Christian Rubi

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Christian Rubi (born February 14, 1897 in Grindelwald ; † October 17, 1985 in Interlaken ) was a Swiss mountain guide , ski racer , ski instructor and politician .

biography

Rubi attended teacher training in Hofwil , was initially a primary school teacher in Fuhren in the community of Gadmen and from 1923 to 1939 a primary school teacher in Wengen . He completed his mountain guide training, joined the Wengen ski club and began intensive downhill and slalom training at the end of the 1920s, when he was already over 30, together with Ernst Gertsch , the "father of the Lauberhorn race " . In 1929 he was the founder and later head of the Wengen Ski School. At the first Lauberhorn race in 1930, he won the downhill ahead of the favored Englishmen. He finished seventh in slalom and fourth in combination. At the FIS races in Mürren in 1931 , later chosen for the first Alpine World Ski Championships, he finished 13th in the “long descent”, which is not part of the official championship program. As a mountain guide, Rubi undertook first ascents in the Bernese and Valais Alps . In 1936, along with his brother Adolf 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 .

The victory on the Lauberhorn was Rubi's greatest success as an active ski racer, and as a result he made a name for himself as a ski instructor. In 1934 he co-founded the Swiss Ski School Association (SSSV) and was its technical director until 1965, for over two and a half decades. His pocket book “Der Leicht Skilauf”, published in 1937, was for a long time the standard textbook for skiing in Switzerland.

In addition, Rubi was also a committed politician. He belonged to the Social Democratic Party of Switzerland , was a local councilor in Lauterbrunnen from 1933 to 1940 , a member of the Grand Council of the Canton of Bern from 1938 to 1953 and a member of the National Council from 1954 to 1958 . In addition, he was President of the Federal Commission for Mountain Railways from 1947 to 1965 and President of the Lauterbrunnen electricity company from 1948 to 1960 and from 1966 to 1975 . His son Fred Rubi also became a well-known ski racer and politician.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Christoph Zürcher: Christian Rubi. In: Historisches Lexikon der Schweiz ., Accessed on May 8, 2012.
  2. ↑ Martin Born: Lauberhorn - the story of a myth. AS Verlag, Zurich 2004, ISBN 3-909111-08-4 , pp. 23 and 36.
  3. ↑ Othmar Gurtner : 1. University ski competitions Germany-Switzerland. In: The mountain hare. Yearbook of the Swiss Academic Ski Club. Vol. 1, No. 4, 1930. pp. 341-346.
  4. ↑ http://www.alpineskiing-worldchampionships.com/31ldhm.html straight-dead link | date = 2018-04 | archivebot = 2018-04-04 06:30:32 InternetArchiveBot | url = http: //www.alpineskiing -worldchampionships.com/31ldhm.html}}, accessed on November 10, 2010 (web link no longer available).
  5. ^ 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.
  6. ^ 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.
  7. ↑ cf. SSV-Jahrbuch 1939, p. 49; SSV-Jahrbuch 1942, pp. 7 and 35; SAS yearbook 1954/1955, p. 29.
  8. ↑ Daniel Anker : Ski book slalom - Mountain hares, ski men and their books. In: The mountain hare. 37th yearbook of the Swiss Academic Ski Club SAS 2002–2007. P. 166.
personal data
SURNAME Rubi, Christian
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss mountain guides, ski racers, ski instructors and politicians
DATE OF BIRTH February 14, 1897
PLACE OF BIRTH Grindelwald , Switzerland
DATE OF DEATH 17th October 1985
Place of death Interlaken , Switzerland