Paul Grohmann

Paul Grohmann, drawing by Ernst Platz , ca.1927

Paul Grohmann (born June 12, 1838 in Vienna ; † July 29, 1908 there ) was an Austrian alpinist and co-founder of the Austrian Alpine Club .

Appreciation

Paul Grohmann co-founded the Austrian Alpine Club in 1862 with Guido von Sommaruga and Edmund von Mojsisovics . He achieved numerous first ascents in the Dolomites , the Carnic Alps and the Zillertal Alps . Grohmann is one of the most outstanding Austrian alpinists of the early days.

In his honor, the previously unclimbed Sasso di Levante in the Langkofel group was renamed Grohmannspitze in 1875 . In Ortisei in Val Gardena in 1898, on the occasion of his 60th birthday, a monument was erected in honor of the first to climb many of the Dolomite peaks. In 1984 the Grohmannstrasse in Vienna- Donaustadt (22nd district) was named after him.

First ascents

Memorial to Paul Grohmann in Ortisei in Val Gardena (based on a photo by Emil Terschak in Ortisei in 1898)

• Hochalmspitze (August 15, 1859)
• Tofana di Mezzo (August 29, 1863)
• Boèspitze (July 30, 1864) - already climbed by local hunters
• Tofana di Rozes (August 29, 1864)
• Punta Sorapiss (September 16, 1864)
• Marmolada (September 28, 1864)
• Hochfeiler (July 24, 1865)
• Tofana di Fuori (August 27, 1865)
• Cristallo (September 14, 1865)
• Hohe Warte (September 30, 1865)
• Olperer (September 10, 1867)
• Dreischusterspitze (July 18, 1869)
• Langkofel (August 13, 1869), with Franz Innerkofler and Peter Salcher
• Große Zinne (August 21, 1869), with Franz Innerkofler and Peter Salcher

bibliography

• Paul Grohmann: Map of the Dolomite Alps of Sexten, Ampezzo, Cadore, Buchenstein, Fassa, Val Gardena, Enneberg, Braies. Edited from the best sources and own observations. Self-published. Vienna 1875.
• Paul Grohmann: Hikes in the Dolomites. With four woodcuts in tone printing. Verlag von Carl Gerold's Sohn, Vienna 1877 OCLC 248993156 (VIII, 327, 1 printing error correction , 4 plates); Facsimile: at Antiquariat Fines Mundi, Saarbrücken 2008 and by theclassics.us, United States 2013, ISBN 978-1-230-74047-8 .

literature

• Robert Hösch:  Grohmann, Paul. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 7, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1966, ISBN 3-428-00188-5 , pp. 120 f. ( Digitized version ).
• Grohmann Paul. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 2, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1959, p. 70.
• Hans-Günter Richardi : The development of the Dolomites. In the footsteps of the pioneers Paul Grohmann and Viktor Wolf-Glanvell in the pale mountains. Athesia, Bozen 2008, ISBN 978-88-8266-524-1 .
• Hans-Günter Richardi: The King of the Dolomites . In: Uphill. The magazine of the Austrian Alpine Club since 1875 . 03, June – August, 2008, pp. 48–49 ( alpenverein.at [PDF; accessed on May 24, 2016]).
• Wolfgang Strobl (Ed.): Paul Grohmann. Developer of the Dolomites and co-founder of the Alpine Association (= in vico Duplago. Dobbiaco local history, volume 1). Athesia, Bozen 2014, ISBN 978-88-6839-037-2 (with contributions by Hubert Kerner, Hans-Günter Richardi, Florian Trojer, Ingrid Runggaldier, Egon Kühebacher and Wolfgang Strobl).

Web links

Commons : Paul Grohmann  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Literature by and about Paul Grohmann in the catalog of the German National Library
• Grohmann in the Dolomites publications, Grohmanns Monument in Ortisei in Val Gardena , first map of the Dolomites (accessed on January 27, 2021).
• Paul Grohmann in the historical Alpine archive of the Alpine clubs in Germany, Austria and South Tyrol (temporarily offline)