Hasler Gustav Adolf

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Biografie:
Hasler Gustav Adolf, * in Bern, ab 1943 Grindelwald, + (Schweiz)

Gustav Adolf Hasler war ein herausragenden Schweizer Bergsteiger und eine große Persönlichkeit.
Er war in den ganzen Alpen unterwegs, aber in erster Linie war sein Name mit dem Berner Oberland verbunden. Hasler konnte als Bergsteiger sehr viel Zeit in Grindelwald verbringen.
Obwohl er mit bekannten Führern wie mit Jossi sen., Fritz Amatter, Johann von Allmen, Peter Bernet und anderen kletterte, war er ein gleichberechtigter Partner und war selbst ein geprüfter Führer und einer der besten Eisgeher im Berner Oberland. Der Aufstieg der Nordostwand des Finsteraarhorns war vielleicht die größte Leistung in seiner großen Bergsteigerlaufbahn, aber auch die "Hasler-Rippe" am Aletschhorn war eine hervorragende bergsteigerische Leistung. Er hatte auch eine Reihe von gewaltigen Touren im Lauterbrunnental unternommen. Hasler machte 1904 den zweiten Abstieg des Mittellegigrates am Eiger. In der Engelhorngruppe war er als Erschließer tätig.
Hasler hat sich große Verdienste um den Bau der Konkordia-Hütte erworben.
Er hat eine Reihe von Artikeln und Anmerkungen in alpinen Zeitschriften veröffenlicht.
Mit Coolidge hatte er zusammengearbeitet, um die neue (1902) Edition der "Conway-Coolidge"-Guides vorzubereiten, für den Band "Gemmi to Mönchjoch" zeichnete er sich mitverantwortlich.

1902 1.Beg.Überschr.Rosenlauistock-Westkante,IV,2198m,-Tannenspitze-Westgrat,III,2255m, (Engelhörnergruppe,Berner Alpen)
1902 1.Beg.Überschr.Engelburg-Westgrat,2304m,-Sattelspitzen-Westgrat,2337m,IV,440 HM, (Engelhörnergruppe,Berner Alpen)
1903 Überschreit.Kleintschingelhorn,3495m,-Großtschingelhorn über Südwestgrat,3562m,III, (Berner Alpen)
1903 1.Winterbest.Aiguille Verte,4122m, (Montblancgebiet)
1904 1.Best.Großes Gelmerhorn von Norden,2631m, (Berner Alpen)
1904 1.Beg.Finsteraarhorn-Nordostwand "Ostnordostsporn-Hasler-Führe",1100 HM,4273m, (Berner Alpen)
1904 1.Winterbeg.Aletschhorn-Nordwand Haslerrippe,4195m, (Berner Alpen)
1904 1.Beg.Mönch-Nordostwand,260 HM,55°-60°,4099 m, (Berner Alpen)
1904 2.Abstieg Eiger-Mittellegigrat,3970m, (Berner Alpen)
1904 Skiüberschr.Strahlegg bis zur Grimsel, (Berner Alpen)
1905 1.Winterbest.Finsteraarhorn,4273m, (Berner Alpen)
1906 1.Beg.Trugberg-Nordwestgrat,3933m, (Berner Alpen)
1921 1.Beg.Großer Diamantstock-Ostflanke u.Südwestgrat,3162 m, (Grimselpass)
Gerd Schauer,Isny im Allgäu


Gustav Adolf Hasler (1877- 1952)
The delay in publishing an obituary notice of this outstanding Swiss mountaineer of the older generation is much to be regretted, but was due to causes beyond control.
Originally elected to the Alpine Club in February 1901, Hasler resigned in 1905 and was re-elected in 1918. Something of his early life is contained in the essay on him in' The Mountain World 1953 '(Geo. Alien & Unwin) by Herr Othmar Gurtner. At an early age, Hasler inherited from his father the family business, ' Hasler S. A. manufacture d 'appareils telephoniques et de precision,' a small factory then, but which he developed into one of the leading manufacturing organisations in Switzerland. They celebrated their centenary in the year he died.
Hasler was not less notable as a mountaineer than as a forceful personality in Swiss industry. No attempt will be made here to list his expeditions. As Farrar noted enviously (A.J. 35·p 252), Hasler was apt to spend from May to September at Grindelwald and he made abundant use of the advantages that came to him from-proximity to the mountains. It may be remarked that his original qualification paper for admission to the Alpine Club already indicated his interest in winter ascents, of which a long list is given by Herr Gurtner. He travelled widely throughout the Alps, but primarily his name is connected with the Oberland, of which few men can have had greater knowledge.
He contributed a number of articles and notes to the ALPINE JOURNAL, particularly in vols. 20- 23, and he read a paper on the north-east face of the Finsteraarhorn to the Club on December 12, 1921 (A.J. 34· p 268). In later years, his great knowledge of the Oberland guides made him a natural source of information for obituary or similar notices (e.g. A.J. 54. 161 ; 56. 404 ; 58. 121 ).
He had collaborated with Coolidge in preparing the new (1902) edition of the ' Conway-Coolidge ' guides, being responsible for the volume covering ' Gemmi to Mönchjoch.' But, like others, he fell into disgrace with the irascible editor-in-chief, and became the object of much vituperation.
Though he climbed with guides of such calibre as the elder Jossi, Fritz Amatter, Johann von Allmen, Peter Bernet and others, he climbed as an equal and was himself a certified guide, and one of the finest icemen . in the Oberland. The ascent of the north-east face of the Finsteraarhorn was, perhaps, the greatest feat in his immense mountaineering career, but he is also commemorated by the ' Hasler rib ' on the Aletschhorn, and had made a number of fine expeditions across that formidable rock-and-ice wall that closes in the Lauterbrunnenvalley.
Hasler made the second descent of the Mittellegi ridge of the Eiger in 1904, and had attempted that same year, as again in 1906, to make the ascent (A.J. 34·p 167). Unluckily for him, he was too much occupied in succeeding years to be able to return to this great objective, and his old companion, Fritz Amatter, took another employer up the arête for the first time ( A.J. 34·p 166 ), much to Hasler's chagrin.
With his passing, we lose a member of great renown, and the mountaineering fraternity a climber of surpassing distinction.
T. S. Blakeney
Quelle: Alpine Journal Vol. 59. Nr. 288, 1954, Seite 334-335



Geboren am:
28.10.1877
Gestorben am:
1952