!!!Naturfreunde Österreichs

Naturfreunde Oesterreichs (Austrian Nature-Lovers), tourist 
association "Touristenverein die Naturfreunde" (TVN), section of the  
ASKOe, close to the Social Democratic Party (SPOe). Founded by workers 
in Vienna in 1895 with the participation of K.  Renner in order to 
cultivate mountaineering and tourism. The International Naturfreunde 
Organisation was founded in Austria in 1905, whose first head was L.  
Happisch, who also founded and edited the periodical "Der 
Naturfreund". In 1933, the Naturfreunde Oesterreichs association had 
about 200,000 members in 22 countries, it was forbidden in Austria in 
1934 but was re-established in 1945. In 1994 it had more than 150,000 
members in 250 local groups with about 250 holiday homes and mountain 
refuges. The Naturfreunde Oesterreichs association also organises 
lectures, courses and holiday camps and runs a mountaineering school.

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Sections of the association are devoted to photography (founded in 
1905), winter sports (1906), alpinism (1919, now Alpinistengilde 
extremer Bergsteiger - "alpine guild of extreme mountaineers"), 
rowing/canoeing/sailing, etc.


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