were founded, which in turn became members of the state sports associations.

In 2008, the DAV left the UIAA at the end of the year, together with the ÖAV and the VAVÖ . The reason for this was resentment about the efforts of the UIAA to establish sport climbing as an Olympic discipline. After realigning the UIAA's goals, the DAV and the VAVÖ rejoined the UIAA in 2013. In 2017, the German Alpine Association was a founding member of the European Union of Mountaineering Associations (EUMA).

UIAA honorary members have been Hans von Bomhard since 1969 , Fritz März since 2003 and Pit Schubert since 2008 .

Chairman and President

A chronological overview of all chairmen and presidents since foundation. Up until 1950 there was only a first chairman, from 1950 to 2003 there was a first, second and third chairman, and since 2003 there has only been one president.

1. Chairman

Term of office 1. Chairman section
1869-1870 Gustav von Bezold -
1871 Ferdinand von Hochstetter -
1872-1873 Burghart Josef Edler from Wehrenalp Barth -
1874-1876 Theodor Petersen -
1877-1879 Theodor Zentner -
1880-1882 Burghart Josef Edler from Wehrenalp Barth -
1883-1885 Eduard Richter -
1886-1888 Karl Alfred von Zittel -
1889-1891 Karl of Adamek -
1892-1894 Julius Scholz -
1895-1897 Alexander Rigler -
1898-1900 Wilhelm Burkhard -
1901-1906 Carl Ipsen -
1907-1909 Otto von Pfister -
1910-1911 Adolf Ritter von Guttenberg -
1912-1928 Reinhold von Sydow -
1929-1933 Robert Rehlen -
1934-1938 Raimund von Klebelsberg -
-  1 - -
-  1 - -
1950-1958 Alfred Jennewein Section Stuttgart
1959-1959 Friedrich White  2 Section Swabia
1960-1967 Hans Dütting  3 Food section
1967-1974 Ulrich Mann Section Swabia
1975-1980 Reinhard Sander Frankfurt am Main section
1980-1992 Fritz March Highlands section
1992-2003 Josef Klenner Section Beckum
1 Incomplete, data is still missing here
2 Resignation: November 1959
3 Died: 1967

2nd chairman

Term of office 2nd chairman section
1950-1958 Alfred Heizer Mountain Spirit Section
1959-1964 Hans von Bomhard Highlands section
1965-1970 Hans Faber Section Swabia
1971-1976 Heinrich Frank Section Munich
1977-1979 Hans Zollner Section Alpine Ski Club Munich
1979-1985 Raimund Zehetmeier Section Munich
1985-1994 Gerhard Friedel Section Munich
1998-2000 Herwig Sedlmayer Section Bayerland
2000-2003 Klaus Strittmatter Geislingen section

3rd chairman

Term of office 3rd chairman section
1950-1955 Josef Goubeau Section Göttingen
1956-1960 Hans Dütting Food section
1961-1964 Hans Faber Section Swabia
1965-1966 Ulrich Mann Section Swabia
1967-1972 Hans-Jochen Schneider Section Dresden / Section Bayerland
1973-1978 Hans Domcke Section Ebersberg-Grafing
1978-1979 Wilhelm Hällfritzsch Section Swabia
1979-1984 Klaus-Jürgen Gran Osnabrück Section
1984-1996 Carl-Hermann Bellinger Section Düsseldorf
1996-2003 Ingo Buchelt Allgäu-Kempten section

President since 2003

Term of office president section
2003-2005 Josef Klenner Section Beckum
2005-2010 Heinz Röhle Section Oberland
2010 Ludwig Wucherpfennig Hildesheim Section
2010 Josef Klenner Section Beckum

structure

Josef Klenner, President of the DAV, 2012

Sections

The DAV with the federal office in Munich is an umbrella organization for currently 358 sections called independent member clubs, all of which in turn registered clubs are. Membership in the DAV is only possible indirectly for natural persons via the sections. The sections are largely independent, many of them have their own offices, training and event programs as well as climbing and bouldering halls. In larger cities there are often several sections, some with very different focuses and membership numbers.

The sections are connected to section days or section associations at regional level. There are also 11 regional associations.

The organs of the umbrella association are the general assembly, the executive committee and the association council.

Youth organization

The youth organization of the German Alpine Club is the "Youth of the German Alpine Club" (JDAV).

The JDAV is divided into individual regional associations, which in turn can be divided into individual district associations. Accordingly, in addition to the federal youth leadership, there are individual state and district youth leaderships as representatives of the young people. The representatives in the federal, state and district youth leaderships are elected by the youth leaders of the DAV and represent the interests of the JDAV vis-à-vis the Alpine Association and the public.

Metallurgy

The Freiburg hut as an example of an Alpine Club hut

The German Alpine Club looks after 321 Alpine Club huts (2018) in 208 hut-owning sections , of which 195 are managed with around 20,500 guest room spaces and 65 are looked after. 67 cases are self-catering huts or bivouac camps. 78 huts are located in the German low mountain range.

The Brandenburg House in the Ötztal Alps in the Berlin section is the DAV's highest hut at 3,277 meters. The Rappenseehütte , 2091  m in the Allgäu , in the Allgäu-Kempten section , is the largest managed hut, the smallest self-catering hut with four mattress beds is the Breitenkopfhütte , 2017  m , in the Mieminger Mountains (DAV section Coburg). The Bochumer Hütte , 1430  m , in the Kitzbühel Alps , Tyrol , Austria , was built as early as 1832, making it the DAV's oldest Category 1 hut . The latest DAV hut is the Waltenbergerhaus in the Allgäu Alps at 2084 meters. The old Waltenbergerhaus was completely demolished in 2015 and the replacement building opened in 2017.

There are around 750,000 overnight stays per year on the approximately 20,000 beds, depending on the hut, the numbers are between 300 and 21,600, the maximum amount per overnight stay was set at 18 euros at the general meeting. The DAV is worried about 100 alpine club huts with less than 1000 overnight stays per year, here the income is hardly sufficient for financing (new acquisitions, water treatment, sewage treatment plant, energy systems). An example is the provision costs of five euros for a liter of water on a hut without its own source, which are not in relation to the income from the guests (1 l iced tea for 3 € or free use of the toilet).

The DAV itself (main association) operates three alpine huts in Austria. The farmed DAV-Haus Obertauern of category 2 in the Radstadt Tauern at 1,735  meters above sea level. A. , the self-catering hut Klostertaler Umwelthütte of category 1 in the Silvretta at 2366  m above sea level. A. and the managed New Prague Hut Category 1 in the Venediger Group at 2796  m above sea level. A.

Every year, the sections request 20 million euros for construction work, but only 10 million euros of this can be made available.

competitive sport

A climbing wall that the DAV set up especially for a climbing competition

As a sports association, the Alpine Club looks after the national climbing and ski mountaineering teams . There are also junior teams at the section level. The IOC decided on August 4, 2016 that sport climbing would be an Olympic sport from 2020 .

For competitive sports, there are bases in Bad Tölz for climbing and in Bad Reichenhall for ski mountaineering. He also organizes the international competitions that take place in Germany in both sports and bouldering .

Expedition and performance mountaineering is promoted by the "DAV Expedkader". A women's and a men's team of young alpinists are trained over a two-year period.

natural reserve

Reaching the Alpine region in an ecologically sensible way has long been a concern of the Alpine Association. In the picture, a Deutsche Bahn AG locomotive painted accordingly in the green DAV colors with the corresponding logo, which promotes responsible, gentle mobility in a publicly effective way: With the train into the mountains

As early as 1927, nature conservation was included in the statutes of the Alpine clubs. Today, in the interests of future generations, the Sections are equally committed to preventing the destruction of nature, reducing environmental pollution and promoting sustainable development in the Alpine region.

The environmental seal of approval for alpine club huts , which the alpine clubs have created, wants to be a signal internally and externally to promote and spread the idea of gentle tourism .

The German Alpine Association is a nature conservation association recognized according to § 63 BNatSchG and a member of the German Nature Conservation Ring .

aims

Membership badge

In the early days of the DAV, the main goals were to share experiences and develop the Alps through paths and accommodation houses ( mountain huts ). The Alpine Club currently operates 321 such accommodation houses, known as Alpine Club huts , with around 20,000 overnight accommodations. The huts are owned by individual sections, but are open to all alpinists. Many sections also maintain non-public accommodation houses that are only accessible to section members in all parts of the Alps and the German low mountain ranges. The Alpine Club also operates 180 climbing facilities and climbing halls .

In addition, the DAV also acts as a representative and service provider for mountain sports enthusiasts, for example for insurance, rental equipment or maps .

In the 1980s and 1990s, there was an increased focus on nature conservation , which was also included as a central goal in the basic program of 1994. The touristic development of the Alps was declared over, since then no more huts and paths have been built, only the existing infrastructure is maintained or buildings are replaced.

Others

The Alpine Club maintains an Alpine Museum in Munich . On the picture a part of the alpine garden with rock samples from different regions of the Alps

Publications

Together with the Austrian Alpine Club and the South Tyrol Alpine Club , the DAV publishes the Alpine Club Guide series of paperbacks , which is published by Bergverlag Rother in Munich. The annual Alpine Club Yearbook is also published jointly with both clubs .

With panoramic the free for members bimonthly magazine of the German Alpine Club .

Mountain trips and expeditions

Since 1984, the DAV has also acted as a commercial organizer of sometimes very demanding mountain tours and expeditions through its subsidiary " DAV Summit Club " .

Alpine Museum

On the Praterinsel in Munich the association maintains the Alpine Museum , which mainly deals with the history of the association and alpinism in general.

Special stamp

For the 150th anniversary of the association, a special Deutsche Post stamp was issued on April 4, 2019.

literature

  • Rainer Amstädter: Mountaineering . Culture, organization, politics. WUV-Universitäts-Verlag, Vienna 1996, ISBN 3-85114-273-X .
  • Anneliese Gidl: Alpine Association. The townspeople discover the Alps. The German and Austrian Alpine Association from its foundation to the end of the First World War. Böhlau, Vienna et al. 2007, ISBN 978-3-205-77668-0 ( review )
  • Nicholas Mailänder : Under the sign of edelweiss. The history of Munich as a mountaineering city. AS-Verlag, Zurich 2006, ISBN 3-909111-28-9 .
  • Provisional committee of the Munich section: appeal to all German friends of the Alps! Appeals for founding DAV 1869 . June 1869 ( historisches-alpenarchiv.org [PDF; 284 kB ; accessed on August 27, 2010]).
  • Helmuth Zebhauser: Alpinism - quo vadis? (= Alpine Museum of the German Alpine Association. Series of publications. Volume 3). German Alpine Club, Munich 1999, OCLC 76368279

Web links

Commons : Deutscher Alpenverein  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c The DAV in numbers. German Alpine Association e. V., accessed on June 28, 2020 .
  2. ↑ Inventory survey 2019. Membership statistics. German Olympic Sports Confederation , November 1, 2019, accessed on January 14, 2020 (PDF, 533 kB).
  3. ^ Alpenverein.de: European mountaineering umbrella organization EUMA founded in Munich
  4. ↑ Helmuth Zebhauser: Alpinism in the Hitler State (= documents of alpinism. Volume 1). Bergverlag Rother, Munich 1998, ISBN 3-7633-8102-3 . News about the anti-Semitism of the association: Nicholas Mailänder: The darkest chapter of our association's history. The Danube country affair of the DÖAV. In: Panorama. Magazine of the German Alpine Club. Vol. 59, Issue 1, 2007, pp. 60–62, see web links: Donaulandaffäre.
  5. ^ UIAA: Circular letter to all UIAA Member Federations . (PDF; 90 kB) accessed January 10, 2012.
  6. ^ Jörg Eberlein: Farewell of the DAV from the international mountaineering organization UIAA . (PDF; 3.4 MB) accessed January 10, 2012.
  7. ↑ czechclimbing.com termination letter verbatim - without reference to the Olympic Games
  8. ↑ Press Release: German and Austrian alpine clubs to rejoin UIAA. (No longer available online.) UIAA October 5, 2013, archived from the original on December 8, 2015 ; accessed on June 23, 2018 (English).
  9. ↑ DAV-Bibliothek.de: Festschrift 125 Years of the German Alpine Club (PDF file), page 5
  10. ↑ German Alpine Association (ed.): The mountains and us . 150 years of the German Alpine Club. Prestel Verlag , 2019, ISBN 978-3-7913-5886-4 (320 pages).
  11. ↑ Section days section associations, regional associations alpenverein.de,
  12. ↑ structure of the DAV alpenverein.de,
  13. ↑ DAV Panorama, magazine of the German Alpine Club. ISSN  1437-5923 , Munich, January 2013, p. 38 ff.
  14. ^ DAV: Climbing
  15. ^ DAV: Ski mountaineering
  16. ^ IOC approves five new Olympic sports . spiegel.de. Retrieved September 6, 2016.
  17. ↑ Expedition squad - goals and selection criteria , alpenverein.de
  18. ↑ DAV Expedition Team History - Promotion of ambitious mountaineering through the ages, alpenverein.de
  19. ↑ Anniversary stamp