Since 1970, Hans Huber has operated a gas station in Gasse.
He was unique.
He has now passed away at the age of 90.
Gmund -
Hans Huber would have loved to have eternal life.
He let his three children and the people around him know more often.
So he lived exactly like that - almost to the end: every morning he put on his blue work smock, fortified himself with a liter of milk and Striezeln, read the local newspaper and waited for customers to pull up to fill up.
If he didn't already see them through the window, then he heard the bell that they had to ring.
Time stood still at Hans Huber's gas station - and he with her.
The TÜV has always declared the company, which opened in 1970, to be suitable.
Even if Huber's gas station in the alley had no computer, no surveillance camera, no electronically controlled and permanently changing price information and no gasoline shop with newspapers and cigarettes.
“You won't find that anywhere else, only with me,” Huber said confidently.
Then he put on a charming smile and filled the tanks of farmers from the area, the neighborhood and holidaymakers from the surrounding holiday homes.
Yesterday's "Wieser Hans", named after the name of his property in the Gasse district of Gmund, was far from there.
Via teletext on his television, Huber always kept himself up to date on the oil prices on the New York Oil Exchange.
Then he compared them to the Norwegian and English markets.
Orders were placed from Aral and BP as required.
How the prices were with the modern competition around the Tegernsee, he let himself be carried, in order to then, if necessary, fetch his easel and manually operate the price board at the gas pumps.
This summer - the veteran Huber was still celebrating his 90th birthday - the first signs were visible that life could not last forever.
Suddenly he no longer tasted his milk and the Striezeln, then he had to go to the hospital and for short-term care.
"He fought like this until the very end and hoped that life could go on like this," says his daughter Christiane, who now has to guide her father to rest with close family and friends.
The gas station is closed for the time being, how it goes with her, nobody wants to worry about that yet.
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