Gusti lover died at the age of 91.
His comrades from the Tölzer Bergwacht describe him as a "stroke of luck" and remember many experiences with him.
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- He was characterized by his willingness to help as well as his humor.
The Tölzer Bergwacht mourns the loss of its member Gusti lover, who died on November 18th at the age of 91.
His comrades call him a "stroke of luck" for the mountain rescue service.
Gusti lover learned the trade of carpenter, then he became a bailiff
Gusti lovers moved to the Isarwinkel after his family in Munich was bombed out during World War II. He had already got to know the region through the regular summer vacation in Gaißach. The enthusiastic mountaineer, climber and ski tourer quickly made friends at the vocational school, while training to be a carpenter and also with the mountain rescue service.
While his career path led him to the judiciary instead of the carpenter's workshop - lover became a bailiff - working with wood remained his private passion.
He also brought his skills to bear in the construction of the mountain rescue service hut on the Brauneck and later in the construction of the service hut on the Blomberg.
“He taught us how to plan the Schrop for wall and ceiling paneling,” recall his comrades Axel Mietzner and Norbert Weinhuber.
"And he was always busy sharpening the planing tool."
How Gusto lovers were once bitten in the buttocks by their own teeth
Walther Zoelch describes what a mountain rescue service looked like during Gusti Liebhaber's active time: “The depot was in the BRK building on Botengasse, and the first vehicle was a decommissioned DKW two-cylinder Mungo of the Bundeswehr. Few had a phone. There weren't any radios yet. "During night-time operations, people used red or green flares to communicate - the latter meant:" We have found him. "
The mountain rescue service also tells of many other missions in which lover was involved.
At the end of November, for example, a mountain rescue group had to be evacuated from the Tölzer Hütte after the descent had become impossible due to days of snowfall.
The anecdote of how Gusti lover was once bitten in the buttocks in a fall by his own dentition is still a source of amusement: it had loosened and he had deposited it in the back pocket of his pants.
Enterprising and loving: Farewell to Gusti lover
Among the mountain rescue comrades, apart from the missions, he was not only responsible for sheep's head and Wattn, but was also not too good for a rather unpopular task: emptying the "shit pit" on the Brauneck.
This was initially done with a scoop, later with a loaned agitator and a petrol pump from the mountain railway, as Mietzner and Weinhuber report.
They add: "The nettles in the Mengelestich - a steep ditch below the hut - thanked you with their splendid growth."
His adventurous spirit took lovers on mountain tours - from the Swiss mountains, where he once fell headlong into a glacier stream, to the Annapurna region of Nepal and the north Indian Himalayas.
His great love was his wife Marianne.
For the last of the 50 years they were married, he cared for her at home with devotion.
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