Section (Alpine club)

The section of the Alpine Club (or of another Alpine Association ) is an independent association, which together with the other sections of the main club ( " Alpine Club "). Only through membership in a section of a member of the Alpine Club is possible. The association's work an Alpine Club section consists in the maintenance of tradition and culture, mountaineering training of their members, the planning and implementation of mountaineering and expeditions, but also the maintenance of huts and trails in the mountains. Many sections have mountain huts. After the original objective of the Alpine clubs, tourist and mountaineering development of the Alps, is now widely regarded in Central Europe as completed, the work of the sections are tending in the service sector, including as organizer of alpine courses and tours as well as supporting association of indoor climbing centers.

  • The German Alpine Club consists of 354 legally independent sections with a total of about 892,000 members (as of Annual Report 2010). These are spread all over Germany, where number and geographic coverage of the sections from north to south increase significantly: while ( Neubrandenburg ) is, for example, in the postal code area 17, only a single section ( Rostock), exist in Munich on 20 sections. More recently, also the sections were founded, the act is less than Alpine Club representatives in a specific area, but contact point for mountain sports enthusiasts with certain inclinations, such as the Gay Outdoor Club Munich. The number of members of the Alpine club sections vary from under a hundred to tens of thousands; the two largest German Alpine Club sections, the Munich-based sections of Munich and Upper Country, form a cooperative partnership ( with a free membership at the other section ) and have shared more than 110,000 members. Thus, they are just after the FC Bayern Munich the largest membership of any sports club in Germany.
  • The Austrian Alpine Club consists of 196 sections with a total of 320,000 members.
  • The Alpine Club Südtirol consists of 32 sections with a total of 57,400 members.
  • The Italian Alps Club consists of 487 sections and 312 subsections with a total of 304,000 members.
  • The Swiss Alpine Club consists of 111 sections with a total of 111,000 members.
  • The Club Alpin Français consists of 193 sections with a total of 90,000 members.

Not all Alpine clubs have this section structure. An example of a central association has no child sections is the British Alpine Club.

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