Johann Santner

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The Santner tip (left) with the Euringer tip (right)

Johann Santner (born April 21, 1840 in St. Jakob in Defereggen ; † May 21, 1912 in Bozen ) was a Tyrolean alpinist and first climber of the Santner peak on the Schlern, named after him .

Life

Johann Santner was born at the Gorlerhof in St. Jakob in Defereggen. He was the seventh of eleven children. Santner first completed an apprenticeship as a watchmaker with his father and then went on a hike. In 1868 he married Antonia Furcher from St. Pauls and subsequently settled in Bolzano, where he devoted himself to the production of the later famous "Santner Kartln" - postcards that were decorated with dried flowers. The basis for these handicrafts were alpine flowers, which the botanical autodidact Santner collected himself on lengthy tours in the as yet hardly developed western Dolomites .

From 1876 he belonged to the Bolzano section of the German and Austrian Alpine Club . He was one of the most eager explorers of the Dolomites in the classic era of alpinism. On July 2, 1880, alone and without rope or other technical aids and from the key point without shoes, he managed the ascent of the Großer Schlernzacken, which the local population thought was hardly possible . This rock tower in front of the Sciliar has been called the Santnerspitze ever since . Santner was mostly active in mountaineering in the rose garden , where he was the first to climb the path from the Tschein (near today's Kölner Hütte ) over the Santnerpass, which was later named after him, to the Gartl under the rose garden peak. In the Sassolungo group he made the first ascent of the five-finger tip in 1890 with Robert Hans Schmitt , in the Geisler group he reached the summit of the Sass Rigais in the middle of winter in the same year . He also suggested the construction of the Bolzano refuge , the Grasleiten- , Sassolungo and Schlüterhütte and made outstanding services to the promotion of mountaineering offspring.

A year before his death, he climbed the Kesselkogel , the Peitlerkofel and five times his favorite mountain, the Schlern, whose summit he reached about 400 times. In Seis am Schlern a street bears Santner's name and there is a memorial stone dedicated to him. The Bolzano section of the South Tyrolean Alpine Association gave their Schlernbödelehütte the name Johann Santner.

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personal data
SURNAME Santner, Johann
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian alpinist and first climber of the Santnerspitze named after him
DATE OF BIRTH April 21, 1840
PLACE OF BIRTH St. Jakob in Defereggen
DATE OF DEATH May 21, 1912
Place of death Bolzano