German Alpine Club

German Alpine Club
SportMountaineering
CategoryAmateur athletic association
Founded9 May 1869 (1869-05-09)
AffiliationInternational Federation of Sport Climbing
Regional affiliation356 sections[1]
HeadquartersMunich
PresidentJosef Klenner
Official website
alpenverein.de
Germany

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 is an association made up of local branches known as 'sections'.

  1. ^ "German Alpine Club in numbers" (in German). Deutscher Alpenverein. 31 December 2023. Retrieved 16 August 2024.