Vineta Mayer

Vineta Mayer (born July 1, 1865 in Trieste , † April 5, 1945 in Vienna ) was an Austrian mountaineer . Her maiden name was Seiller. She was a member of the Austrian Alpine Club .

Services (selection)

On August 9, 1903, she took part in the first ascent of the southeast route of the Cima Brenta Alta ( 2960  m ) in Trentino .

On August 11, 1903, she was the first woman to climb the neighboring Campanile Basso (Guglia di Brenta) ( 2883  m ).

In early February 1908, she was the first woman to reach the Cabane Vallot mountain hut ( 4362  m ) on Mont Blanc in winter .

Private

Mayer was married to the businessman Alfred Gustav Mayer (1862-1924), who was also a mountaineer, and they went on numerous tours together.

According to the ÖBL, Vineta and Alfred had two sons: Max Mayer (* 1890 or 1893) and the chemist Guido Mayer (1891–1945); Both were also mountaineers, carried out some first ascents in civilian life and during the mountain war, and also published. According to information from the IKG and the Reformed City Church, their parents were Bernard Mayer (1849–1918) and Mathilde Wiener (1866–1942).

Vineta committed suicide in her apartment in downtown Vienna when the Russian occupation troops approached .

memories

• A room in the Karl-Ludwig-Haus on the Rax has been named after Mayer since 1903 after she donated the room furnishings on the occasion of the 25th anniversary of the Karl-Ludwig-Haus.
• Mayer's name was (is?) Engraved on a stone at the summit of the Cima della Madonna in Trentino.

Web links

• Ilse Korotin (Ed.): BiografıA: Lexicon of Austrian women . Volume 2: I-O . Böhlau, Vienna a. a. 2016, ISBN 978-3-205-79590-2 , p. 2193. PDF (7.4 MB)
• Pierre Lafitte (Ed.): Femina, No. 255, September 1, 1911, p. 470 (French). Mayer is marked as No. 4 in the photomontage.
• Frederick Burlingham: How to become an alpinist. P. 96 (with photo on Zimmersteig / Rax) and 99 . T. Werner Laurie Ltd, London, 1914. (Eng.)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Angelo Elli: Vineta Mayer (ital.). Accessed September 3, 2018.
2. ^ DAV Panorama, magazine of the German Alpine Club , ISSN  1437-5923 , Munich, No. 5/1999 : Campanile Basso - Guglia di Brenta. PDF (1.7 MB)
3. ↑ Illustrated Österreichisches Sportblatt, December 11, 1914, p. 3
4. ^ Neue Freie Presse, August 27, 1924, p. 12
5. ^ Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 : Mayer, Guido (1891–1945), alpinist and manufacturer
6. ↑ ^{a b} Josef Hasitschka, Ernst Kren, Adolf Mokrejs: Erlesees Gesäuse . Schall-Verlag, 2012. ISBN 978-3-900533-72-4 . P. 515.
7. ^ ^{A b} Felix Gundacker : GenTeam
8. ↑ ^{a b} Austria Nachrichten , 4/2015: “Do not tolerate that the fires of hatred blaze up again!” (P. 10)
9. ↑ Guido Mayer in the Vienna History Wiki of the City of Vienna
10. ↑ Matija Turk: Tragična usoda plezalnega mojstra Guido Mayer (1891-1945?) . Planinska Vestnik, No. 1/2014, pp. 22–26. (Croat.)
11. ↑ Thadeus Tschofenig / Helmut Tributsch: Enzianturm 1916: Memories of a Kanaltaler Kaiserjäger
12. ↑ Guido Mayer: The Langkofel Group - its tourist development since 1895 . Journal of the German and Austrian Alpine Association , 1913, pp. 244–310.
13. ↑ Mariborski Vecernik, April 26, 1939, p. 8. PDF (3.5 MB)
14. ↑ Marriage book Reformierte Stadtkirche, Tom. XIII., Fol. 2
15. ↑ Search and find (Tatjana Suchovsky, Rudi Benesch): Vineta-Zimmer Karl-Ludwig-Haus, Rax, Niederoesterreich / Steiermark, Austria . Accessed September 3, 2018.
16. ↑ Österreichische Touristenzeitung, 1916, No. 10, p. 155
17. ↑ altitudini.it: fotostory | Sulla Cima della Madonna con Guido Rey , January 22, 2015 (Italian). Retrieved September 3, 2018.
18. ↑ Aquile San Martino di Castrozza, No. 2, 2015. PDF (15.7 MB). Pp. 16 and 19 (Italian)