Annie Hübler

In 1908 Annie Hübler and Heinrich Burger were the first Germans to won the pairs World Championship and they were the first German winter-sport Olympic Champions. They repeated as World Champions in 1910, and won German titles in 1907 and 1909.

She later became an actress and a singer at the Bremen Town Theatre and the München Chamber Theatre. After her marriage, Hübler managed the major department store “Horn” in München at the famous town square “Stachus”, which, with more than 1,000 employees, was briefly the third largest catalogue company in Germany in that era. In 1969 she was awarded the Officer’s Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany.