Johann Santner

Johann Santner (* April 21, 1840 in St. Jakob in Defereggen, † May 21 1912 in Bolzano ) was a Tyrolean mountaineer and first ascent of the eponymous Santnerspitze Sciliar.

Life

Johann Santner was born on Gorlerhof in St. Jakob in Defereggen. He was the seventh of eleven children. Santner studied first with his father apprenticeship as a watchmaker and then went on tour. In 1868 he married Antonia forming taps from St. Paul's and settled in the sequence in Bolzano, where he joined the production of the later famous " Santnerkartln " devoted himself - postcards which were decorated with dried flowers. Basis for these crafts were alpine flowers, which garnered the botanical autodidact Santner even on lengthy tours in the still relatively undiscovered western Dolomites.

Since 1876 he was a member of the Bolzano section of the German and Austrian Alpine Club. He was one of the most zealous catalogers of the Dolomites in the classical age of alpinism. On July 2, 1880 he succeeded alone and without cable or other technical means, as well as from the key point without footwear for the almost impossible held by the local people climb the Great Schlern prongs. This Schlern the upstream rock tower bares the name Santnerspitze. Santner alpinistically was active mostly in the Rose Garden, where he climbed up the path from the first Tschein ( near the present-day Cologne hut) on the later named after him Santnerpass into Gartl under the rose garden tip. In the Langkofelgruppe he made in 1890 with Robert John Smith made ​​the first ascent of the five fingertip in the Geisler group in the same year he reached the middle of winter the summit of Sass Rigais. He also proposed the construction of the Schlern house, the Grasleiten, Sasso Lungo and Schlüterhütte and went to the promotion of mountaineering young deserves.

A year before his death he ascended the Kesselkogel, the Peitlerkofel and five times his favorite mountain, the schlern, whose summit he reached a total of about 400 times. In Siusi a road Santners bears names and there is a memorial stone dedicated to him. The section of Bolzano South Tyrol Alpine Club awarded its Schlernbödelehütte the name Johann Santner.