Hilda Sturm
Hilda Sturm 
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| Full name | Hildgarde storm |
| nation |
.svg){kind=small} German Empire
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| birthday | November 16, 1909 |
| place of birth |
Bonn , German Empire.svg){kind=small}
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| job | Model |
| date of death | August 31, 1992 |
| Place of death |
Paris , France
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| Career | |
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| discipline | Downhill, slalom, alpine combination |
| End of career | 1936 |
Hildgarde "Hilda" Sturm (born November 16, 1909 in Bonn , † August 31, 1992 in Paris ) was a German model and ski racer .
Life
Hilda Sturm went to Paris when she was 17. From a young age, she repeatedly took part in alpine ski races. She reached her career high point in this sport at the FIS races of 1933 in Innsbruck . In these races, which were later recognized as the World Ski Championships , she finished 11th as the second best of the German team in the descent from Pfriemesköpfl and came seventh as the best representative of her country in the slalom . In the final ranking of the Alpine Combined , she again achieved sixth place as the best German.
In France she worked as a model for fashion designers . In 1936 she married the photographer and artistic director of the French Vu magazine, Alexander Liberman . In the same year she got a role at the side of Maurice Baquet in Marcel Ichac's ski film " Poursuites blanches ". The film of a French antithesis to the successful German ski and mountain films of that time, z. B. by Arnold Fanck , Leni Riefenstahl and Luis Trenker , and was massively sponsored by the French Ski Association, became popular in France, especially after the successes of Émile Allais at the World Ski Championships of 1937 and 1938 .
In real life, Sturm refuses to continue to compete for Germany in skiing competitions under the National Socialist regime and, after she renounced a possible start at the Winter Olympics in Garmisch-Partenkirchen , was revoked her German citizenship .
After her divorce from Lieberman in 1939, she was in a liaison with the Paris -based American Charley Michaelis. During World War II they were separated and lost sight of each other. In La Baule-Escoublac she gave birth to her first son, whom she named after his father Charley.
Back in Paris in 1943 she was arrested for her "anti-German sentiments" and imprisoned in Berlin . After three months he was interned in the concentration camp for political prisoners in Ravensbrück . After her release in August 1944, she met her mother and young son again in the small town of Boppard . Here it was found again in 1945, after the liberation by the Americans, by Charley Michaelis, who worked for the US Office of Strategic Services and later organized boxing matches and other sporting events.
The two married and returned to Paris, where Hilda gave birth to another son in 1949. Michaelis died in 1986.
Success in skiing
Alpine World Ski Championships
 Alpine World Ski Championships |
competition | ||
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| Departure | slalom | Alpine combination | |
| 1933 Innsbruck | 11. | 7th | 6th |
source
- Hilda Sturm on: lietraloe.com; accessed on November 18, 2017
- Anny Blatt (Ski Wear) 1936 Hilda Sturm, Skiing Champion, Photo Lipnitsky Illustration Hilda Sturm 1936
- Hilda Sturm at the slalom of the 1933 World Championships in Innsbruck on: Bildarchivaustria.at; accessed on November 18, 2017
Individual evidence
- ↑ American National Biography. Supplement 2. Marc C. Carnes, Editor; P. 348 Entry: Liberman, Alexander
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Sturm, Hilda |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Sturm, Hildgarde; Libermann Hildgarde; Michaelis Hildgarde |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German ski racer and model |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 16, 1909 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Bonn , Germany |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 31, 1992 |
| Place of death | Paris , France |