“Fips” loves his sport, his mountain companionship and his homeland above all else.
When, as recently at the mountain mass on the Bühlach, the Peitinger wind instruments play in the evening sun, Thomas Huber's heart blossoms.
He enjoys the all-round view of Peiting and the Alpine panorama.
He has been associated with the mountains since childhood, and he passed on his love for nature to his children Konrad and Ulrike and grandchildren Felix and Fabian.
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- Now, in addition to the family, all friends and neighbors were happy that Thomas Huber, well recovered after a severe stroke, celebrated his 90th birthday in “old spiritual freshness”.
The only downer is that his Agi, whom he led in front of the altar on August 3, 1957, has to be looked after in the nursing home today. The friendship with Helga Häringer, who lends a helping hand to the family, has remained. Just as Thomas Huber was there all his life when his help was needed.
When Peiting's second mayor, Gunnar Prielmeier, delivered the congratulations from the market town, Huber's memories poured out at the “Hoagart”.
Huber was on friendly terms with Prielmeier's father Gustl, who died in 2018.
As if the competitions had only taken place yesterday, the jubilee describes the athletic and skiing events so vividly.
His victory in the Peitinger championship in three-way combat (long jump, shot put and 100-meter run) was already 1953, and in the following winter he was also Peitinger champion in skiing.
It was a matter of course that you went to the foreign competitions by bike, for example to Bromberg near Bad Tölz.
Likewise for mountaineering, especially in the Kenzen area, Huber's second home.
In conversation with Gunnar Prielmeier, memories of the legendary autumn fighting games are awakened as well as of the old Peitinger moor swimming pool.
Thomas Huber can also still remember his work in the mining industry.
After it was closed in 1968, he earned his living in the paper mill in Schongau.
You could always rely on him: be it at the wood action in 1954 on the Schnaidberg to expand the ski run in a way that conserves nature, or with the aid to Romania, which he was involved with twice in the 1990s.
His help with the restoration of the cross on the Sonnenbichl was a matter of honor.
"If a few get together, you can do a lot," the jubilee appeals to the young generation of pensioners.
He himself provided the best evidence of this in the construction of two new footbridges, destroyed by storms, over the Schwarzlaichbach von Hausen and the sand pit to the graveyard in 2013 and 2014.
At that time, the community could not have mastered the project in the damp terrain, inaccessible to heavy machinery.
On the spur of the moment, Huber organized a crew of retirees who tackled it with creativity and muscle power.
“That saved the community over 25,000 euros,” says former mayor Michael Asam, looking back gratefully.
Today, Thomas Huber looks to the future with confidence in God, and the friends of the Peiting homeland hope that he will be able to tell "about the old days" in his humorous way for a long time to come.
GERHARD HOT