After the Second World War the club and its many branches were banned by the East German authorities, but it was refounded in West Germany in Frankfurt am Main in 1955.

In 1929 the Ore Mountain Club even had over 28,000 members in 156 branches and managed several accommodation houses on the Fichtelberg near Oberwiesenthal and the Schwartenberg between Seiffen and Neuhausen/Erzgeb.

Whilst it was still in its first year, in 1878, the first branches were formed in Schneeberg, Eibenstock, Schlema, Lößnitz, Selva, Schwarzenberg, Hartenstein, Marienberg, Glauchau-Waldenburg and Dippoldiswalde.

Under President Friedrich Hermann Löscher the Ore Mountain Club also turned to the study of local history and folklore.

"[3] Many valuable publications in the Glückauf-Verlag followed, including contributions by meritorious local historian Walter Frobe, Johannes Langer and Gerhard Heilfurth.