Willi End

Wilhelm "Willi" End (born March 20, 1921 in Baden near Vienna ; † December 11, 2013 ) was an Austrian mountaineer, mountain photographer and author of Alpine Club guides .

Life

Willi End has made more than 100 first ascents in his life , many of them with his longtime rope companion and work colleague Hubert Peterka , but later also with his wife Hermi.

Since 1950, End kept the chronicle of the first ascents in the Eastern Alps , first together with Peterka, later alone. He rewrote important Alpine Club guides, for example for the Dachstein Mountains or the Gesäuse Mountains . After Peterka's death he continued his leadership. Willi End owned a large archive with over 60,000 mountain pictures, of which around 7,000 were published in Alpine Club guides, illustrated books, calendars, and also in Walter Pause's books .

For many years Willi End was an employee of the Austrian Mountain Association , a section of the OeAV.

literature

• Bruno Klausbruckner: Willi End of an eighties? In: Der Gebirgsfreund, communications from the OeAV section of the Austrian Mountain Association . Issue 1, autumn 2001, p. 51 ( Online ( Memento of November 2, 2004 in the Internet Archive ) [PDF; accessed November 2, 2001]).
• Erich Schuller: Obituary Willi End . In: Der Gebirgsfreund, the magazine of the Austrian Mountain Association section . Issue 1/2014, March – May, p. 6th f . ( Online ( Memento of March 6, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) [PDF; accessed on March 6, 2014]).

Web links

• Personal folder for Willi End (PDF) in the historical Alpine archive of the Alpine clubs in Germany, Austria and South Tyrol (temporarily offline)