Wolfgang Diehl (alpinist)

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Wolfgang Diehl (1956)
Himalaya expedition 1956: Wolfgang Diehl (1st row: 4th from left)

Wolfgang Diehl (* 1908 in Vienna ; † June 17, 1990 in Bern ) was a Swiss lawyer , alpinist and deputy head of the Swiss Himalayan expedition in 1956 .

Life

Diehl grew up in Vienna and Eberberg near Munich. In Solothurn he attended high school and undertook his first climbing tours on the Weissenstein and in the Jura. He studied law at the University of Bern and in 1930 became a member of the Academic Alpine Club Bern .

With A. and W. Baltzer, W. Baumgartner, K. Bürgi, W. Lang and A. Müller, he has made numerous new tours in the Alps, such as Rinderhorn NE-Flanke, Kleines Wannenhorn SE-Wand, Doldenhorn Südgrat, Jumelle Südwestgrat, Mittagfluh Südkante, and Dent de Ruth SSW-Sporn ("Epéron Diehl").

He climbed summits in North Africa ( High Atlas ), Mexico ( Popocatepetl ), USA ( Yosemite National Park summit) and with the AACB expedition in 1958 the Ruwenzori . He and young AACB members spent the summers from 1951 to 1955 and 1957 with the Danish Lauge Koch Expedition in East Greenland (Danmarks Tinde, Erik Rodens Tinde). On August 2, 1953, together with Hansruedi von Gunten and John Haller, he managed the first ascent of Shackleton Bjerg.

On the Swiss Himalayan Expedition of the Swiss Foundation for Alpine Research in 1956 , he was deputy to the expedition leader Albert Eggler .

In 1968 he was appointed an honorary member of the AACB as the alpine instructor for a whole generation.

literature

  • Albert Eggler: Summit above the clouds. Lhotse and Everest . Hallwag Publishing House, Bern 1956
  • John Haller: Ascent of Shackleton's Bjerg . In: Mountains of the World, Volume 9 (1954)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Bergstille: Dent de Ruth “Diehlkante” 6a, A0, 300m
  2. ↑ John Haller: Ascent of Shackleton's Bjerg
  3. ↑ Hansruedi von Gunten: Obituary Wolfgang Diehl, AACB annual report 1990
  4. ↑ Bergfieber: Mountains of the World, Volume 9
personal data
SURNAME Diehl, Wolfgang
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss alpinist
DATE OF BIRTH 1908
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH June 17, 1990
Place of death Bern