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Exclusion of the Donauland Section From the Alpine Club in 1924--Important Lecture
How did the early, momentous anti-Semitism in the Alpine Club come about, long before the National Socialists came to power? Hanno Loewy, Director of the Jewish Museum Hohenems (Austria), gave a remarkable lecture on this topic in December 2024 at a DAV commemorative event to mark the 100th anniversary of the exclusion of the Donauland section. In it, he also described the central role that mountain-loving Jews played in the development of the Alps. The DAV, German Federal Association, has made the lecture available for download. In addition, there is now a wealth of further work on various aspects of anti-Semitism in the Alpine Club.
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Abused and Abducted: The Reichspogromnacht and the Victims of the Section
Jewish members of the Frankfurt Alpine Club section were also victims of the November pogroms in 1938. As far as we can reconstruct, the outbreak of violence in the city, which lasted several days, was not directly echoed in the section at the time, which had already been brought into line with the Nazis. At the same time, we cannot rule out the possibility that members loyal to the Nazis were involved in the serious riots, arson and mistreatment of Jews.
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Stumbling Stones Commemorate Martha and Hugo Bauer and Their Children
At Kettenhofweg 70 in Frankfurt on the Main, where the Bauer family home once stood, stumbling stones have been in place for a few days to commemorate the five people who fled Nazi persecution: the dentist Martha Bauer, her husband, the chemist Hugo Bauer, who were both members of the Frankfurt Alpine Club section at the time, and their children Hildegard, Hans Jakob and Doris. Armin Prass from our tracing team attended the ceremony on October 29, 2024, we met the grandson Jon Bauer and can now present a lot of new information and photos.
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Further Biografies Posted Online
Step by step, we are putting more biographies online or adding to existing entries. For example, for the first time you can read about our former Jewish member Else Bermann (1897-1937). In addition, thanks to the help of granddaughters of Otto Aschaffenburg (1878-1942), who live in the USA, a series of pictures of him and his family has been created. The biography of Paul Spiro (1892-1975) has been expanded to include an original soundtrack and a short series of pictures thanks to a granddaughter in Switzerland.
Excluded--New Brochure on the Donauland Affair in the Alpine Club
100 years ago, in December 1924, the German and Austrian Alpine Association (DuÖAV) excluded the Donauland section, which was mainly made up of Jewish mountaineers. It was the sad culmination of years of anti-Semitic agitation in the Alpine Club, which had become increasingly aggressive. To mark the commemorative year, a new German Alpine Club (DAV) brochure now takes a look at what happened back then.
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