Hanns Schell

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Hanns Schell (born June 3, 1938 in Graz , Hanns Schell III. ) Is an Austrian mountaineer , art collector and industrialist .

Life

In 1965 Hanns Schell joined the Odörfer company . His father Hanns Schell II was one of three shareholders at the time . In 1969 Hanns Schell's father died and at the age of only 31 he took over his father's share. He expanded the company further and in 1994 took over the iron goods division (Odörfer Eisenhof) as sole owner, after the Odörfer company had separated into the iron goods and plumbing divisions in 1965. Today his son Christof Schell runs the company.

Hanns Schell has been married to Liselotte Schell for over 40 years. They have six children together and are grandparents fourteen times.

Achievement as a mountaineer

Schell is an enthusiastic mountaineer who, by his own admission, has "safely climbed 5000 mountains ". His mountain-loving parents introduced Schell to mountaineering as a child. At the age of 20 he climbed over the Biancograt the Piz Bernina , its first four-thousand . In the years that followed, many more climbs followed in the Alps , but always with one goal in mind, one day to go to the Karakoram or the Himalayas . In 1964 the time had come when Schell visited the Karakoram for the first time. There he made some first ascents in the course of this and the following expeditions :

In addition, he tried thirteen times on eleven different eight-thousanders . He had summit success on

Nanga Parbat: Rupal flank from the southwest
  • Gasherbrum I on August 11, 1975. Schell climbed the mountain together with Robert Schauer and Herbert Zefferer via the route of the first ascent: via the IHE spur and the southeast ridge.
  • Nanga Parbat on August 11, 1976. Schell reached the summit together with Siegfried Gimpel , Robert Schauer, Hilmar Sturm via a new route ( Schell route ) on the SSW ridge on the western (left) edge of the Rupal wall . Reinhold Messner commented on Schell's route as follows: “ The new route on Nanga Parbat is Schell's masterpiece. He has achieved great successes in the Karakoram, Alaska and the Himalayas, on the> Nanga Parbat <he dared a line with a grandiose team in a modern style and presented a strategy that deserves all respect "
  • Gasherbrum II on August 4, 1979. Schell reached the summit together with Kurt Diemberger , Fayyaz Hussain (Pakistan, escort officer of the expedition), Walter Lösch and two mountaineers of an expedition of the Alpine Gilde D'Schermbergler via the route of the first climbers: Südwestgrat, Fuß der Southwest face and east ridge.
  • Shisha Pangma on May 19, 1985. Schell reached the summit together with L. Karner and Thomas Schilcher on the route of the first climbers: Sisha Pangma Glacier , the East Gwm, the North Ridge and the Northeast Face Traverse

But Schell also traveled to other continents and climbed their mountains. In South America he managed the Aconcagua ( 6961  m ), in North America Mount McKinley ( 6190  m ) and Mount Logan ( 5959  m ).

Achievement as a collector

Hanns Schell has been collecting keys , locks , cassettes and cast iron since a trip through Iran and Pakistan in 1965 . The initial for this passion for collecting, which led to the world's largest special collection, was the acquisition of small padlocks in the bazaars of Tehran and Isfahan . In order to make the extensive collection accessible to the public, Hanns Schell founded the Museum Hanns Schell Collection , which he still runs today. The museum presents more than 13,000 exhibits on 2500  m² .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Thomas Mitterer: Hanns Schell. Retrieved on May 28, 2012 (Thomas Mitterer's homepage).
  2. ↑ Horst Herzl: Odörfer Eisenhof magazine - tradition and consistency. (PDF; 658 kB) Retrieved on May 28, 2012 (company history for the 200th anniversary).
  3. ↑ Video interview with Hanns Schell. Retrieved on May 28, 2012 (video interview by Babara Schön at Kleine Zeitung).
  4. ↑ a b c d Hanns Schell: My key to the mountains of the world. (PDF; 746 kB) (No longer available online.) Formerly in the original ; Retrieved June 1, 2012 .  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.kulturbund-stmk.at  
  5. ↑ Eric Goodwin: Climbs And Expeditions - Momhil Sar. (PDF) In: American Alpine Journal 1965. American Alpine Club , p. 475 f. , accessed on June 7, 2012 .
  6. ^ Adolf Diemberger: Climbs And Expeditions - Akher Chioh and Kotgaz Zom. (PDF) In: American Alpine Journal 1967. American Alpine Club, p. 413 f. , accessed on June 7, 2012 .
  7. ↑ Rudolph Pischinger: Climbs And Expeditions - Diran. (PDF) In: American Alpine Journal 1969. American Alpine Club, pp. 454 f. , accessed on June 7, 2012 .
  8. ↑ Hanns Schell: Climbs And Expeditions - Urdok I and Hidden Peak. (PDF) In: American Alpine Journal 1976. American Alpine Club, p. 542 , accessed on June 7, 2012 (English).
  9. ↑ a b c d Richard Sale, John Cleare: On Top of the World, The 14 eight-thousanders: From the first ascent until today . 1st edition. BLV Verlagsgesellschaft, Munich 2001, ISBN 3-405-16039-1 , p. 212 ff .
  10. ↑ Reinhold Messner: Diamir, King of the Mountains . 1st edition. Frederking and Thaler Verlag, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-89405-708-4 , pp. 188 .
  11. ↑ Wolf Weizenböck: Jubilee expedition 1979 to Gasherbrum II (8,035 m) in the Karakoram, Himalaya. Retrieved June 2, 2012 .
  12. ^ Team Schell Collection. Retrieved on June 3, 2012 (special museum for locks, keys, boxes, cassettes and iron art castings).
  13. ↑ Hanns Schell Collection. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on May 12, 2012 ; accessed on June 3, 2012 (Homepage of the Province of Styria, Kultur Steiermark). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.kultur.steiermark.at
personal data
SURNAME Schell, Hanns
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian mountaineer
DATE OF BIRTH June 3, 1938
PLACE OF BIRTH Graz