11-563: The German Alpine Club (German: Deutscher Alpenverein , DAV for short) is the world's largest climbing association and the eighth-largest sporting association in Germany . It is a member of the German Olympic Sports Confederation and the competent body for sport and competition climbing, hiking , mountaineering , hill walking , ice climbing , mountain expeditions, as well as ski mountaineering . It
22-585: A large membership from the beginning, attracting 1,070 members in the first ten months. The German and the Austrian societies merged in 1873 to form the German and Austrian Alpine Club (DÖAV). By the late 19th century, the association's policies became increasingly nationalistic and anti-Semitic . In 1899, the Brandenburg section amended an " Aryan paragraph " to exclude non-Christian members, followed by
33-654: Is an association made up of local branches known as 'sections'. The German Alpine Club was founded as Bildungsbürgerlicher Bergsteigerverein on 9 May 1869 in Munich by 36 former members of the Austrian Alpine Club around the Ötztal curate Franz Senn . It was founded in order to promote the development of tourism in the Eastern Alps through the building of mountain huts , and establishment of hiking trails , and via ferratas . The association had
44-479: The Union Internationale des Associations d'Alpinisme in 2013. The DAV is an umbrella organization comprising 356 legally independent regional sections with a total of around 1.5 million members. Every branch is a registered voluntary association ( Eingetragener Verein , e.V.) in its own right and solely responsible for admitting members. The collective body of the branches is represented by
55-594: The Vienna section in 1905 and the Alpine associations of Vienna in 1907 and Munich in 1910. After World War I , Jewish members, including Viktor Frankl and Fred Zinnemann , who made up one third of the membership, were banned in most branches. They, in turn, established a separate Donauland section, insisting on recognition by the DÖAV. The Donauland members were officially ousted in 1924. Jews were even banned from using
66-1246: The Alpine Museum on Prater Island in Munich . In recent years, the Club's policies have shifted towards habitat conservation , with a particular focus on the protection of the fauna and flora of the Alps . Alpine Club The first alpine club , the Alpine Club , based in the United Kingdom , was founded in London in 1857 as a gentlemen's club . It was once described as: Alpine clubs are typically large social clubs that revolve around climbing, hiking, and other outdoor activities. Many alpine clubs also take on aspects typically reserved for local sport associations , providing education and training courses, services for outdoorsmen, and de facto regulation of local mountaineering resources and behavior of mountaineers. Most clubs organize social events, schedule outings, and stage climbing competitions, operate alpine huts and paths, and are active in protecting
77-647: The DAV was dissolved by the Allied authorities. Its assets were held by the Austrian Alpine Club , acting as trustees. The German Alpine Club was re-established in 1952. It joined the Deutscher Sportbund in 1992. After leaving the Union Internationale des Associations d'Alpinisme in 2008 due to differences of opinion regarding competitive and recreational sports, the German and Austrian Alpine Clubs rejoined
88-612: The DÖAV mountain huts. Following Austrian Anschluss to Nazi Germany in 1938, the DÖAV, under the leadership of Arthur Seyss-Inquart , was renamed as the Deutscher Alpenverein (DAV) and was incorporated into the Nationalsozialistischer Reichsbund für Leibesübungen (National Socialist League of the Reich for Physical Exercise) as its mountaineering association. After World War II ,
99-525: The alpine environment . With around 1,500,000 members the German Alpine Club is usually reckoned as the largest alpine club in the world. DAV Panorama DAV Panorama is a mountaineering magazine which is distributed to the members of the German Alpine Club (DAV). It has been published since 1999 and is one of the most read magazines in its category in Europe. DAV Panorama
110-541: The general assembly, association council, and presidium. The primary task of the Club is the maintenance of its mountain huts through its sections which currently provide 325 alpine club huts for hikers and mountaineers as well as 220 indoor climbing gyms. The DAV publishes DAV Panorama magazine, Alpine Club maps and Alpine Club Guides in cooperation with Bergverlag Rother , organises hill walks and alpine-style tours, makes mountaineering equipment available to rent and arranges collective insurance. It also runs
121-465: Was established in 1999. It is the official media outlet of the DAV and is distributed to all members. The goal of the magazine to assist the DAV in reaching its aims. DAV Panorama mostly features articles on mountaineering in the Alps and in other regions where mountaineering activities are carried out. Its publisher was Atlas Verlag in 2010, and it comes out bimonthly. As of July 2004 DAV Panorama
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