Karlsruhe section of the German Alpine Club

Karlsruhe section of the German Alpine Club (DAV) e. V. ; (DAV Karlsruhe)
purpose	Promotion of mountaineering and alpine sports, preservation of the mountain world, expansion of knowledge about the mountains
Chair:	Peter Zeisberger (1st chairman) ; Clemens Appel (2nd chairman)
Establishment date:	January 31, 1870
Number of members:	9.091 (as of December 31, 2019)
Seat :	Karlsruhe , Baden-Wuerttemberg
Website:	Alpenverein-Karlsruhe.de

The Karlsruhe section of the German Alpine Club (DAV) e. V. ( DAV Karlsruhe for short ) has 9,091 members (as of December 31, 2019), making it the largest club in Karlsruhe, ahead of Karlsruher SC (with over 8,400) and SSC Karlsruhe (with 8,000), as well as one of the larger sections of the German Alpine Club in 29th place.

founding

The Karlsruhe section , founded on January 31, 1870, is one of the oldest of the German Alpine Club ; it was founded only 9 months after the main club was founded with 16 members.

The founding members were personalities from Karlsruhe such as Philipp Platz (painter), Victor von Scheffel (poet) and Robert Gerwig (builder of the Black Forest Railway). Philipp Platz became the first chairman of the section. The establishment was published in the Karlsruher Tagblatt .

history

The section was founded on January 31, 1870 by prominent citizens and personalities. Baron von Teuffel became chairman of the section in 1877. The Austrian Alpine Association OeAV was re-established after the end of the Second World War and until 1952 managed the assets and property (huts) of the DAV in trust. The Karlsruhe section was one of 234 sections after the re-establishment of the DAV in 1952, which was limited to West Germany and West Berlin. The German Alpine Association received the huts back from the OeAV in 1958. War and post-war damage was repaired. In 1987, the Baden-Baden / Murgtal section signed a sponsorship for the wild animals house. The solar system at the Hochwildehaus was put into operation in 1992. Section member Alex Schlönvogt succeeded in climbing K2 (8611 m) in the Karakoram in 1994 as part of an expedition without an oxygen device . From May 19 to 21, 1995, the Karlsruhe Section celebrated its 125th anniversary. On May 7th and 8th, 2005 the German Sport Climbing Cup was held in the Karlsruhe DAV climbing center "Art of Climbing".

Section Chair

A chronological overview of all presidents of the section since it was founded.

Term of office	president
1870-1876	Prof. Dr. space
1877-1886	Baron von Teuffel
1887-1888	Privy Councilor Hess
1889-1892	Privy Councilor Dr. Gmelin
1893-1907	Gustav Becker
1908-1912	Dr. A. Alberti
1913-1914	Dr. Ludwig Daehn
1915-1918	Prof. Dr. from Zwiedineck-Sudenhorst
1919-1920	Dr. A. Alberti
1921-1926	Karl Schrempp
1927-1933	Dr. Albert Herrmann
1934-1935	Artur Stanelle
1936-1945	Urban Schurrhammer
1946-1956	Heinrich Kastner
1957-1964	Josef Hofmann
1965-1970	Georg Fuchs
1971-1980	Helmut Wittber
1981-2005	Günther Lehmann
2005-2013	Andreas Henn
2013-2019	Susanne Schätzle
Since 2019	Peter Zeisberger