German and Austrian Alpine Club

In 1862 the Sektion Austria was founded in Vienna by the academics Paul Grohmann, Friedrich Simony and Edmund von Mojsisovics.

About seven years later, the Austrian mountaineer Franz Senn founded the Bildungsbürgerlicher Bergsteigerverein in Munich.

The main organisation consisted of numerous legally independent sections responsible for the upkeep of Alpine club huts and footpaths.

In 1918 the DuÖAV purchased about 40 km2 (15 sq mi) of land at the Pasterze Glacier of the Grossglockner massif, which became the nucleus of the present-day High Tauern National Park.

[1] In turn, the Sektion Donauland was founded by Viktor Frankl and Fred Zinnemann as a resort for Jewish alpinists; it was excluded from the DuÖAV main organisation in 1924.