Hans Kraus (November 28, 1905 in Austria-Hungary – March 6, 1996, in New York City) was a physician, physical therapist, mountaineer, and alpinist.
[2] Born in the Austro-Hungarian Empire, Kraus attended medical school in Vienna in the 1920s, against his father's wishes, becoming an orthopedic surgeon.
Passing his medical exams in New York, Kraus continued developing unique methods of fracture treatment, applying them to all kinds of athletes.
"[4] Kraus also continued to develop a unique approach to treating back pain in collaboration with another doctor, Sonja Weber.
Kraus was an associate professor at the State University of New York Downstate Medical Center College of Medicine.
[6] Kraus's White House medical records also contain several entries about Kennedy's back corset, which he had worn since Harvard.
Several leading presidential historians, including James Reston and Robert Dallek, theorized that Kennedy might have survived Dallas if he was not wearing the corset.
One of Kraus's and Wiessner's most significant efforts at the Gunks was High Exposure, a bold 5.6 that involves a blind reach around an overhung corner 150 feet up in the air; the route still confounds novice climbers.
[2] Kraus was born in what is now Trieste, Italy, which at the time was part of the 1867–1918 Austro-Hungarian Empire, he was taught English as a youth by James Joyce.
In 1938, the Kraus family fled Europe, just ahead of World War II, this time to the United States.
In 1959, Kraus remarried, to Madi Springer-Miller, a champion skier and the first woman to ski the "Lip" of Tuckerman's Ravine on Mount Washington.
He died peacefully on the morning of March 6, 1996, aged 90, in his New York City apartment, holding his daughter's hand.