Hans Schwanda

Hans Schwanda (born August 3, 1904 in Vienna ; † June 25, 1983 ibid) was an Austrian alpinist and non-fiction author on mountain and ski tours.

Life

As the first Austrian after the end of the war in 1945, Hans Schwanda organized and led a high mountain expedition to the Caucasus , with which he also contributed to an east-west international understanding on a mountaineering level. For his achievements he received the Silver Merit of the Republic of Austria .

In 1949 he founded a specialty shop for traditional mountain sports (including ski touring ) and weatherproof clothing in the center of Vienna , in which he continued to work well into old age.

Schwanda wrote several books about mountain and ski tours, as well as many reports and stories about them.

Quotes

• "The greatest art in mountaineering is that you also get old."

Works

• The German mountain and ski song , Vienna 1935
• Ski-Heil! , Vienna 1950
• Skiing happiness from the Vienna Woods to the Dachstein , Vienna 1965
• Skiing luck in the Tauern , Salzburg 1967
• The cheerful climbing guild , Salzburg, Stuttgart, Zurich 1973
• Distant mountains, alluring destinations , Salzburg, Stuttgart, Zurich 1973
• He and she ski , Salzburg, Stuttgart, Zurich 1974
• The Gesäuse , Munich 1990

literature

• Christian Fastl: Schwanda, Johann. In: Oesterreichisches Musiklexikon . Online edition, Vienna 2002 ff., ISBN 3-7001-3077-5 ; Print edition: Volume 4, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 2005, ISBN 3-7001-3046-5 .

Web links

• History of the company foundation ( Memento from April 30, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
• Literature by and about Hans Schwanda in the catalog of the German National Library