Memorial Plaque for Jewish Mountaineers in the Friesenberghaus Ginzling

Liberal and Jewish members of the German and Austrian Alpine Club (DuOeAV) founded the section Donauland in 1921. After an antisemitic campaign, Donauland was expelled from the DuOeAV in 1924. Subsequently, 600 members of the section Berlin left the DuOeAV and founded the German Alpine Club Berlin. Together with Donauland, they built the Friesenberghaus and opened it on 3.7.1932. In 1938, the National Socialists banned and confiscated Donauland. The Friesenberghaus served the Wehrmacht as a training facility. In 1945, Donauland regained the looted Friesenberghaus and handed it over in 1968 to the section Berlin of the German Alpine Club. This section inaugurated a memorial plaque in the Friesenberghaus on 26./27.7.1980 to commemorate the persecution and murder of Jewish mountaineers during the NS period.