Section Swabia of the German Alpine Club

Section Swabia of the German Alpine Club (DAV) 1869 e. V. ; (DAV Swabia)
legal form	registered association
founding	October 28, 1869
Seat	Stuttgart , Baden-Wuerttemberg
purpose	Promotion of mountaineering and alpine sports, preservation of the mountain world, expansion of knowledge about the mountains
Chair	Frank Boettiger
Members	34,820 (as of December 31, 2019)
Website	Alpenverein-Schwaben.de

The Swabian section of the German Alpine Club (DAV) 1869 e. V. ( DAV Schwaben for short ) is part of the German Alpine Club . The section has over 34,800 members (as of December 31, 2019) one of the largest sports clubs in Germany (currently ranked 16th) and the third largest section of the German Alpine Club . After VfB Stuttgart with 70,000 members and ahead of the Stuttgart section of the DAV with around 29,000 members, it is the second largest club in Stuttgart .

founding

The Swabian section, founded on October 28, 1869, is one of the oldest of the German Alpine Club; it was brought into being shortly after the main club was founded by, among others, Theodor Harpprecht .

The founding members were C. Bach, Blum, Obertribunalrat v. Föhr, Gantter, Freiherr von Gemmingen , Theodor Harpprecht, district judge Hegler, lecturer Negele, city judge Hermann, judicial assessor Pischek, lawyer Tafel. The Swabian section is one of the founding sections of the DAV, which was founded shortly before in Munich.

From the Swabian section, the Ulm section emerged in 1879, the Schwarzer Grat / Leutkirch section in 1881 ( Leutkirch section ) and the Ravensburg section in 1888 ; the Tübingen section was founded in 1890 by members of the Swabian section, as was the Heilbronn section in 1891 .

history

The first lecture at the Swabian section was about the southern valleys of Monte Rosa by Professor Ganter in 1870.

In 1874 membership fees were raised to 2 marks.

In 1878 a loan was taken out to buy over 300 books for 300 marks, which came from the estate of Professor Ganter, which were the cornerstone of the section library that still exists today.

In 1880 a hut cash office was set up and a committee was authorized to begin the preparatory work for the construction of a hut, as early as 1881 the Jamtal in the Silvretta was named as a suitable location, and the construction of the hut was decided at the general assembly. On August 20, 1882, the Jamtalhütte was inaugurated, the construction of which cost 4,498 marks.

8 years later the Hallerangerhaus was inaugurated in 1901.

The mapping of the Jamtal was completed in 1905, the costs incurred by the Section. In the same year a snowshoe department was founded, which in 1907 founded the Swabian Snowshoe Association with the Baiersbronn Snowshoe Association .

In 1908 it was decided to build another hut in the Krabbenjoch ( Lechtal ), which was inaugurated on August 1, 1910.

The construction of another hut in the Schwarzwasseralpe in Kleinwalsertal was already started in 1913 in the following year, also in 1914 the Hallerangerhaus was destroyed by an avalanche .

After the First World War , when trips to the Alps were not possible, work on the huts could be carried out again in 1919, so that the Schwarzwasserhütte could be opened in 1920 , the Hallerangerhaus could only be reopened 4 years later in 1924. The Schwabenhaus near Bürserberg in the Rätikon was purchased in 1925 .

In 1935 the Harprechthaus was inaugurated in Schopfloch ( Lenningen / Esslingen district ) and a year later the inauguration of the Stuttgarter-Hütte, which was newly built, followed.

Due to the outbreak of the Second World War , all the huts were closed between 1939 and 1943, and in 1944, the 75th anniversary of the section, the office and all its inventory were destroyed by a bomb attack.

Due to an instruction from the military government , the section had to be closed at the end of the war, and all huts of the German Alpine Club in Austria were expropriated.

As early as 1948, the section obtained an "official re-approval" from the military government, but the huts were not returned to the sections until 1956.

Bernhard Huhn, Frieder Knauss, Günter Hauser and Horst Wiedmann from the section were involved in the first ascent of the Alpamayo in 1957 . In the same year, the Werkmannhaus near Sirchingen ( Bad Urach ) was inaugurated.

May 6, 1965 The first ascent of Gangapurna (7455 m) was achieved by a DAV expedition led by Günter Hauser.

In 1975 two members of the section managed the first ascent of Tent Peak (5500 m)

Sections that emerged from the Swabian section

The following sections emerged from the Swabian section:

The Ulm section

The Ulm Section was founded on April 19, 1879 , from which the Neu-Ulm Section emerged on October 25, 1901 .

The SSV Ulm 1846 section of the German Alpine Club, however, did not start from the Ulm section, but from 7 members of the Ulm Gymnastics Association who founded the Ulm Gymnastics Association in January 1912.

The Ravensburg section

On May 3, 1988, the Ulm section became the Ravensburg section , which was the 164th section of the German Alpine Club.

The Tübingen section

On March 4, 1891, the Tübingen section of the German Alpine Club was founded by the central committee and the Swabian section .

The Heilbronn section

The Heilbronn Section was founded on December 15, 1891, at which point it already had 63 members.

Ebingen, Heidenheim (Brenztal section), Ludwigsburg and Schorndorf

Due to the fact that the Swabian section neglected the local group work, the following local groups separated from the Swabian section in 1948 and founded their own sections.

District groups of the Swabian section

The Swabian section has a total of 10 still active district groups:

The Aalen district group was founded in 1930
The Laichingen district group was founded in 1949
The Kirchheim district group was founded in 1951
The Ellwangen district group was founded in 1955
The Nürtingen district group was founded in 1966
The Calw district group was founded in 1969
The district group Rems-Murr and Rommelshausen was founded in 1970
The Böblingen-Sindelfingen district group was founded in 1982
District group Esslingen
District group Sudeten

Section Chair

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

Term of office	president	annotation
1869-1872	Ludwig Gantter	Professor at the Polytechnicum in Stuttgart
1872-1876	Wilhelm of Gemmingen	Wuerttemberg consistorial president
1876-1878	Gantter
1878-1883	Herrmann	District Court Director
1883-1897	Andreas von Renner	Finance Director
1897-1909	Robert Klaiber	Oberfinanzrat
1909-1911	Adolf Schiedmayer	Go Commerce Council
1912-1914	Robert Teichmann	Reich judge
1914-1920	Anton Entreß
1920-1933	Paul Dinkelacker
1933-1945	Hermann Cuhorst
1945-1947	Albert Burger
1947-1949	Karl Stockinger
1949-1953	Felix Reichert
1953-1970	Eugene Heinz
1970-1979	Wilhelm Hällfritzsch
1979-1990	Ernst Schaude
1990-1999	Horst Wiedmann
1999-2008	Dieter fear
2008-2014	Wilhelm Schloz
Since 2014	Frank Boettiger

Known members

Hermann Eiselen (1926–2009), entrepreneur and patron
Hans Faber (1910-2004)
Walther Flaig (Walter Flaig)
Wilhelm Hällfritzsch
Günter Hauser
Julius Kugy
Magdalene Lang
Ulrich Mann
Friedrich Mayer
Eugene Roller
Friedrich White
Alfons Albert Zeller

Huts of the section

The section owns the following refuges :

Alps

Hallerangerhaus , 1768 m ( Karwendel )
Jamtalhütte , 2165 m ( Silvretta )
Schwabenhaus , 1198 m ( Rätikon )
Schwarzwasserhütte , 1620 m ( Allgäu Alps )
Stuttgarter Hütte , 2310 m ( Lechtal Alps )
Sudetendeutsche Hütte , 2650 m ( Granatspitzgruppe )

Swabian Alb

Memorial hut , 765 m
Harp right house , 765 m
Werkmannhaus , 756 m

Former huts of the section

Aljažev dom (Aljažev house), 1002 m ( Julian Alps )
Berghaus Hinterreute , 969 m ( Allgäu Alps )
Halleranger SV hut , 1765 m ( Karwendel )

Climbing facilities

DAV bouldering center and climbing center Stuttgart
Reiner Schwebel climbing hall
Climbing hall Kirchheim
DAV bouldering center and climbing center Swabia - Rockerei

Web links

Section Swabia
Section writings of the Swabian section (digital copies of the DAV library)
Swabia section in the historical Alpine archive of the Alpine clubs in Germany, Austria and South Tyrol (temporarily offline)

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d Alpenverein-Schwaben.de: Section history

↑ ^a ^b Section Swabia , German Alpine Association, alpenverein.de ; Section website: Section Swabia

↑ ^a ^b DAV-Bibliothek.de: Section publications, Schwaben section (PDF file), page 5

^ DAV German Alpine Association Swabia section: Chronology. Retrieved June 21, 2019 .

↑ Festschrift 125 DAV Section Swabia

↑ Festschrift 125 Years of the Ulm Section

↑ Festschrift 100 years of DAV Ravensburg

↑ 60 years of the Tübingen section

↑ Festschrift 100 years of Heilbronn section

^ DAV German Alpine Association, Swabian Section: Overview. Retrieved June 21, 2019 .

↑ So in the publications of the Swabian section. However, Ludwig Gantter, born in 1815, an alpinist who published several publications about his mountain tours in the Alpenfreund , died in 1876. His estate, like that of Harpprecht, came to the Württemberg State Library. Cf. life data in: The manuscripts of the Württembergische Landesbibliothek Stuttgart: Codices Poetici Et Philologici, Wiesbaden 1981, pp. 55–56.