Karl Schöttner

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Karl Anton Schöttner (born October 30, 1869 in Karlsbad ; † December 23, 1946 in Bamberg ) was an Austrian entrepreneur, mountaineer and non-fiction author.

Life

Karl Schöttner was born in house number 70 in the Bohemian spa town of Karlsbad. His parents were Heinrich Michael Lebzeltner Schöttner and his wife Wilhelmine Barbare nee Seidel, both from Karlsbad. He attended the commercial school in Prague, where he was a member of the local section of the German and Austrian Alpine Association. V. was. After returning to Karlsbad, he joined the parental forwarding company Schöttner & Seidel, based in Fischern, and from then on worked as a forwarding agent. In his free time he mainly devoted himself to mountaineering. As a mountaineer, as early as 1894, he suggested creating a path on the Laserzwand (2614 m above sea level) in the Lienz Dolomites.

The idea of ​​founding a separate section in the German and Austrian Alpine Association e. V. was created on September 15, 1901 in the Hotel Post in Karlsbad during a meeting between him and his brother Paul Schöttner with Franz Fischer, Wendelin Klemm, Laurenz Hochseeder, Ernst Fickert, Eduard Wobisch, Rolf Grimm, Ernst Baumgärtl, Josef Hofmann, Gustav Kutschera and Julius Stadler. After several months of preparation, on February 16, 1902, Karl Schöttner was one of the founders of the Karlsbad section in the Alpine Club. On that day he was elected head of the section. Under his leadership, the Karlsbad Section bought the Leitmeritzer Hut, inaugurated in 1888 in the Lienz Dolomites , on July 6, 1906 , which was then unmanaged, from the DeOeAV Teplitz section for 1,000 crowns. His application to rename it to Karlsbader Hütte was approved by the entire board of the German and Austrian Alpine Club in Innsbruck. In the following year, Karl Schöttner devoted all his energy to the renovation and expansion of this mountain hut, of which he had also been appointed hut warden. On September 6th, 1908, the inauguration of the extended Karlsbader Hut was celebrated in the presence of well-known guests, which from then on was managed by the family of a hut tenant from Merano.

After returning to Karlsbad on a permanent basis, Karl Schöttner devoted himself to the fundamental revision and updating of his self-published guide by Georg Adler in Eger through the near and far surroundings of Karlsbad for hikers, cyclists and winter sports enthusiasts, for rail, motor vehicle and car trips with a map of the area and a promenade map , the second edition of which appeared in the second half of 1912.

Until his death in 1946, immediately after his expulsion from Czechoslovakia , Karl Schöttner was the first chairman to shape the eventful history of the Karlovy Vary section of the Alpine Club.

Honors

  • The normal ascent on the Großer Muntanitz is called Karl-Schöttner-Weg.
  • A plaque for Karl Schöttner was attached to the laser wall.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Heinz Schubert: Karlsbad. A world bath in the mirror of time , 1980, p. 248.
personal data
SURNAME Schöttner, Karl
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schöttner, Karl Anton (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian mountaineer and author
DATE OF BIRTH October 30, 1869
PLACE OF BIRTH Carlsbad
DATE OF DEATH December 23, 1946
Place of death Bamberg