The Ski Club Arlberg and Stuben

Enthused by nature, dedicated to sport, motivated by the necessity to establish a modest meeting point for the friends of this noble pleasure, the spontaneously participating excursionists felt moved to found the Ski-Club Arlberg! St. Christoph, 3 January 1901. Read more...

Regular competitions for boys and girls also took place at the ski races, and the young Schneider from Stuben, [Viktor] Sohm's quickest pupil, naturally also appeared there. He quickly developed into an excellent, elegant jumper, and others weren't able to catch up on him in downhill either. Read more...

Today, Arlberg numbers among the most visited ski areas. [...] The meals and accommodation satisfy the large number of visitors and meet the increased demands. St. Anton has long enjoyed a reputation as a famous winter sports location, idyllic Stuben exerts a strong attraction for skiers. Read more...

The Great War naturally brought significant changes for Arlberg, St. Anton and Hannes Schneider's ski school. There was the military, quartering, military ski courses in St. Anton and St. Christoph – but Hannes Schneider was far from home, out in the war. Read more...

The Verband Vorarlberger Skiläufer (Vorarlberg Ski Club) announces that an error occurred in the calculation of the times at the Youth Ski Day on Pfänder. According to the revised calculation, the winning group in the first class is Skiclub Stuben with Walch Willy, Walch Anton and Riezler Ludwig. The first prize will be delivered to this group, who fought hard for it. Read more...

Of these forty-five competitors, some fifteen were professional instructors of a very high order, and included Friedrich Schneider, who is, perhaps, the finest all-ground runner in Europe. He is the brother of Hannes, who since his accident does not compete any more, and when his mantle fell, it had not far to fall to get on to his brother´s shoulders. Read more...

After Friedrich Schneider, Emil Walch (1902-1967) was the second racer from Stuben am Arlberg to achieve success in an Arlberg-Kandahar race. He won the slalom during the third competition of this type in St. Anton am Arlberg in 1930 and thus secured third place in the most prestigious discipline, the combination. Read more...

Rudolf (Rudi) Fritz (1901-1951) was an excellent ski racer who contested numerous races for Ski-Club Arlberg in the 1920s and 1930s. The son of postmaster Franz Fritz also demonstrated his skiing talent time and again by skiing down from the Ulm hut which his family managed to Gasthof Post in just three minutes. Read more...

Following the annexation of Austria in 1938, the new ruling powers in the NSDAP also assumed control of Ski-Club Arlberg. Anyone who did not fit their ideology was ostracized and persecuted. This applied in particular to Rudolf Gomperz, highly respected in many regards, who was murdered in 1942 in the Maly Trostinec extermination camp. Read more...

Along with Pepi Jennewein from St. Anton, Willi Walch (1912-1941) from Stuben was the most successful racer for Ski-Club Arlberg in the late 1930s. From an international perspective, he was the greatest winter sports athlete in Vorarlberg until the Second World War. He was famous for his elegant skiing style, which he used to win numerous prestigious races. Read more...

Rosa Riezler (1914-1990) is the most successful female racer in the history of Ski-Club Arlberg in Stuben. Before and after the Second World War, she won numerous races at a national level, including the prestigious Madlochrennen in Lech. However, she was denied recognition on an international level. Read more...

Rudi Riezler – emulating his older sister Rosa – began skiing at a very early age and, during the 30s, developed into one of the strongest young racers in Arlberg. In addition to Alpine competitions, the young Stuben native also contested Nordic competitions and, among other things, won a jumping competition in Lech in the winter of 1939. Read more...

The Ski-Club Arlberg, with its representatives in St. Anton, Lech, Zürs and Stuben, was resumed after the Second World War. The Arlberg Youth Ski Day, held every year, was used to promote skiing. Read more...

After Hannes Schneider was dismissed from all his posts in the annexation of Austria in 1938, he was rehabilitated by Ski-Club Arlberg after the end of the Second World War when the club appointed him as honorary chairman. Schneider played a part in the life of the club until his death. Read more...

The age of ski lifts in Stuben am Arlberg began in 1949. It also changed the activities of the ski club because the ski lifts made training the younger generation and arranging races significantly easier. The drag lift built in 1956 by Adolf Walch still exists today. Read more...

In addition to sport, another theme runs through the 120-year history of Ski-Club Arlberg – conviviality. Even the founding of the club occurred in the company of good friends at the St. Christoph hospice. For decades, SCA club evenings have also taken place in Stuben, at which new members are admitted and locals and guests meet in a cosy atmosphere. Read more...

In order to keep the memory of ski pioneer Hannes Schneider, born in Stuben am Arlberg, alive, the then head of the ski school Willi Mathies established the Hannes Schneider remembrance race in the 1980s. In the subsequent decades, this developed into an event steeped in tradition in which Ski-Club Arlberg plays a major role. Read more...

For almost ten years now, a life-size bronze sculpture created by Udo Rabensteiner reminds people of Hannes Schneider at the parish church of Stuben am Arlberg. The monument shows the ski pioneer on his way home from a ski tour – with the Ski- Club Arlberg logo, of course. Read more...

Nadine Wallner, from Klösterle, is one of the current sporting advertisements for Ski- Club Arlberg. In 2013, she became the youngest athlete to win the title of world champion on the Freeride World Tour. She was able to successfully defend her title the following year. The athlete is still often out and about in the mountains of her home. Read more...

Andreas Gohl, born in St. Anton, started freestyle skiing at the age of just twelve and has competed in the Winter Olympics twice. He achieved a notable eighth place in Pyeongchang in 2018. The athlete, who started for Ski-Club Arlberg, started a spectacular project on the serpentines of Flexenstraße in 2018. Read more...