Anna Huebler

This article is about the figure skater. For the politician, see Anna Hübler (politician) .

Anna Huebler
nation	German Empire
birthday	January 2, 1885
place of birth	Munich
date of death	5th July 1976
Place of death	Munich
Career
discipline	Pair skating
Partner	Heinrich Burger
society	Munich EV
Medal table
Olympic medals 1 × 0 × 0 × World Cup medals 2 × 0 × 0 ×
Olympic games gold London 1908 Couples  World figure skating championships gold Saint Petersburg 1908 Couples gold Berlin 1910 Couples

Anna "Annie" Hübler (born January 2, 1885 in Munich ; † July 5, 1976 there ) was a German figure skater who started in pair skating .

On October 29, 1908, she became the first ever German female Olympic champion. Shortly before, Elsa Rendschmidt was the first German woman to win an Olympic medal. Hübler started for the Munich EV .

Hübler celebrated her greatest successes as a pair runner together with Heinrich Burger . At the Olympic Games in London in 1908 , the couple won the first ever competition in figure skating for couples in the Olympic program. In the same year and again in 1910 , Burger and Hübler also became the first pair skating world champions in history. European championships for couples weren't introduced until 1930.

After her figure skating career, Hübler trained as an actress and soprano in Munich from 1913. She then worked as a soubrette and actress at the Stadttheater Bremen and the Münchner Kammerspiele .

In 1918 she married the department store owner Ernst Horn and worked on the management of the department store on Stachus . After the Second World War , she was instrumental in the reconstruction of two department stores.

Honors

Annie Hübler-Horn on a postage stamp of the Deutsche Bundespost 1996

• 1969: Cross of Merit 1st Class of the Federal Republic of Germany

Results

Pair skating

(with Heinrich Burger )

Competition / year	1907	1908	1909	1910
Olympic games		1.
World championships		1.		1.
German championships	1.		1.

literature

• Marita A. Panzer: Annie Horn (1885–1976). Olympic champion in figure skating for couples . In: Marita A. Panzer / Elisabeth Plößl: Bavarias Töchter . Regensburg 1997, pp. 194-197

Web links

• Anna Hübler in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )