Elisabeth Sophie Dabelstein

Elisabeth Sophie Dabelstein (born March 4, 1895 in Schleswig ; † October 26, 1976 in Bennekom ( Netherlands )) was a German alpinist , writer and director of a children's home in Oberstdorf ( Bavaria ).

Life

Elisabeth Sophie Dabelstein studied in Kiel and was a well-known mountaineer in the 1920s and 1930s, who climbed the west face of the Hohen Göll , the south face of the Untersberg and the Watzmann , among others . Her most frequent companion was the Berchtesgaden mountaineer and mountain guide Josef Aschauer (1902–1995). She wrote down her experiences as an alpinist in several articles and biographically colored stories.

During the time of National Socialist rule , Elisabeth Dabelstein headed the “Hohes Licht” children's home in Oberstdorf, Bavaria, which the Dutch writer Henriëtte de Beaufort (1890–1982) had donated from an inheritance (today “Klinik Hohes Licht”). From 1933 on, Jewish children were also taken in there, provided with false papers and brought to Switzerland and saved from persecution.

After the Second World War, Elisabeth Dabelstein moved to the Netherlands together with Henriëtte de Beaufort. Elisabeth Dabelstein died in Bennekom, the Netherlands, in 1976 and is buried there.

Services

Among other things, she climbed the Watzmann several times together with the Berchtesgaden mountain guide Josef Aschauer .

Works

• Walls and ridges. The Bergland Book Salzburg, Salzburg 1949.

literature

• Philipp Imm: Experience reports from mountaineers. (Inaugural dissertation to obtain a doctorate from the Philological Faculty of the Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg im Breisgau, winter semester 2008/2009)