Maxi Herber

Olympic medal record
Figure skating
	1936 Garmisch-Partenkirchen	Pairs

Maxi Herber
Personal information
Country represented	Germany
Born	October 8, 1920 Munich, Bavaria, Germany
Died	October 20, 2006 (aged 86) Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Bavaria, Germany
Former partner	Ernst Baier
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

Herber and Baier

Maxi Herber (October 8, 1920 – October 20, 2006) was a German figure skater who competed in pair skating and single skating. She became (and as of 2014, still remains due to new age rules) the youngest female figure skating Olympic champion (at the age of 15 years, 4 months, and 5 days) when she won gold in pair skating together with Ernst Baier at the 1936 Winter Olympics. The duo revolutionized pair skating, becoming the first team to perform jumps side by side.

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.

Herber and Baier married after their skating career ended in 1940. They had 3 children. After World War II they skated in ice shows. Later the couple owned a business. In 1964 they were divorced. As a result of the divorce, she had to depend on social services to survive. Supported by the "Deutsche Sporthilfe" (German Sport help organisation) she moved to Oberau near Garmisch-Partenkirchen in Bavaria. Some years later Herber and Baier remarried, but were divorced again.

Herber suffered from Parkinson's disease. In 2000 she moved to the Lenzheim retirement home in Garmisch-Partenkirchen. Soon afterwards she had an exhibition of her watercolor paintings there. She died at age 86 in Garmisch-Partenkirchen; Herber had been Germany's oldest living female Olympic champion.

Results

(ladies singles)

Event	1933	1934	1935	1936	1937	1938
World Championships		7th
European Championships			4th	7th		4th
German Championships	1st	1st	1st			2nd

(pairs with Ernst Baier)

Event	1934	1935	1936	1937	1938	1939	1940	1941
Winter Olympic Games			1st
World Championships	3rd		1st	1st	1st	1st
European Championships		1st	1st	1st	1st	1st
German Championships	1st	1st	1st		1st	1st	1st	1st