(1920-10-08)8 October 1920 Munich, Bavaria, Germany
Died
20 October 2006(2006-10-20) (aged 86) Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Bavaria, Germany
Figure skating career
Country
Germany
Retired
1941
Medal record
Representing Germany
Pairs Figure skating
Olympic Games
1936 Garmisch-Partenkirchen
Pairs
World Championships
1939 Budapest
Pairs
1938 Berlin
Pairs
1937 Vienna
Pairs
1936 Paris
Pairs
1934 Helsinki
Pairs
European Championships
1939 London
Pairs
1938 St. Moritz
Pairs
1937 Prague
Pairs
1936 Berlin
Pairs
1935 St. Moritz
Pairs
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Maxi Herber (8 October 1920 – 20 October 2006) was a German figure skater who competed in pair skating and single skating. She remains the youngest figure skating Olympic champion (at the age of 15 years and 128 days) from when she won gold in pair skating together with Ernst Baier at the 1936 Winter Olympics.[1]
Born in Munich, Herber was also an accomplished single skater, winning the German nationals three times, from 1933 to 1935. She skated for the Münchner EV (Munich EV) club.[2]
Skating with Baier, she won seven national titles, five European titles, and four World titles, in addition to their Olympic gold. Herber later sold her Olympic gold medal and donated the money to survivors of the Holocaust.[3] The pair performed several side-by-side jumps, including side-by-side Axel jumps at the 1934 Championships, likely the first side-by-side Axels competed by a pair at an ISU championship.[4]: 120–121 They also developed a 'Baier lift', which was similar to a twist lift but lacking a release of Herber into the air.[4]: 135
Herber and Baier married after their skating career ended in 1940. They had three children. After World War II they skated in ice shows; they created their own, which was later sold to Holiday on Ice.[1] In 1964 they were divorced. She worked as a coach, then supported by public welfare and the "Deutsche Sporthilfe" (German Sport help organisation), she moved to Oberau near Garmisch-Partenkirchen in Bavaria.[3] Some years later Herber and Baier remarried, but they divorced again.
Herber suffered from Parkinson's disease. In 2000, she moved to the Lenzheim retirement home in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, where she held an exhibition of her watercolor paintings. She died in 2006 at age 86.[1]
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