Georg Bilgeri
Colonel Georg Bilgeri (born October 11, 1873 in Bregenz , † December 4, 1934 at Patscherkofel near Innsbruck ) was an Austrian officer and mountaineer and was one of the pioneers of alpine skiing .
Life
Until the end of the Danube Monarchy in 1918, Bilgeri was an alpine and ski instructor in Austria-Hungary. Army and then worked as a ski teacher in Austria, Sweden , Switzerland and Turkey . In 1892 he organized the first ski courses in Gargellen .
He combined the Lower Austrian and the "Norwegian" ski technique, which had been in opposition since around 1900 (see also Mathias Zdarsky , Kristianiatechnik and Telemarken ). Bilgeri contributed to the improvement of alpine and ski equipment and helped the stem arch and the "two-stick technique" to break through. Initially he used a removable stick, so he had two for the ascent and one for the descent.
A command building of the Austrian Armed Forces in Bregenz was named after Bilgeri ( command building Colonel Bilgeri ). In 1959, Georg-Bilgeri-Strasse in Vienna- Donaustadt (22nd district) was named after him.
The Bilgeri Glacier in Grahamland was also named after him.
Works (selection)
- Alpine skiing . Bergverlag Rother , Munich 1922.
literature
- Bilgeri, Georg. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 1, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1957, p. 84.
- Gudrun Kirnbauer u. a .: Ski pioneer Georg Bilgeri . Neugebauer Verlag, Graz 2001, ISBN 3-85376-066-X .
- Oskar Regele : Bilgeri, Georg. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 2, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1955, ISBN 3-428-00183-4 , p. 236 ( digitized version ).
Web links
- Personal folder on Georg Bilgeri (PDF) in the historical Alpine archive of the Alpine clubs in Germany, Austria and South Tyrol (temporarily offline)
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Bilgeri, Georg |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian officer and mountaineer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 11, 1873 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Bregenz |
| DATE OF DEATH | 4th December 1934 |
| Place of death | Patscherkofel , Innsbruck |