Austrian Empire

Membership badge, with buttonhole attachment, maker: H.Gnadwie WII Kandlg.22, condition 2.

Membership badge, buttonhole version, condition 2.

Membership badge, on long pin, maker: F. Petzl Wien VI, condition 2.

Membership badge, small 23 mm, on pin, condition 2.

Membership badge 1st pattern, pin-back, maker: Hauptmünzamt Wien, condition 2.

Membership badge of the Mark Brandenburg Section, with pin, maker: Paul Küst Berlin C19, condition 2.

Its nationalist and antisemitic orientation during the interwar period is controversial. In some sections, the Aryan paragraph was already applied at the beginning of the 20th century. In the Vienna Section of the German and Austrian Alpine Club, a statute was established as early as 1905 stipulating that only Germans of Aryan descent could become members; in 1907 and 1910 respectively, the Academic Section in Vienna and Munich also prohibited Jews from membership, others followed.