Adolf Rubi

Adolf Rubi (born January 12, 1905 in Grindelwald , † April 23, 1988 in Unterseen ) was a Swiss mountain guide and Nordic and Alpine skier. He took part in the World Championships and the Olympic Winter Games in 1928 , was twice Swiss ski champion and made several first ascents in the Alps .

biography

In skiing, the then 21-year-old Rubi achieved his first major success at national level by winning 18 km cross-country skiing at the 20th Swiss Ski Race (Swiss Ski Championships) in Wengen in 1926 . In the fight for the championship title in cross-country skiing and jumping , he was only inferior to Sepp Schmid from Adelboden . In the same year he won in the alpine ski races in Adelboden the Golden Ski of Adelboden . From this time on, Rubi was also one of the most successful Swiss at the international level. At the Nordic World Ski Championships in Cortina d'Ampezzo in 1927, for example, he came fourth behind three Czechs in the Nordic Combined and at the Olympic Winter Games in St. Moritz in 1928, again as the best Swiss, he came eleventh in the Nordic Combined (he was twelfth in jumping and fourteenth in cross-country skiing).

Rubi celebrated his greatest successes at national level in 1928 and 1929, when he became Swiss ski champion in the combination of cross-country and jumping at the 22nd great Swiss ski race in Gstaad in 1928 and the 23rd great Swiss ski race in Arosa in 1929 . In July 1929 Rubi won the triple combination ( downhill , slalom , jumping) of the summer ski race on the Jungfraujoch . He repeated this success in 1933 and 1934.

At the Nordic World Ski Championships in Oslo in 1930 Rubi finished 28th in the Nordic Combined. At the 24th major Swiss ski race in Engelberg that same year he was third in cross-country skiing and in the senior I special jumping and fourth in the championship combination. Further placements among the top three at the Swiss championships did not materialize in the next few years, but in 1933 he reached third place with the Wengen relay at the 1st Swiss relay race in Grindelwald . Rubi had started for the ski club in his home town of Grindelwald until 1932, but then moved to Wengen and joined the local ski club in 1933.

In addition to his victories in the summer ski races on the Jungfraujoch in 1933 and 1934, Rubi celebrated a great success in his new home in Wengen in 1934 when he won the downhill, slalom and combined Lauberhorn races . Because of storm damage, the start of the descent from Lauberhorn to Girmschbiel had to be moved down. At the Swiss Ski Championships in Andermatt in the same year, he came fourth in the first-time combination of four (cross-country skiing, jumping, downhill and slalom). He also came fourth in the slalom of the Arlberg-Kandahar race in Mürren in 1935 , which was his best result in these races. Rubi, who also worked as a ski instructor, was active in competitive sports until the early 1940s. He won the 1937 and 1938 No-Fall Championships for the Sunday Times Cup in Wengen, won the Downhill and Slalom in age group I at the Swiss Championships in 1938, and came second in both disciplines at the 1940 Swiss Championships.

In addition to skiing, Rubi was a well-known mountain guide . He received his driver's license in 1926. From 1929 he repeatedly undertook tours with the American Miriam O'Brien (married Underhill), including the first descent over the southwest ridge of the Lauteraarhorn in September 1929 and the first ascent of the ridge Olmenhorn - Dreieckhorn on the Aletsch glacier as well the first ascent without a bivouac on the northeast face of the Finsteraarhorn in September 1930. On August 3, 1933, he opened a new path to the Jungfrau and three days later he succeeded in the first descent over the Wetterhorn west ridge, each time with David Lewers. On August 18, 1934, he made the first ascent of the Mönch north face between the Lauperrippe and the Nollenbollwerk with Peter Inäbnit and Magdalena Hutton, with the latter two years later also the first descent over the Younggrat on the Zermatt Breithorn . Together with Hans Schlunegger , on July 16, 1935, in 16 hours from the Mittellegihütte to Stechelberg , he undertook the first non- stop crossing of the three peaks of the Eiger , Mönch and Jungfrau . There are also countless other tours in Switzerland and neighboring countries, for example on Monte Rosa and Mont Blanc (over the Peuterey ridge in record time at the time), the Meije and the Barre des Écrins , in the Bergell Alps and the Dolomites . In July 1936, along with his brother Christian Rubi , who was also a skier and mountain guide, as well as Hans Schlunegger and Arnold Glatthard, he was part of the rescue team of mountaineers Toni Kurz , Andreas Hinterstoißer , Willy Angerer and Edi Rainer, who were killed on an attempt to climb the north face of the Eiger .

In 1949 Rubi took part in the Nepal - Himalaya expedition organized by the Swiss Foundation for Alpine Research (SSAF) . Rubi was scheduled to be the tour manager, but had to return early for health reasons. In 1959 he climbed Kilimanjaro together with Walter Schmid and in 1971 he took part in an expedition of the Academic Alpine Club Zurich to Elbrus .

Successes (skiing)

winter Olympics

• St. Moritz 1928 : 11th Nordic Combined

World championships

(the list may be incomplete)

• Cortina d'Ampezzo 1927 : 4th Nordic combined
• Oslo 1930 : 28th Nordic Combined

Swiss championships

• Swiss ski champion in 1928 and 1929

More Achievements

• Winning the Adelboden Golden Ski in 1926
• Victory in the triple combination of the summer ski race on the Jungfraujoch in 1929, 1933 and 1934
• Victory in downhill, slalom and combination of the Lauberhorn race in 1934

Web links

• Adolf Rubi in the database of the International Ski Association (English)
• Adolf Rubi in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d e f} Rudolf Rubi : From mountain farming village to tourist resort: hospitality, alpinism. (= In the valley of Grindelwald. Volume II). Verlag Sutter Druck, Grindelwald 1986, p. 206.
2. ↑ Grindelwald municipal administration, September 6, 2012
3. ^ ^{A b} Rudolf Rubi : The summer and winter health resort: roads and railways, winter sports. (= In the valley of Grindelwald. Volume III). Verlag Sutter Druck, Grindelwald 1987, p. 184.
4. ^ Paul Simon: The Swiss Ski Races 1905–1939. In: Yearbook of the Swiss Ski Association, Volume XXXV, 1939. P. 69.
5. ↑ Max Senger: How Switzerland became a ski country. MS Metz, Zurich 1941, p. 310.
6. ^ Paul Simon: The Swiss Ski Races 1905–1939. In: Yearbook of the Swiss Ski Association, Volume XXXV, 1939. pp. 70–71.
7. ↑ Fritz Erb : The 23rd major Swiss ski race in Arosa. In: The mountain hare. Yearbook of the Swiss Academic Ski Club. Volume 1, No. 3, 1929, pp. 215-231.
8. ^ Walter Amstutz : The 12th summer ski race on the Jungfraujoch. In: The mountain hare. Yearbook of the Swiss Academic Ski Club. Vol. 1, No. 3, 1929. pp. 242-244.
9. ^ Rudolf Rubi : The summer and winter health resort: roads and railways, winter sports. (= In the valley of Grindelwald. Volume III). Verlag Sutter Druck, Grindelwald 1987, p. 203.
10. ^ The international ski competitions in Oslo in 1930. In: Yearbook of the Swiss Ski Association. Volume 27, 1931. pp. 186–202.
11. ↑ Willy Bürgin: The 24th major Swiss ski race in Engelberg. In: The mountain hare. Yearbook of the Swiss Academic Ski Club. Volume 1, No. 4, 1930, pp. 347-357.
12. ↑ See the reports on the major ski races in Switzerland in the yearbooks of the Swiss Ski Association.
13. ↑ 50 km run and 1st relay run in Grindelwald. In: Yearbook of the Swiss Ski Association. 29th year, 1933. pp. 169–171.
14. ^ ^{A b} Rudolf Rubi : The summer and winter health resort: roads and railways, winter sports. (= In the valley of Grindelwald. Volume III). Verlag Sutter Druck, Grindelwald 1987, p. 198.
15. ↑ See also the result lists in the yearbooks of the Swiss Ski Association.
16. ↑ Martin Born: Lauberhorn - the story of a myth. AS Verlag, Zurich 2004, ISBN 3-909111-08-4 , pp. 37 and 234.
17. ↑ 28. Big Switzerland. Ski races in Andermatt. In: Yearbook of the Swiss Ski Association. Volume 30, 1934. pp. 170-181.
18. ^ Hermann Nussbaumer: Victory on white slopes. Balance of alpine skiing. 9th expanded edition, Trauner Verlag, Linz 1977, ISBN 3-85320-176-8 , leaflet 3 (without page number).
19. ↑ Results of the Arlberg-Kandahar races from 1928 to 1955. ( Memento of the original from October 29, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF file, 23 kB) 
20. ↑ Max Senger: How Switzerland became a ski country. MS Metz, Zurich 1941, p. 200.
21. ↑ Downhill Only. The Annual Journal of the Downhill Only Club. Vol. 1, No. 2, October 1937, pp. 10 and 22.
22. ↑ Downhill Only. The Annual Journal of the Downhill Only Club. Vol. 1, No. 3, October 1938, p. 9.
23. ↑ 32nd Swiss ski race in Wengen. In: Yearbook of the Swiss Ski Association. Volume XXXIV, 1938. pp. 105-110.
24. ↑ 34th Swiss ski race in Gstaad. In: Yearbook of the Swiss Ski Association. Volume XXXVI, 1940. pp. 101-119.
25. ^ Nea Morin: In Memoriam Miriam Underhill (1899-1976). In: The Alpine Journal 1977. pp. 272-273.
26. ^ Rudolf Rubi : From mountain farming village to tourist resort: hospitality, alpinism. (= In the valley of Grindelwald. Volume II). Verlag Sutter Druck, Grindelwald 1986, p. 160.
27. ^ Rudolf Rubi : From mountain farming village to tourist resort: hospitality, alpinism. (= In the valley of Grindelwald. Volume II). Verlag Sutter Druck, Grindelwald 1986, p. 170.
28. ^ Rudolf Rubi : From mountain farming village to tourist resort: hospitality, alpinism. (= In the valley of Grindelwald. Volume II). Verlag Sutter Druck, Grindelwald 1986, p. 175.
29. ^ Rudolf Rubi : From mountain farming village to tourist resort: hospitality, alpinism. (= In the valley of Grindelwald. Volume II). Verlag Sutter Druck, Grindelwald 1986, pp. 172-173 and 254.
30. ↑ ^{a b} Rudolf Rubi : From mountain farming village to tourist resort: hospitality, alpinism. (= In the valley of Grindelwald. Volume II). Verlag Sutter Druck, Grindelwald 1986, p. 218.
31. ↑ Expeditions with the support of SFAR. Swiss Nepal-Himalaya Expedition 1949: Sutter-Lohner. Extract from: Swiss Foundation for Alpine Research 1939 to 1970. Zurich 1972. SSAF website, accessed on May 8, 2012.