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Hannes schneider biography


Excellent book about the man who developed and taught Ski technique and the first ski school in St Anton.

The legendary ski pioneer Hannes Schneider (1890-1955) was born in Stuben..

Hannes Schneider:
The Man who put Austria on Skis - Part I



As little as years ago, the Alpine areas of Austria (mostly Vorarlberg, Tyrol, Salzburg and parts of Upper Austria and Styria) were among the poorest and most underdeveloped in all of the German-speaking parts of the Empire.

Today, these areas are among the wealthiest with excellent infrastructure, a high standard of living and a booming economy. What happened? Skiing was invented. That′s all.

Johann "Hannes" Schneider (24 June 1890 – 26 April 1955) was an Austrian ski instructor of the first half of the 20th century, famous for pioneering the.

  • Johann "Hannes" Schneider (24 June 1890 – 26 April 1955) was an Austrian ski instructor of the first half of the 20th century, famous for pioneering the.
  • Hannes Schneider was an Austrian-born ski instructor who developed what came to be called the Arlberg technique, based on the snowplow.
  • The legendary ski pioneer Hannes Schneider (1890-1955) was born in Stuben.
  • Johann "Hannes" Schneider was an Austrian ski instructor of the first half of the 20th century, famous for pioneering the Arlberg technique of instruction.
  • Through his Arlberg Method he became the father of modern skiing technique.

    • Peasants and farmers in the Alpine regions of Austria had been using boards and poles to slide down the mountains for a long time (winters in the Alps are long and there is little else to do), and by around , proper skis were already used.

    They were naturally very coarse and simple and it took quite a bit of skills (alongside with a pole) to use them without breaking your neck - but they were skis, nonetheless. Around this time, skiing clubs were formed mostly in Tyrol.

    The railway system had been ext