100 years - Austria / II. Republic of Austria 1996 - 6 Shilling

The foundation of the Austrian Mountain Rescue Service in 1896 is due to a mountain catastrophe involving three dead people, which led to the founding of an organized alpine rescue service, initially under the aegis of the alpine associations. The task of the new organization was to train auxiliary teams, to initiate search actions and aid measures, if necessary, and to provide rescue equipment. Ten years after its founding, there were already 173 rescue centers in the Eastern Alps. After the Second World War, the alpine rescue service developed into an independent and independent organization with the name "Austrian Mountain Rescue Service". Today's tasks include avalanche rescue with currently 257 avalanche dogs, to earth and helicopters, as well as the readiness of the first helicopter, Christopherus I, which is ready for use since 1983 24 hours a day. Decisive for the work of the mountain rescue service was also the introduction of the emergency call number 140 for alpine accidents in the sense of a shortening of the alarming time. Today's mountain rescue service with its 292 branches and 9,865 members has salvaged around 350,000 people from the Austrian mountains in the first 100 years of its existence.