Herbert Tichy

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Herbert Tichy (born June 1, 1912 in Vienna ; † September 26, 1987 ibid) was an Austrian travel writer , geologist , journalist and mountaineer . In addition to the travelogues translated into many languages, he also published non-fiction books and some adventure novels for young people. Together with the Tyrolean Sepp Jöchler and the Sherpa Pasang Dawa Lama, Herbert Tichy first managed to climb the 8,188- meter-high Cho Oyu , the sixth highest mountain on earth, on October 19, 1954 in a small expedition without additional oxygen .

Life

Herbert Tichy was born in 1912 into a middle-class family in Vienna, where he also went to school and studied geology after graduating from high school. Tichy became a member of the NSDAP in 1932 before the party was banned in Austria in 1933 . Due to his numerous trips abroad, Tichy continued to pay his membership fees despite the party's ban. In 1938 Tichy also submitted an application for admission to the Reichsschrifttumskammer , in which he referred, among other things, to his work in the German-Austrian daily newspaper .

In 1933 Tichy went on a trip to India on a Puch motorcycle with Max Reisch . As a result of a second trip to India in 1935, he circled the holy mountain Kailash in Tibet disguised as a pilgrim . During this trip he tried the first ascent of the Gurla Mandhata in alpine style with two companions , but had to turn back at about 7200 m. He published some of his travelogues as articles in magazines.

He also wrote for the bourgeois magazine Die Woche ; there his photo report appeared in 1935 : Achmed reads Goethe - German teachers in Afghanistan . In 1937 he wrote his dissertation on geology in India. After earning a PhD in Geology , Tichy toured Alaska in 1938 . Upon his return, Tichy first worked as a petroleum geologist, as his short-sightedness prevented him from serving as a war correspondent for the Air Force. During the same period, Tichy also appeared as an “important keynote speaker” for the Nazi organization Kraft durch Freude .

1941–1948, during the Second World War and afterwards, Tichy was initially in Siam and Indochina, but mostly in Japanese-occupied China, where he wrote almost seven hundred articles as a correspondent for German newspapers and magazines, including the Berliners for the Deutsche Allgemeine Zeitung Volks-Zeitung and the weekly Das Reich , whose leading article was regularly written by Joseph Goebbels . Other views on Tichy describe his attitude as "deeply averse to the values ​​of National Socialism" - Tichy had established himself in the German-speaking newspaper and publishing industry in order to be able to survive as an author and journalist. However, his real interest was in the simple life of Asian peoples and the freedom of independent travel.

In 1953 he made the first crossing of Western Nepal with three Sherpas.

On October 19, 1954, Herbert Tichy was the first to climb the 8188  m high Cho Oyu with the Tyrolean Sepp Jöchler and the Sherpa Pasang Dawa Lama . A few days before the summit, Tichy suffered severe frostbite on his hands, as a result of which he lost a finger. Fritz Moravec buried this finger north of the Kailash in 1987 .

In 1993 the Tichyweg in Vienna- Währing (18th district) was named after him.

Research trips

  • 1953 crossing of western Nepal
  • 1954 First ascent of Cho Oyu
  • 1957 Kenya
  • 1959 Hindu Kush Himalayas
  • 1961 Hong Kong / India
  • 1963 South and East Africa
  • 1968–69 East Asia
  • 1971–72 East Asia
  • 1980 Kenya - Lake Turkana (Rudolfsee)
  • 1981–82 and 1985 Nepal and India

Awards and honors

Works (selection)

Books for children and young readers
  • Escape through Hindustan. A story for the youth . Ueberreuter Verlag, Vienna 1953.
  • Three boys in the Himalayas (Fresh Saat; Vol. 34). St. Gabriel Verlag, Vienna 1954.
  • On the way . Verlag für Jugend & Volk, Vienna 1962.
  • No time for gods . Hoch-Verlag, Düsseldorf 1980, ISBN 3-7779-0318-3 (reprint of the Vienna edition 1967).
  • The forbidden valley. On the trail of a giant lizard in the jungle forests of Assam . Arena-Verlag, Würzburg 1974, ISBN 3-401-01228-2 .
Travel reports
  • To the holiest mountain in the world. On country roads and pilgrim paths in Afghanistan, India and Tibet . Edition Sunrise, Vienna 2007, ISBN 978-3-9501591-2-7 (extended new edition of the Vienna 1937 edition).
  • White clouds over yellow earth. My time in China in the forties Edition Sunrise, Vienna 2014, ISBN 978-3-9501591-5-8 (extended new edition of the Vienna 1948 edition).
  • On a hill of the Eternal City. Experienced Vatican . Ullstein, Vienna 1948.
  • The change of the lotus. An India report . Edition Sunrise, Vienna 2016, ISBN 978-3-9501591-6-5 (extended new edition of the Ullstein edition, Vienna 1951).
  • Land of nameless mountains. First crossing of Western Nepal . Edition Sunrise, Vienna 2009, ISBN 978-3-9501591-3-4 (extended new edition of the Vienna 1954 edition).
  • Cho Oyu. Grace of the gods . Anniversary edition 50 years of first ascent. Edition Sunrise, Vienna 2001, ISBN 3-9501591-1-8 (extended new edition of the Vienna 1955 edition).
  • Human paths, mountains of gods. Pictures of my travels . Wollzeilen-Verlag, Vienna 1960.
  • Hong Kong. The whim of the dragon . Wollzeilen-Verlag, Vienna 1961.
  • Hot earth, black hope. Africa from the Cape to the Equator . Österreichischer Bundesverlag, Vienna 1964.
  • Honey from the binunga tree. One year with primitive tribes . Ueberreuter Verlag, Vienna 1971, ISBN 3-8000-3118-3 .
  • Dew-dew. With gods and nomads of Lake Sulu . Molden, Vienna 1973, ISBN 3-217-00535-X .
  • On distant peaks. Adventure on top of the world . Molden, Vienna 1976, ISBN 3-217-00659-3 .
  • Dreamland Kenya . Pinguin-Verlag, Innsbruck 1978, ISBN 3-524-76008-2 (illustrated book).
Novels
  • The flood of a thousand harvests. Novel . Ullstein, Vienna 1956.
  • Safari on the Kamanga. A story from East Africa. Novel . Ueberreuter publishing house, Vienna 1958.
  • Major alarm. On the trail of the kidnappers . Engelbert-Verlag, Balve 1977, ISBN 3-536-01347-3 (former title: Two times hunted! The Mellebeck case ).
Non-fiction
  • Alaska. A paradise in the north . Goldmann, Munich 1951 (reprint of the Leipzig edition 1939).
  • Afghanistan, the gateway to India . Edition Sunrise, Vienna 2010, ISBN 978-3-9501591-4-1 (extended new edition of the Vienna 1940 edition).
  • India. Struggle and fate of a fifth of humanity . Goldmann, Leipzig 1942.
  • China without a wall . Seidel-Verlag, Vienna 1948.
  • Lake in the sun. In the footsteps of early humans . Edition Orac, Vienna 1980, ISBN 3-85368-871-3 .
  • In search of wisdom. What I learned from Asia . Lübbe-Verlag, Bergisch Gladbach 1989, ISBN 3-404-60239-7 (former title: What I learned from Asia ).

literature

  • Irene Hondt: Herbert Tichy - life and work . Dissertation, University of Vienna 2003.
  • Hilde and Willi Senft: Herbert Tichy. The adventurous life of the great Austrian. Weishaupt, Gnas 2003, ISBN 3-7059-0183-4 .
  • Ulrich Wörz among others: Herbert Tichy. Life as a journey. Encounters with the great adventurer, mountaineer and bon vivant . Tyrolia, Innsbruck 2012, ISBN 978-3-7022-3172-9 .

Individual evidence

  1. http://www.bergnews.com/service/cho-oyu-tichy/cho-oyu-tichy.php
  2. ^ Herbert Tichy in the Vienna History Wiki of the City of Vienna
  3. Hannes Stanik: The geopolitical view of the journalistic work of Herbert Tichy 1940-1944 . May 2009, p. 35 ff . ( online [PDF; accessed December 15, 2014] diploma thesis).
  4. a b Vienna's street names since 1860 as “Political Places of Remembrance” (PDF; 4.4 MB), p. 295ff, final research project report, Vienna, July 2013
  5. Die Woche magazine , issue 40/1935, pp. 20ff.
  6. Hannes Stanik: The geopolitical view of the journalistic work of Herbert Tichy 1940-1944 . May 2009, p. 11–12 ( online [PDF; accessed December 15, 2014] diploma thesis).
  7. ^ STANDARD Verlagsgesellschaft mbH: Too little interest in the "national community" . In: derStandard.at . ( derstandard.at [accessed on October 9, 2017]).
  8. Wiener Rathauskorrespondenz , December 13, 1954, sheet 2165
    Wiener Rathauskorrespondenz , January 15, 1955, sheet 56

Web links