German and Austrian Alpine Club

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In the German and Austrian Alpine Association ( DuÖAV , also DÖAV or DuOeAV ), the Imperial German, German-Austrian and German-Bohemian branches of the Alpine Association were united from 1873 to 1938.

history

The Austrian Alpine Club was founded in 1862 around the Vienna section Austria as the first mountaineering association on the European mainland and thus the second oldest in the world after the British Alpine Club . The DAV went out in the May 9, 1869 Munich based education Civil Mountaineering Association forth. The founders were mostly dissatisfied members of the Austrian Alpine Association, founded seven years earlier, who wanted to support the tourist development of the Alps not only morally and academically, but actively, for example by building huts and paths.

At the suggestion of the Ötztal parish curate Franz Senn , the DAV merged with the OeAV to form the DuOeAV in 1873 . The association was federalist and divided into independent sections . The glacier measuring service was established in 1891 . In 1918 the Alpine Club received 40 km² of land in the Großglockner-Pasterze area from the Villach timber industrialist Albert Wirth, which later formed the basis for the Hohe Tauern National Park . In 1927 the statutes were expanded to include the focus on preserving the originality and beauty of the high mountains .

It was shaped by a nationalist and anti-Semitic orientation. In some sections the Aryan paragraph was already being used at the beginning of the 20th century . In the Vienna section of the German and Austrian Alpine Club, a statute stipulated as early as 1905 that only Germans of Aryan descent could become members; In 1907 and 1910, the Academic Sections in Vienna and Munich also banned Jews from membership, others followed suit. In 1921 the National Socialist Eduard Pichl became chairman of the Austria section of the DuÖAV and began to enforce anti-Semitism. In the same year the Donauland section was founded, in which many excluded Jewish mountaineers gathered, u. a. Viktor Frankl , Fred Zinnemann , Joseph Braunstein . In 1924 this section was excluded from the entire association, and 98 of the 110 Austrian Alpine Association sections now formally introduced the Aryan paragraph. Jews were not allowed to be members or to be entertained in the club huts.

The DuÖAV, which was based in Stuttgart from 1933 to 1937, was initially able to evade direct access by the National Socialist Reich Association for Physical Exercise (NSRL) due to its intergovernmental position . In 1938 after the annexation of Austria and the Sudetenland , the DuÖAV , now only the German Alpine Association (DAV), was incorporated into the NSRL as a mountaineering association . Arthur Seyß-Inquart became the club leader. After the end of the war, the association was dissolved.

In 1945 the Austrian Alpine Association (OeAV) was re-established, which until 1952 re-established the German Alpine Association (DAV) administered the assets and property (huts) of the Reich and West German sections in trust.

The associations OeAV and DAV as well as the AVS ( Alpine Association South Tyrol ) now call each other friends and work closely together. They and the Liechtenstein Alpine Association , which was founded in 1909 as the Liechtenstein section of the DuOeAV, are members of the multilateral agreement on reciprocal rights to huts .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Uphill 2/2016. In: alpenverein.at. Pp. 6-7 , accessed December 13, 2016 .
  2. ↑ see web link special exhibition of the German Alpine Club
  3. ↑ The Alpine Club. Liechtenstein Alpine Club, accessed on July 23, 2020 .