Ernst Standhardt

Ernst Standhardt (born August 25, 1888 in Haina near Gotha ; † August 25, 1967 at the Estancia Fitz Roy , Argentina ) was a German mountaineer and landscape photographer , after whom the 2739 m high Cerro Standhardt , which belongs to the Argentine Andes , was named.

Standhardt was born as the son of the miller Johann Theodor Wilhelm Standhardt in the Hainaer Burgmühle on the Nesse, which now houses a cheese dairy. The death of the father in 1901 meant that the mill was sold in 1902 and the family moved to Gotha. After an apprenticeship in saddlery , he completed his military service with the Imperial Navy in the German Kiautschou protected area in China from 1908 to 1911 . Around 1912 he emigrated to Argentina . There he became known as one of the first landscape photographers and mountain guides . His grave is on the Estancia Fitz Roy, where he spent his old age. Today the farm is located in the Los Glaciares National Park and is no longer cultivated.

His biography and extensive photographic work are essential parts of the book Standhardt - Fotógrafo itinerante , published in Argentina in 2011 .

In honor of Standhardt, a memorial plaque was unveiled on August 25, 2013 at the house where he was born in Haina.

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• Jüllich, Günther; Hamma, Theo: Ernst Standhardt: Pioneer Photographer in Patagonia, In: ANDINA 1994–1999. Anniversary edition on the occasion of the 90 years of the German Excursion Association Valparaiso, 75 years of the German Andean Association Santiago and 7 years of the German Andean Association Osorno
• “Standhardt Fotógrafo itinerante” Compilación fotográfica de Patricia Halvorsen y Luis Ibarra Philemon., Buenos Aires 2011
• Allgemeine Anzeiger Gotha, edition of August 21, 2013, p. 5