Segesser, Daniel Marc (14 June 2022). Preparing for War by Fostering Alpine Winter Tourism: Hermann Czant and His Ideas on Infrastructure for Fighting in High Altitude (Unpublished). In: Roads to Peace? Infrastructure, Peace, and Conflict: 2022 Annual Conference of the German Association for Historical Peace and Conflict Research. Online. 14.–15. Juni 2022.
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Already before the First World War Austro-Hungarian mountaineer and officer Herman Czant was amongst those, who like Mathias Zdarsky, Rudolf Wahl or Georg Bilgeri promoted alpine winter tourism, but also reminded his military colleagues that it was important for the Habsburg monarchy to prepare for war in mountainous terrain such as the Alps or the Carpathians. After the end of the First World War, in which Czant had served as an alpine officer, he published two studies, in which he dealt with the relationship between mountaineering, winter tourism and military operations in high altitude. While Tait Keller already addressed Czant’s ideas on the relationship between mountaineering and future military operations in high altitude, Czant’s statements on infrastructure have so far not received any attention.
It is the aim of the presentation proposed here to present an analysis of Czant’s statements on temporary or more permanent infrastructure for fighting in high altitude and to link these to other interwar ideas to set up further infrastructure projects in the context of measures taken to foster an alpine winter tourism in the first Austrian republic, which in turn generated new conflicts that were at least less deadly than those, in which Herman Czant had been involved in and for which he had made his plans.
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Conference or Workshop Item (Paper) |
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06 Faculty of Humanities > Department of History and Archaeology > Institute of History 06 Faculty of Humanities > Department of History and Archaeology > Institute of History > Modern and Contemporary History 06 Faculty of Humanities > Department of History and Archaeology > Institute of History > Economic, Social and Environmental History |
UniBE Contributor: |
Segesser, Daniel |
Subjects: |
900 History 900 History > 940 History of Europe |
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English |
Submitter: |
Daniel Segesser |
Date Deposited: |
17 Jun 2022 10:20 |
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05 Dec 2022 16:20 |
BORIS DOI: |
10.48350/170643 |
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https://boris.unibe.ch/id/eprint/170643 |
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