Hermann Huber (mountaineer)
Hermann Huber (born September 20, 1930 in Munich ) is a German mountaineer and entrepreneur ( SALEWA ). He developed innovative equipment for mountain sports. His Guide to Mountaineering Today has been reprinted five times and has also appeared in several translations.
Life
Hermann Huber is one of four sons of Max Huber, who was himself an enthusiastic mountaineer. He himself began mountaineering as a teenager and fell for the first time at the age of 13 on a solo climbing tour on the Hochstaufen . Since there were still no schools in Munich's grammar schools in the first post-war period , his father sent him to an apprenticeship as an industrial clerk at SALEWA on October 1, 1945 at Thalkirchner Strasse 47 in Munich . At that time SALEWA was still primarily a saddlery and leather goods company.
Active mountain sports
He started climbing around 1947 . Huber soon booked the most difficult climbing tours, initially in the northern Limestone Alps, e.g. B. all Laliderer classics, and in the early 1950s in Italy and France . In 1954 he managed the first ascent of the 800 meter high goal wall / north face of the Kuhkopf in the Karwendel. In addition, there have been numerous climbing tours and expeditions around the world since 1955. He was one of the first extreme climbers in Munich and is still active today.
Huber and Pit Schubert (head of the safety group in the DAV) advised each other comprehensively and over many years on equipment and safety.
Business activity
In his teaching company, Huber rose over the years to managing director and played a key role in the company's transformation into a mountain sports equipment supplier. Among other things, he incorporated personal experiences from mountain sports as an equipment (co) developer. Some of his inventions changed mountain sports significantly.
The rucksack for his first ascent and ascents of the Cordillera Blanca and the Cordillera Raura , which he designed himself in 1955 and manufactured in the company's own rucksack sewing shop , was included in SALEWA's range for ten years in a modified form as the "Andes" model and became a bestseller . In 1956 he became sales manager in the company and from 1960 worked as an authorized signatory . His punched instead of hand- forged “universal crampons ”, developed in 1962, sold 350,000 times. In 1964 he developed the first tube ice screw . It has sold 100,000 times. Be "are worth mentioning Hiebeler -Halbtonnen" -Biwak Tent (1969) developed hollow fiberglass rod and its mid-1970s carabiner . From 1972 until his gradual retirement from 1988 onwards, he led the company as managing director and also made a significant contribution to the company's profile as technical director.
DAV activity
Huber was a founding member of the safety group of the German Alpine Club (DAV), which was founded in 1968 after an accident on the north face of the Hochferner , in which two experienced mountaineers were fatally injured.
Author activity
- Mountaineering today. A practical Guide. Verlag Friedrich Bruckmann , Frankfurt am Main 1967.
The book was reprinted five times in a revised and expanded version by Bruckmann Verlag in Munich from 1971 to 1981 . It was published in Russian ( Alpinizm segodnja ; Russian Альпинизм сегодня ) (1980) by the Moscow publisher Fizkultura i Sport (Физкультура и спорт), in two Japanese editions ( Japanese 現代 登山 技術 ) (1977 and 山. Publishers-Yama- 1983) と 溪谷 社) and in Spanish translation ( El alpinismo, hoy ) by the Catalan publisher Editorial Planeta (1983). The book was among other things 1973 in the library trade journal. Book and library discussed.
For a number of years, Huber has privately published his diary “Paths and companions” on his website .
Private
Hermann Huber has been married since 1956 and has two sons.
Awards
In 2006 Huber was awarded the “Mountain Spirit of the Year” by the Munich Alpine Club Section Alpenklub Berggeist (AKB), which Hermann Magerer received for the first time last year .
literature
- Rudi Berger: Hermann Huber. Between rock and the company. In: The mountaineer portrait ; Der Bergsteiger , No. 4, 1974, p. 229. ( PDF )
- Andi Dick: Curious for a lifetime. In: German Alpine Club : DAV Panorama - messages from the German Alpine Club. 4/2015, p. 94 ff. ( PDF )
Web links
- Personal website
- Hermann Huber in the Historical Alpine Archives of the Alpine Clubs in Germany, Austria and South Tyrol (temporarily offline)
- Personal folder on Hermann Huber (PDF) in the historical Alpine archive of the Alpine clubs in Germany, Austria and South Tyrol (temporarily offline)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d e A. Dick; see references.
- ^ Berufsleben , Hermann Huber's website, accessed on November 20, 2015.
- ↑ a b Pioneer in focus: mountain sports legend Hermann Huber. On: Sportalpen.com, 2014.
- ↑ Huber, Hermann ( 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. , AlpinWiki.at; accessed on November 19, 2015.
- ↑ Hermann Huber. Uli Auffermann on the memorial website for Anderl Heckmair : Congratulations, Hermann Huber! ( Memento of the original from November 18, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) 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. , 2013.
- ↑ Hermann Huber. In: Klara Esters: Up! Mountains, enthusiasm and the German Alpine Club 1945 to 2007. Book accompanying the exhibition in the Alpine Museum of the German Alpine Club: Munich, July 19, 2007 to March 23, 2008. German Alpine Club (publisher), 2007.
- ↑ Videos: Hermann Huber climbs in Buchenhain (video), DAV, 2015.
- ↑ Thanks. Hermann Huber. In: Pit Schubert: Safety and risk in rock and ice: Everything is possible, but really everything. Bergverlag Rother , 2013, p. 222.
- ↑ Development into a mountain sports brand - from backpack to ice screw. In: Made in Germany - SALEWA: Mountain sports in Munich-style - the story of a traditional alpine brand. Airfreshing.com , June 1, 2015.
- ↑ Hermann Huber: A life for mountaineering. Alpin , September 13, 2013.
- ↑ https://www.alpenverein.de/chameleon/public/10732/panorama_01012_portr_10732.pdf
- ↑ Mountaineering Today: A Guide for Practice / Hermann Huber. [Sign. by Rudi Berger] in the German National Library
- ↑ Mountaineering Today: A Guide to Practice. / Hermann Huber (1971) in the German National Library
- ↑ Mountaineering today: d. Guide to d. Practice / Hermann Huber Mountaineering Today: A Guide for Practice. / Hermann Huber (1981)
- ↑ Alpinizm segodnja in the German National Library
- ^ El alpinismo, hoy: técnica y práctica de la escalada / Hermann Huber in the German National Library
- ^ Mountain books / mountaineering literature of recent years. In: Book and Library , Vol. 25, Ed. 2, KG Saur , 1973, p. 446. ( limited preview in Google book search)
- ^ Vita , website of Hermann Huber, accessed on November 19, 2015.
- ↑ Hermann Huber is the second "Mountain Spirit of the Year" , climbing.de, April 17, 2006.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Huber, Hermann |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German mountaineer and entrepreneur |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 20, 1930 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Munich |