Ernst Baier (September 27, 1905 in Zittau, Saxony, Germany – July 8, 2001 in Garmisch, Bavaria, Germany) was a German figure skater. He became Olympic champion in pairs in 1936 together with Maxi Herber. The pair skaters also won several World and European championships.
Ernst Baier was skating for the club Berliner SC. He also enjoyed success as a single skater. He won silver at Europeans, Worlds and Olympic games in singles.
Maxi Herber and Ernst Baier revolutionized pair skating by performing the first side by side jumps in competition.
After the Second World War they skated in ice revues. Later the couple owned a business.
Maxi Herber and Ernst Baier married after their skating career in 1940. They had 3 children. In 1964 they were divorced.
Some years later they remarried but were divorced again.
Results in pair skating with Maxi Herber
- 1934 – 3rd place
- 1935 – not participated
- 1936 - 1st place
- 1937 - 1st place
- 1938 - 1st place
- 1939 - 1st place
- 1935 - 1st place
- 1936 - 1st place
- 1937 - 1st place
- 1938 - 1st place
- 1939 - 1st place
- 1934 - 1st place
- 1935 – 1st place
- 1936 - 1st place
- 1937 – not participated
- 1938 - 1st place
- 1939 - 1st place
Results as a single skater
- 1932 – 5th place
- 1936 – 2nd place
- 1931 – 3rd place
- 1932 – 3rd place
- 1933 – 2nd place
- 1934 – 2nd place
- 1929 – 7th place
- 1930 – 5th place
- 1931 – 2nd place
- 1932 – 2nd place
- 1933 – 2nd place
- 1934 – not participated
- 1935 – 3rd place
- 1936 – 3rd place
- 1934 - 1st place
- 1935 - 1st place
- 1936 - 1st place
- 1937 - 1st place
- 1938 - 1st place
Further reading
- E.R. Hall & T.D. Richardson - Champions all: camera studies by E.R. Hall (Frederick Muller, 1938)
- Richardson T.D - Modern Figure Skating (Methuen, 1938)
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