Karl Vienna

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Karl Vienna

Karl ("Karlo") Vienna (born September 10, 1906 in Würzburg , † probably June 15, 1937 at Nanga Parbat ) was a German mountaineer .

Life

Karl Wien, son of a university professor and physicist Wilhelm Wien , which in 1911 the Nobel Prize in Physics was studied after high school in 1924 at the Wilhelm Gymnasium München Geography at the Ludwig-Maximilians University in Munich and was even a lecturer.

Vienna made his first mountain experiences in the Alps , where he and Willo Welzenbach made the first ascent of the north face of the Großglockner . Between 1924 and 1928 he was active member of the Munich Academic Alpine Club several times . Outside of Europe, he made several visits to Africa and the Himalayan region. In 1928 he and Erwin Schneider achieved the first ascent of Lenin Peak in the Pamir , at 7134 meters the highest mountain climbed at the time. In 1931 he was a member of the Kangchenjunga expedition led by Paul Bauer . As part of the Sikkim expedition in 1936, Vienna, together with Adolf Göttner, achieved the first ascent of the 6,888 meter high Siniolchu .

A year later, Karl Wien was chosen to lead the German Nanga Parbat Expedition in 1937 to the “German mountain of fate”. This was a renewed attempt to climb Nanga Parbat for the first time after ten mountaineers - Alfred Drexel , Uli Wieland , Willo Welzenbach , Willy Merkl and six Sherpas - lost their lives as part of the German Nanga Parbat Expedition in 1934 . On the night of June 14-15, 1937, Vienna and his comrades were camping in Camp IV when a huge ice and snow avalanche broke free from the séracs of the Rakhiot Glacier and buried the mountaineers. Seven Germans and nine Sherpas were killed, only the expedition doctor Uli Luft survived in a deeper camp. This catastrophe is still considered to be the greatest disaster on an eight-thousander . After this tragic event became known, Paul Bauer , head of the German Himalaya Foundation , organized an expedition to rescue the bodies.

literature

  • Paul Bauer: On a customer trip in the Himalayas. Siniolchu and Nanga Parbat - the deed and fate of German mountaineers . Knorr & Hirth, Munich 1937
  • German Himalaya Foundation: Nanga Parbat - Mountain of Comrades. Report of the German Himalaya Expedition in 1938 . German Himalaya Foundation, Munich 1943
  • Hans Hartmann: Destination Nanga Parbat. Diary sheets from a Himalayan expedition . Wilhelm Limpert-Verlag, Berlin 1944
  • Paul Bauer: The struggle for the Nanga Parbat. 1856-1953 . Munich 1955
  • Helfried Weyer, Norman G. Dyhrenfurth : Nanga Parbat, the Germans' mountain of fate . Karlsruhe 1980
  • Hermann Schaefer: The white cathedral. Adventure Nanga Parbat . Nymphenburger, Munich 1987
  • Helmuth Zebhauser: Alpinism in the Hitler State . Bergverlag Rother , Ottobrunn 1998, ISBN 978-3-7633-8102-9
  • Peter Mierau: The German Himalaya Foundation. Their history and their expeditions . Bergverlag Rother, Ottobrunn 1999, ISBN 978-3-7633-8108-1
  • Horst Höfler , Reinhold Messner : Nanga Parbat. Expeditions to the “German Mountain of Fate” 1934–1962 . Zurich 2002
  • Ralf-Peter Märtin: Nanga Parbat. Truth and madness of alpinism . Berlin 2002
  • Peter Mierau: National Socialist Expedition Policy . Herbert Utz Verlag, Munich 2006, ISBN 978-3-8316-0409-8

Web links

Commons : Karl Wien  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Memorial stele for Karl Vienna on the grave of the Vienna family in the Waldfriedhof (Munich) (grave field 178, location , image )
  2. ^ Annual report on the Wilhelms-Gymnasium in Munich. ZDB ID 12448436 , 1923/24
personal data
SURNAME Vienna, Karl
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Vienna, Carlo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German mountaineer
DATE OF BIRTH September 10, 1906
PLACE OF BIRTH Wurzburg , Germany
DATE OF DEATH around June 14, 1937
Place of death at Nanga Parbat , Pakistan