Fritz Benesch (alpinist)

Memorial plaque for Fritz Benesch near the Otto-Schutzhaus

Fritz Benesch , actually Friedrich Benesch (born April 12, 1864 in Misslitz , Moravia , † June 29, 1949 in Vienna ) was an Austrian alpinist , photographer and non-fiction author.

Life

Fritz Benesch, who has a doctorate in law , has published numerous books on the Austrian Alps . With the Benesch scale ( "Comparative ranking of the climbs according to their difficulty" ), he introduced the first difficulty scale for climbing in 1894 .

He was one of the pioneers of landscape photography in tourism advertising , Friederike Kaiser describes him as the “court photographer of the German and Austrian Alpine Association”.

A plaque commemorates Fritz Benesch near the Otto-Schutzhaus on the Rax .

Works

Essays

• The Raxalpe and the Wiener Schneeberg. In:  Journal of the German Alpine Association / Journal of the German and (the) Austrian Alpine Association , year 1898, (Volume XXIX), pp. 197–228. (Online at ANNO ).
• About a new method of cartographic representation. In: Communications of the German and Austrian Alpine Club , born in 1898, (Volume XXIV), p. 239 f. (Online at ALO )
• Nine days in the Rieserferner mountains. In:  Journal of the German Alpine Association / Journal of the German and (the) Austrian Alpine Association , year 1900, (Volume XXXI), pp. 261–279. (Online at ANNO ).
• From the Dead Mountains. In:  Journal of the German Alpine Association / Journal of the German and (the) Austrian Alpine Association , year 1912, (Volume XLIII), pp. 184–198. (Online at ANNO ).
• Old and new about the Hochschwab. In:  Journal of the German Alpine Association / Journal of the German and (the) Austrian Alpine Association , year 1915, (Volume XLVI), pp. 201–222. (Online at ANNO ).
• The Gesäuse and its mountains. In:  Journal of the German Alpine Association / Journal of the German and (the) Austrian Alpine Association , year 1916, (Volume XLVII), pp. 160–182. (Online at ANNO ).
• War summer days in the Hochkönig area. In:  Journal of the German Alpine Association / Journal of the German and (the) Austrian Alpine Association , year 1917, (Volume XLVIII), pp. 102–124. (Online at ANNO ).
• Mons Styriae altissimus. In:  Journal of the German Alpine Association / Journal of the German and (the) Austrian Alpine Association , year 1918, (Volume XLIX), pp. 125–148. (Online at ANNO ).
• The Schneealpe, 1904 m. In:  Journal of the German Alpine Association / Journal of the German and (the) Austrian Alpine Association , year 1929, (Volume LX), pp. 213–240. (Online at ANNO ).
• The Ötscher. In:  Journal of the German Alpine Association / Journal of the German and (the) Austrian Alpine Association , year 1932, (Volume LXIII), pp. 221–241. (Online at ANNO ). .
• (100th birthday of Julius Payer :) The Lord of Eternal Ice. Between rock and crevasses. In:  Neues Wiener Tagblatt (weekly edition) , No. 41/1941 (XIXth year), October 10, 1941, p. 1 f. (Online at ANNO ).
  • The fall from the firn ridge of Piz Tresero. The Lord of Eternal Ice II. In:  Neues Wiener Tagblatt (weekly edition) , No. 42/1941 (XIXth year), October 17, 1941, p. 7 f. (Online at ANNO ).
  • The dead land. The Lord of Eternal Ice III. In:  Neues Wiener Tagblatt (weekly edition) , No. 43/1941 (XIXth year), October 24, 1941, p. 5 f. (Online at ANNO ).
  • Caught in the polar night. The Lord of Eternal Ice IV. In:  Neues Wiener Tagblatt (weekly edition) , No. 44/1941 (XIXth year), October 31, 1941, p. 7 f. (Online at ANNO ).
  • Marathon run at 25 degrees. The Lord of Eternal Ice V. In:  Neues Wiener Tagblatt (weekly edition) , No. 45/1941 (XIXth year), November 7, 1941, p. 3 f. (Online at ANNO ).
  • Last hope - march to the polar sea. The Lord of Eternal Ice (conclusion). In:  Neues Wiener Tagblatt (weekly edition) , No. 46/1941 (XIXth year), November 14, 1941, p. 7 f. (Online at ANNO ).

Books

• Special guide to the Raxalpe , 1894 
• Special guide to the Schneeberg , 1897 
• Ascent in the Val Gardena Dolomites , 1899 
• Traffic book of Austrian railways . (8 volumes). Reisser, Vienna 1910, OBV .
  • -. Volume 4: South Tyrol and the Dolomites. . (Online at ALO ).
  • -. Volume 5: Carinthia and Styria , OBV .
  • -. Volume 6: Carniola and Coastal Land.  - Full text online (PDF) .
• Theodor Christomannos , -: The new Dolomite Road. Bozen - Cortina - Toblach and its branch lines , 1913
• The Semmering and its mountains. An album of the Semmering landscape from Gloggnitz to Mürzzuschlag. Accompanying word by Paul Busson , 1913
• Guide to the Schneeberg - with full autotype images based on photographs , 4th edition, 1920
• How to become a mountaineer , 1924
• Guide to the Schneealpe , 1925
• Theodor Christomannos, -: The Dolomites , 3rd edition, 1925 
• The climatic mountain health resort and winter sports area Semmering. 2 hours from Vienna at 1000 meters above sea level , 1928
• The travel destination Carinthia, Austria , 1929
• Magic of the mountain home. An alpine picture book for mountaineers and photographers , 1935 
• The Oetscherland , 1942
• Powers of the mountains. Hazards and natural disasters in the high mountains , 1943
• -, Josef Pruscha: Guide to the Raxalpe , 9th, significantly increased and revised edition, 1949

cards

• Gustav Freytag, -: Map of the Schneeberg - from Artaria's special tourist map , 1908
• Tirol Ortler Lake Garda. KK priv. Austrian Southern Railway KK Österr. State Railways , 1908
• Gustav Freytag, -: Map of the Schneeberg - from Artaria's special tourist map , 1912

Photographs

• The travel destination Austria . In: Eduard Stepan: New Austria - the work of the peace of St. Germain, its culture, natural resources, economic life and landscapes . van Looy, Amsterdam / Vienna 1923, OBV , p. 77.
• Augusto Golin, Friederike Kaiser: Mountains in the Box. Photographs from the collection of the German Alpine Club, 1870–1914. Book accompanying the exhibition in the Alpine Museum of the German Alpine Club, Munich, May 11, 2006 to March 18, 2007 . German Alpine Association, Munich 2006, ISBN 3-937530-13-4 .

literature

• Jakob Baxa :  Benesch, Fritz. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 2, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1955, ISBN 3-428-00183-4 , p. 45 f. ( Digitized version ).

Web links

• Literature by and about Fritz Benesch in the catalog of the German National Library
• Works by and about Fritz Benesch  in the German Digital Library
• Personal folder on Fritz Benesch (I) (PDF) in the historical Alpine archive of the Alpine clubs in Germany, Austria and South Tyrol (temporarily offline)
• Personal folder on Fritz Benesch (II) (PDF) in the historical Alpine archive of the Alpine clubs in Germany, Austria and South Tyrol (temporarily offline)

Sources, individual references

1. ↑ Peter Grupp: Fascination Mountain - the history of alpinism . Böhlau, Cologne / Weimar / Vienna 2008, ISBN 3-412-20086-7 , p. 139.
2. ^ Friederike Kaiser: Fritz Benesch. The "court photographer" of the German and Austrian Alpine Club. In: Golin: Mountains in the Box .

Remarks

1. ↑ Literature. (...) F. Benesch: Special guide to the Raxalpe. (Book review). In: Communications of the German and Austrian Alpine Club , year 1894, (Volume XX), p. 138 f. (Online at ALO ).
2. ↑ Literature. Fritz Benesch: Special guide to the Schneeberg. (Book review). In: Communications of the German and Austrian Alpine Club , year 1897, (Volume XXIII), p. 249. (Online at ALO ).
3. ↑ A (lois) Pfreimbtner: Literature and cartography. (...) Fritz Benesch: Mountain trips in the Val Gardena Dolomites. (Book review). In: Communications of the German and Austrian Alpine Club , year 1899, (Volume XXV), p. 262 f. (Online at ALO ).
4. ↑ Christomannos-Benesch, The Dolomites. (Book review). In: Mitteilungen des Deutschen und Österreichischer Alpenverein , born in 1925, (Volume LI), p. 299. (Online at ALO ).
5. ↑ Dr. Fritz Benesch, magic of the mountain home. (Book review). In: Mitteilungen des Deutschen und Österreichischer Alpenverein , born in 1935, (Volume LXI), p. 105. (Online at ALO ).