Johann Hufnagel
Johann Hufnagel (born November 14, 1909 in Transylvania , Austria-Hungary ; † February 1, 1991 in Mannheim-Suebenheim , Germany) was a long-distance hiker and the first to climb numerous European long-distance hiking trails .
Life
The “king of long-distance hikers”, as his friends and fans called him, grew up in Transylvania on the Danube Bend and learned the carpentry trade. With his wife Hildegard Hufnagel, b. Petermann, he had five children and 11 grandchildren. After his retirement in 1970 he began long-distance hiking - mostly with her, sometimes alone.
Hufnagel covered around 45,000 kilometers across Europe on foot between 1971 and 1989, documented in several tour books, interviews and numerous letters that are now kept in the Eibiswald Long Distance Hiking Museum in southern Styria . With that, the passionate long-distance hiker has marched around the globe. For his services, Hufnagel received the Johann Gottfried Seume Medal for long-distance and long-distance hikers and recognition from the long-distance hikers section of the Austrian Alpine Club .
Hufnagel also promoted long-distance hiking among young people and asked them to leave their car behind and explore nature and the environment away from the tourist crowds. He himself was the first to go full length on some of the great European long-distance hiking routes. Several newspapers and radio stations reported on his walking trips. He had a deep friendship with the Austrian sculptor and co-founder of the long-distance hiking movement, Carl Hermann . Hufnagel spent his twilight years in Mannheim and Berg im Drautal , where he built a holiday home.
He died on February 1, 1991 at the age of 81 in Mannheim-Suebenheim. Hufnagel gave his legendary hiking equipment and many documents from his travels to the Eibiswald Long Distance Hiking Museum during his lifetime . His second home, Berg im Drautal, dedicated a hiking trail to him. The last resting place of the exceptional hiker is in the Mannheim-Seckenheim cemetery.
literature
- Hartwig Trinkhaus: once marched around the globe. Long-distance hiker Johann Hufnagel (81) looks back on 45,000 kilometers. in: Mannheimer Morgen Wochenschau Rhein-Neckar. JG. 1990.
Web links
- The king of long-distance hikers at glocknerhof.at
Individual evidence
- ↑ Johann-Hufnagel-Weg - Emberg circular route on outdooractive.com
- ^ Seckenheim on friedhof-mannheim.de
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Hufnagel, Johann |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German long-distance hikers and first-time climbers of numerous European long-distance hiking trails |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 14, 1909 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Transylvania , Austria-Hungary |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 1, 1991 |
| Place of death | Mannheim-Suebenheim |