Hacker, Aemilius#
b. Neulengbach, Lower Austria, March 3, 1870, d. on Schneeberg mountain, Lower Austria, in an avalanche accident on March 25,. 1912, lawyer, mountaineer, pioneer of Alpine skiing. In 1895/96 participated in an expedition to Caucasus and Central Asia, and in 1905 an expedition to Spitzbergen; in skiing, a follower of the method developed by M. Zdarsky.
Literature#
Mitteilungen des Deutschen und Oesterreichischen Alpenvereins, 1912; Oesterreichische Alpenzeitung, 1912; Oesterreichisches Biographisches Lexikon