Robert Zurbriggen

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Robert Zurbriggen (born March 16, 1917 in Saas-Fee ; † April 21, 1952 ) was a Swiss officer and skier.

In 1946 he won the ski patrol race together with Louis Bourban , Franz Bumann and Leo Supersaxo as part of the 1st international ski race in Zermatt after the Second World War . At the Olympic Winter Games in 1948 he was the captain of the Swiss team in the military patrol race , which won the gold medal in this discipline , together with his brother Heinrich , Vital Vouardoux and Arnold Andenmatten . In cross-country skiing he achieved fifth place in the 4 × 10 km relay together with Niklaus Stump , Max Müller and Edi Schild and 26th in 18 km cross-country skiing.

Together with Adrian Andenmatten , Hubert Bumann and Josef Supersaxo , he set up the first mobile ski lift in the Saas-Fee region in the winter of 1948/49 . In 1953, Bergbahnen Saas Fee AG was founded from the company . In 1949 Zurbriggen also won the military ski patrol run of the Olympic revenge in Oslo in a team with Arnold Andenmatten, Karl Hischier and Karl Bricker .

From the end of 1949 he was used as an instruction officer (first lieutenant) for the mountain war in Kashmir . He died while exercising his profession as a mountain guide .

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  1. ↑ Thomas Lüthi: Olympia: Arnold Andenmatten died at 96 - view. September 12, 2018, accessed February 3, 2020 .
  2. ↑ The Saas Fee-Zermatt connection will be realized one day ( memento from September 27, 2012 in the Internet Archive ), interview with Hubert Bumann, Saas-Fee Skilift AG.
  3. ^ Touristic development of the glacier village: 8th ski ace in the mirror of the international sports press ( memento of July 6, 2011 in the Internet Archive ), Saas-Fee.
  4. ↑ writing A. Daeniker to A. Zehnder of 21 December 1949 in the database Dodis the Diplomatic Documents of Switzerland
  5. ↑ writing J. Humbert to A. Zehnder of 18 September 1951 in the database Dodis the Diplomatic Documents of Switzerland
  6. ↑ Freiburg and Valais People's Calendar 1953 (PDF; 18.7 MB)
personal data
SURNAME Zurbriggen, Robert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss officer and skier
DATE OF BIRTH March 16, 1917
PLACE OF BIRTH Saas-Fee
DATE OF DEATH April 21, 1952