Karl Günther of Saar

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Karl Günther Freiherr von Saar (born September 2, 1878 in Wiener Neustadt , † December 7, 1918 in Innsbruck ) was an Austrian mountaineer and surgeon.

genealogy

Günther von Saar was a son of Lieutenant Colonel Heinrich von Saar. His paternal grandfather named Heinrich von Saar (1799–1863) came from Kraków, worked as a district chief in Przemysel , was an imperial and royal councilor and married to Mathilde Smolka (1805–1880), who came from Lemberg .

Saars mother named Marie (1853-1919) was a daughter of the knight Eduard von Liszt (1817-1879). Her father was a gene with a doctorate in law. Procurator at the Supreme Court and Cassation Court in Vienna , belonged to the Judicial State Examination Commission and carried the Austrian Order of the Iron Crown. He was married to Karoline Pickbart (1827-1854).

From Saar's paternal uncle was the royal and imperial lieutenant colonel Rudolf (1843-1892), who was appointed baron in 1883. An uncle on his mother's side was the criminal lawyer Franz von Liszt (1851–1919): he himself married Klementine (Titty) Angerer, born in Dobřis in 1885 in Vienna in 1905 , with whom he had two sons and two daughters.

Life

After von Saar had attended grammar school, he studied medicine in Graz from 1897 to 1902. He completed his habilitation in surgery in Graz in 1911. In 1917 he became a professor at the University of Innsbruck . As head of a field hospital, he was taken prisoner by Russia at the beginning of the First World War in 1914. After his return he worked as a "corps consultant surgeon" on the Isonzo front .

As a schoolboy von Saar undertook various climbing tours, including in the Alps and the Dolomites. As a student he continued his passion and so he went on various mountain tours , often accompanied by Viktor Wolf von Glanvell . In contrast to his school days, these tours were new tours without a guide, but also took place in the Alps and the Dolomites.

Karl Günther Freiherr von Saar, who was one of Austria's leading mountaineers between 1902 and 1913, died during a flu epidemic.

Act

From 1899 von Saar was a member of the Austrian Alpine Club . He made 30 first ascents and created over 60 new tours in the Eastern and Western Alps. In 1901 von Saa climbed the Großvenediger for the first time on skis. He also explored the ski touring areas of Mürzzuschlag and Murau . With his first ascent of the Campanile di Val Montanaia , von Saar ended the era of summit ascents in the Eastern Alps.

Works

  • The north face of the Hochtor in the Gesäuse, in: Deutsche Alpenzeitung. 1901, No. 42/42, pp. 11-13
  • New tours in the Geisler group, ibid. 1902/03, no. 19, pp. 173–181
  • The east face of Monte Rosa, ibid. 1909, H 13, pp. 1–6
  • From the Fanis-Tofana group, in: Österreichische Alpenzeitung 1899, pp. 259–67
  • Snowshoeing around Murau in Styria, ibid. 1902, pp. 257–64, 269–73, 281–86
  • The Däumling im Gosaukamm, ibid. 1914, pp. 177–84
  • A crossing of the small and large Aiguille du Dru, ibid. 1917, pp. 80–85
  • On the development of the Carnic Pre-Alps, in: Cooperation between the German and Austrian Alpine Association (DÖAV) 1905, pp. 383–400, 1906, pp. 380–96, 1907, pp. 301–23, 1908, pp. 322–38 (with Karl Domenigg)
  • The mountains around the Klaas-Billen-Bay, ibid. 1909, pp. 109–35
  • A snowshoe trip on the Großvenediger, in: Mitt. Des DÖAV 1901, pp. 32–34
  • A crossing of the Aletschhorn, ibid. 1910, p. 16 f.

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Peter Grimm:  Saar, Günther Freiherr von. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 22, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2005, ISBN 3-428-11203-2 , p. 316 f. ( Digitized version ).
  2. ^ Peter Grimm:  Saar, Günther Freiherr von. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 22, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2005, ISBN 3-428-11203-2 , p. 317 ( digitized version ).
  3. ^ Peter Grimm:  Saar, Günther Freiherr von. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 22, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2005, ISBN 3-428-11203-2 , p. 317 ( digitized version ).
  4. ^ A b Peter Grimm:  Saar, Günther Frhr. v .. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 22, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2005, ISBN 3-428-11203-2 , p. 316 f. ( Digitized version ).
personal data
SURNAME Saar, Karl Günther von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Saar, Karl Günther Freiherr von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian mountaineer and surgeon
DATE OF BIRTH September 2, 1878
PLACE OF BIRTH Wiener Neustadt
DATE OF DEATH December 7, 1918
Place of death innsbruck