Ernst Baier

Ernst Baier
Maxi Herber and Ernst Baier
nation	Germany
birthday	September 27, 1905
place of birth	Zittau
date of death	July 8, 2001
Place of death	Garmisch-Partenkirchen
Career
discipline	Pair skating, single skating
Partner	Maxi Herber
society	Berliner SC
Trainer	Günther Lorenz
Medal table
Olympic medals 1 × 1 × 0 × World Cup medals 4 × 2 × 3 × EM medals 5 × 3 × 2 ×
winter Olympics gold Garmisch-Partenkirchen 1936 Couples silver Garmisch-Partenkirchen 1936 Men's  World figure skating championships bronze Berlin 1931 Men's bronze Montréal 1932 Men's silver Zurich 1933 Men's silver Stockholm 1934 Men's bronze Helsinki 1934 Couples gold Paris 1936 Couples gold London 1937 Couples gold Berlin 1938 Couples gold Budapest 1939 Couples  European figure skating championships silver Vienna 1931 Men's silver Paris 1932 Men's silver London 1933 Men's bronze St. Moritz 1935 Men's gold St. Moritz 1935 Couples bronze Berlin 1936 Men's gold Berlin 1936 Couples gold Prague 1937 Couples gold St. Moritz 1938 Couples gold Davos 1939 Couples

Ernst Baier (born September 27, 1905 in Zittau ; † July 8, 2001 in Garmisch-Partenkirchen ) was a German figure skater who started in single and pair skating .

Career

In pairs skating with Maxi Herber Baier was designed by 1935 bis 1939 five consecutive European champion from 1936 bis 1939 four times world champion and 1936 Olympic champion in Garmisch-Partenkirchen .

Ernst Baier and Maxi Herber have revolutionized pair skating. They were the first to show parallel jumps. The couple also appeared in Leni Riefenstahl's official Olympic film . Ernst Baier had designed the freestyle and found a composer who accompanied it musically in order to create a unity between running and music.

Ernst Baier, who started for the Berliner SC, was also successful in the individual run and was runner-up in Europe three times ( 1931 , 1932 , 1933 ), twice as runner-up world champion ( 1933 , 1934 ) and won silver medals at the Olympic Games 1936 behind Karl Schäfer .

Baier is - alongside the British Madge Syers , who succeeded in doing this in 1908 - one of only two people and the only man who was able to win two medals in figure skating at the same Olympic Games, both in individual skating and in pair skating.

At the same time as his sports career, Baier finished his architecture studies.

After their amateur career, Baier and Herber married in 1940 and had two sons and a daughter. The marriage ended in divorce in 1964. A few years later, Ernst Baier remarried - a Swedish figure skater - had a daughter and was divorced again. He later married a third time.

After the Second World War , the Baier couple founded the Eisrevue Eisballett Maxi and Ernst Baier in 1951 . It later sold the business to Holiday On Ice.

Baier's grave is in the Partenkirchen cemetery .

Results

Single run

Competition / year	1929	1930	1931	1932	1933	1934	1935	1936	1937	1938
winter Olympics				5.				2.
World championships			3.	3.	2.	2.
European championships	7th	5.	2.	2.	2.		3.	3.
German championships	2.			2.	1.	1.	1.	1.	1.	1.

Pair skating

(with Maxi Herber )

Competition / year	1934	1935	1936	1937	1938	1939	1940	1941
winter Olympics			1.
World championships	3.		1.	1.	1.	1.
European championships		1.	1.	1.	1.	1.
German championships	1.	1.	1.		1.	1.	1.	1.

Web links

• Ernst Baier in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )
• Entry in the sports book volume 1 (PDF; 3.6 MB)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Gerd Otto-Rieke: Graves in Bavaria . Munich 2000, p. 94.