Mainz section of the German Alpine Club

Mainz section of the German Alpine Club e. V. (DAV section Mainz)
legal form	Registered association
founding	March 19, 1883 as "Section Mainz of the German and Austrian Alpine Club" in Mainz
Seat	Mainz , Rhineland-Palatinate
Chair	Peter Hirsch (1st Chair) Sonja Haug (2nd Chair)
Managing directors	Ruth Lengersdorff
Members	7638 (as of December 31, 2019)
Website	DAV–Mainz.de

The Mainz section of the German Alpine Club e. V. ( DAV section Mainz for short ) is a section of the German Alpine Club based in Mainz . The Mainz section was founded on March 19, 1883, making it one of the older and, with 7638 members (as of December 31, 2019), one of the larger sections of the German Alpine Club , and after the 1. FSV Mainz 05, the largest club in Mainz.

history

On December 7th, 1882, it was decided to found a section in Mainz, which was then founded on March 19th, 1883 as "Section Mainz of the German and Austrian Alpine Club", it is considered one of the founding members of the German Alpine Club.

The section takes care of the Mainzer Höhenweg in the Ötztal Alps with the Rhineland-Palatinate bivouac at 3247  m above sea level. A. , the Kaunergrathütte in the Pitztal Alps at 2817  m above sea level. A. , and the Franz-Auer-Steig .

The small Mainzer Höhenweg was laid out as a hiking trail around the city of Mainz . The DAV climbing center Kletterkiste is located in the Mombach district of the hometown . In Trechtingshausen in Morgenbachtal is the native climbing area .

Membership numbers

The development of membership numbers in recent years.

year Members 1984 1966 1985 1922 1986 1919 1987 1985 1988 1991 1989 2019 1990 2066 1991 2145 1992 2203 1993 2331

year Members 1994 2359 1995 2417 1996 2470 1997 2481 1998 2440 1999 2514 2000 2468 2001 2529 2002 2558 2003 2726

year Members 2004 2805 2005 2975 2006 3350 2007 3724 2019 7638

Section names since foundation

since	Section name
03/19/1883	Section Mainz of the German and Austrian Alpine Club
03/27/1901	Mainz section of the German and Austrian Alpine Club Mainz
0April 7, 1927	Alpine Club Section Mainz registered association
March 29, 1935	Mainz Section of the German and Austrian Alpine Club Mainz, registered association
02/25/1944	German Alpine Club Mainz branch
0September 6, 1950	Alpine Club Mainz
04/29/1952	Mainz section of the German Alpine Club (DAV)
07/22/1968	German Alpine Club Section Mainz EV

Section Chair

A chronological overview of all chairpersons  ^{1 of} the section since it was founded.

Term of office Chairman  1 1882-1901 Ferdinand Vohsen 1  2 1901-1905 Alexander Hammesfahr 1901-1906 Rudolf Busch 1901-1907 Thomas Falk 1901-1908 Karl Willms 1901-1910 Peter Eichhorn 1901-1911 Wilhelm Kepplinger 1901-1913 Friedrich Carlebach 1901-1917 Ferdinand Vohsen 2  2 1901-1917 Robert Braden 1901-1917 Adam Allendorf 1901-1918 Franz Gill 1  2 1901-1923 Karl Theyer 1905-1908 Heinrich son 1906-1915 Balduin Traut 1907-1909 Jacob Völker 1  2 1907-1933 Adolf Guttmann 1907-1917 Anton Player 1908-1910 Johann Goldmann 1908-1917 Fritz Causé

Term of office Chairman  1 1908-1917 E. Kramer 1909-1917 Josef Cordnonnier 1909-1921 Jan Kalkhof 1910-1923 Francis Mitterbauer 1911-1917 Bernhard Kalkhof 1913-1917 A. Hofmann 1915-1917 Hans Collischon 1918-1921 Carl Blaesi 1921-1927 Eugen Meyer 1921-1933 Franz Gill 2  2 1923-1935 Josef Metzger 1923-1935 Wilhelm Fuchs 1923-1944 Jacob Völker 2  2 1927-1933 Anton Lang 1933-1935 Alexander Sternberg 1933-1935 Franz Meunier 1933-1944 Fritz Gassner 1935-1950 Oskar Henne 1944-1950 Jakob Klippel 1944-1950 Phillip Seitz

Term of office Chairman  1 1949-1958 Eugene Schneider 1958-1964 Peter Emmermann 1964-1966 Günther Behren 1966-1971 Rolf Ullmann 1971-1982 Heiner Geissler 1982-1986 Hermann Kohl 1986-1999 Heinrich Gollong † 1999-2000 Rudi Kramper 2000-2004 Philipp Albert 2004-2007 Karl-Hans Gürlet 2007-2018 Rolf Lennartz 2018– Peter Hirsch

Remarks

¹ From 1901 to 1949 several persons were active in the chair, where there is no fixed allocation to the chair.

² Ferdinand Vohsen, Franz Gill and Jakob Völker each had two terms of office.

Huts of the section

• Kaunergrathütte at 2817  m above sea level. A. in the ( Ötztal Alps )
• Rhineland-Palatinate bivouac at 3247  m above sea level. A. in the (Ötztal Alps)

Former hut

• Mainzer Hut at 2269  m above sea level. A. in the ( Glockner group ) today as "Schwarzenberghütte" owned by the Austrian Mountain Association of a section of the PES

High trails

• Franz-Auer-Steig
• Small Mainzer Höhenweg
• Mainzer Höhenweg

Climbing center

• DAV climbing center Mainz in Mainz-Mombach

Known members

• Heiner Geißler (1930–2017), former section chairman (1971 to 1982)

Web links

• Section Mainz
• Section writings of the Mainz section (digital copies of the DAV library)
• Mainz section in the historical Alpine archive of the Alpine associations in Germany, Austria and South Tyrol (temporarily offline)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} DAV-Mainz.de: 125 years of the Mainz section (PDF file)
2. ^ ^{A b} Section Mainz of the German Alpine Club. Retrieved May 26, 2020 . 
3. ↑ DAV-Bibliothek.de: Commemorative Section Mainz 1883-2008 (page 21)
4. ↑ ^{a b} DAV-Bibliothek.de: Festschriften section Mainz 1883-1983 (pages 17 and 18)
5. ↑ DAV-Bibliothek.de: Commemorative Section Mainz 1883-2008 (page 20)
6. ↑ Kletterkiste-Mainz.de: DAV climbing center Mainz