Herbert Richter (climber)

Herbert Richter , nicknamed "Fly", (born January 29, 1935 in Meißen ) is a German climber and mountaineer. In his prime he was one of the best climbers in the world and one of the most famous first climbers in Saxon Switzerland .

Life

Herbert Richter attended school in his hometown Meißen, which he graduated from high school in 1953. After working for the SDAG Wismut as a shaft carpenter for a short time , he began studying geophysics at the Bergakademie Freiberg . After successfully completing his studies, he worked in raw materials exploration from 1959 to 1961, from 1961 to 1964 as a technical college lecturer for mathematics in Dresden and then until 1967 at the nuclear research institute in Dresden . Herbert Richter worked as a programmer in various companies for the rest of his career until 1996. He has been a pensioner since 1996.

Herbert Richter has been married to Karin Richter since 1963. He has two sons with her.

Sports

Shortly after the Second World War , he began climbing on the Pechstein cliffs in the Triebischtal on the outskirts of Meißen. His first climbing peak in the Saxon Switzerland was in the summer of 1950 the Daxenstein in Bielatal . Herbert Richter was the first to climb numerous routes in Saxon Switzerland and in the Czech climbing area Adersbach-Weckelsdorfer Felsenstadt . Even as an alpinist, he can manage the most difficult routes in the Alps and in the High Tatras . Herbert Richter was a member of the GDR's national alpine team in the 1960s and, as such, practically a professional athlete. Its nominally hardest first ascent was the left path on the Großer Halben near Hohnstein in the Saxon degree of difficulty IXa . At the age of 62, he still managed to climb an 800-meter wall in Norwegian granite for the first time.

Well-known first ascents

Saxon Switzerland

• Direct autumn path at the northern Pfaffenschluchtspitze (VIIIc)
• Bat path on the summer wall (VIIIc)
• North face on Bloßstock (VIIIa), later freely climbed by him (IXa)
• West edge at the cross tower (VIIIc)
• Rübezahlstiege on Frienstein (VIIIc)
• Robert's rib on the flax heads (VIIIc)
• Black edge on the king's point (VIIIa)

Bohemia

• Slunovrat at the mayor in Adersbach (VIIIa)
• Flyway on the cathedral walls in Wekelsdorf (VIIIa)
• Cañon at the bottle in Wekelsdorf (VIIIc)

all difficulties in the Saxon scale

Elsewhere

• East face at Litleidtinden in Norway (V, UIAA scale) (800–900 meters)
• High wall at the Kalambaka Tower in Meteora (VI +, UIAA scale), Greece
• Visit from Saxony (VI +, UIAA scale), Kleines Häuselhorn, Nordspornsockel, Reiteralpe

literature

• Der Bergsteiger 1983, No. 3, pages 69-70

Web links

• Herbert Richter at www.bergsteigerbund.de
• Bulletin of the Saxon Mountaineering Association (PDF; 3.8 MB)