Otto Eidenschink

Otto Eidenschink (born November 1, 1911 in Munich ; † November 6, 2004 ) was a German mountaineer .

Life

Eidenschink was a representative of the worker mountaineering movement in the 1920s and 1930s. 1936 first winter solo ascent of the Jubilee ridge . In 1937 he and Ernst Möller managed to climb the Eiger south-east face for the first time. 1939 first winter ascent of the Wetterkante ( Mittlere Wetterspitze ) with H. Lanig. After 1945 he founded and directed the Munich Mountaineering School and trained mountain guides for the German Alpine Association . He wrote a standard mountaineering textbook and autobiography, which is an interesting testimony to the history of mountaineering and the labor movement in the first half of the 20th century.

Fonts

as an author

• Proper mountaineering on rock and ice. For hikers and climbers. F. Bruckmann-Verlag, Munich 1964/67.

1. The technology in the rock . 5th edition 1964.
2. The technology in the ice . 5th edition 1967.

• Steep and rocky. Not always an easy life as a mountaineer . Panico-Verlag, Köngen 1999, ISBN 3-926807-68-7 .

as editor

• We and the mountains. Mountaineers tell . Schmitt Verlag, Munich 1948 (together with Fritz Schmitt).