Annemarie Herwarth von Bittenfeld-Honigmann

Annemarie Honigmann
Full name	Annemarie Herwarth von Bittenfeld-Honigmann
nation	German Empire
birthday	October 2, 1905
date of death	November 12, 1982
Career
discipline	Downhill , slalom , alpine combination
society	Arlberg ski club
National squad	since at least 1929
End of career	1932

Annemarie Herwarth von Bittenfeld-Honigmann (née Honigmann ; * October 2, 1905 ; † November 12, 1982 ) was a German ski racer .

Private

Annemarie Honigmann was the first wife of the German civil servant and diplomat Hans-Heinrich Herwarth von Bittenfeld . In 1935 he married his second wife Elisabeth von Redwitz, with whom he later lived in Küps .

In newspaper reports on the ski races there are indications that she may have lived in Munich and Partenkirchen or came from one of the cities.

Success in skiing

In 1929 she finished tenth in the Alpine Combined at the Arlberg-Kandahar races in St. Anton am Arlberg . The winner of this race was Audrey Sale-Barker from England .

In the following year, after a fourth place in the slalom and a third place in the downhill with third place in the alpine combination behind Inge Lantschner from Austria and the Englishwoman Nell Caroll , she again achieved a top place in St. Anton . At the club level, she was a member of the Arlberg Ski Club at that time .

At the FIS races in Mürren in 1931, which today count as the first alpine ski world championships, she finished 17th on the downhill run on the Winteregg route, 13th in slalom and sixteenth final place in the alpine combination. In the long descent from Grütsch to Lauterbrunnen , she had to end the race early.

In Cortina d'Ampezzo she reached 21st place in slalom and downhill and 22nd place in the Alpine Combined at the Alpine World Ski Championships. In the downhill race she achieved third place for Germany in the newly introduced team classification with Mädi Schmidt , Lisa Resch and Annemarie Kopp and also third in the Alpine Combination with the aforementioned and Grete Matousek . In the slalom, the German team only reached fourth place behind Great Britain, Austria and Switzerland .

Alpine World Ski Championships

Alpine World Ski Championships	competition
	Departure	slalom	Alpine combination	Long descent	Team departure	Team slalom	Team combination
1931 Murren	17th	13.	16.	DNF	n / A	n / A	n / A
1932 Cortina d'Ampezzo	21st	21st	22nd	n / A	3.	4th	3.

Note: The Long Downhill and the team ratings are no longer officially rated by the FIS today .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Herwarth (complete) AUGSBURG.pdf accessed on December 3, 2017.
2. ↑ https://de.findagrave.com/memorial/185873987/annemarie-honigmann
3. ↑ Downhill and slalom runs in Mürren ; in: Freiburger Zeitung of February 21, 1931, 2nd sheet, p. 2.
4. ^ FIS race in Cortina d'Ampezzo. ; in: Freiburger Zeitung of February 5, 1932, 2nd morning edition, p. 3.
5. ↑ Arlberg Kandahar Results 1928-1955. ( Memento of the original from October 29, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. ; from: kandahar.org.uk , accessed December 3, 2017. 
6. ↑ Results on: alpineskiing-worldchampionships.com ; accessed April 6, 2015; meanwhile no longer available.