Karl Koller was born on April 16th 1919, the youngest out of ten in Kitzbühel. As a boy he was already fascinated by skiing, the sport that influenced his career for a lifetime, whether as a ski racer, as the head of the ski school in Kitzbühel or as the chairman of the Austrian Skiing Association. Karl Koller dedicated his life with all his heart and soul “The two planks that mean the world”.

Highlights in the life of Karl Koller
1938 Austrian Junior Champion, Downhill
1940 – 1942 Member of the National German Ski Team of the Greater German Reich
1943 – 1945 Alpine guide for the “German Wehrmacht” at the Alpine Medical School in St. Johann
1946 Hahnenkamm Champion, Combined
1950 – 1978 Head of the Ski School in Kitzbühel
Cofounder of the Association for Kitzbühel Ski Instructors and Mountain Guides
1969 Chairman of the Professional Ski Instructors Association of Austria
1976 Foundation of Kollerland, the famous ski school for children invented by Karl Koller
1995 Author of “Kitzbühel zu meiner Zeit”
1998 Author of “Freud und Leid zu meiner Zeit”

Honored with the golden order of the Province of Tirol

Today
Today, at the age of 91 Karl Koller lives with his wife Ida in Jochberg in Tirol. During the winter they both love to go wild cross-country skiing every day.