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Hans-Jürgen Bäumler
Hans-Jürgen Bäumler
	Bäumler in 2011
Born	28 January 1942 (age 82); Dachau, Bavaria, Nazi Germany
Height	174 cm (5 ft 9 in)
Figure skating career
Country	West Germany
Retired	1964
Medal record
Pairs' figure skating
Representing Germany
Olympic Games
Representing West Germany
World Championships
European Championships

Hans-Jürgen Bäumler (born 28 January 1942) is a German former pair skater, actor, and Schlager singer.

Career

Bäumler became famous in pair skating with his skating partner Marika Kilius. Between 1958 and 1964, they won the German nationals four times, became European champion six times, and world champion in pair skating twice.^[1]^[2] Their coach was Erich Zeller. The duo won a silver medal at the 1960 Olympic Winter Games, and Bäumler became one of the youngest male figure skating Olympic medalists. In 1964, they won a silver medal again.^[1]

The duo had signed professional contracts and skated as professionals with Holiday on Ice before the 1964 Olympics, a violation of their amateur status and strict IOC rules.^[3]^[4]^[5] In 1966, they were stripped of the medal because of this.^[3]^[4] As The New York Times reported, the IOC "quietly re-awarded the West Germans their silver medals in 1987, 23 years after the Innsbruck Games, at an executive board meeting in Istanbul. The couple was deemed 'rehabilitated.'"^[6]^[7]^[8]

After their amateur figure skating career, both became singers of German Schlagers (German version of pop songs). In the mid-1960s, they recorded some songs together; Bäumler also had songs as a solo singer. Bäumler's greatest success was the song "Wunderschönes fremdes Mädchen" ("Beautiful Foreign Girl"). The most successful songs of the duo were "Wenn die Cowboys träumen" ("When Cowboys Dream") and "Honeymoon in St. Tropez", both in 1964.^[2]

From 1964, Bäumler has also worked as an actor. In 1969, he had a main role in The White Horse Inn, and in 1970 in Maske in Blau (Mask in Blue), both operettas. He was also successful in the television series Salto Mortale. In the mid-1970s, Bäumler hosted several quiz shows, among others Der Apfel fällt nicht weit vom Stamm ("The apple does not fall far from the trunk"), Das waren Hits ("These were hits"), and Was wäre wenn ("What if") on ZDF. Between 1990 and 1993, he worked for RTL. Later, he was also seen as a theatre actor.^[2]^[9]

Personal life

Since 1974, Bäumler has been married to Marina, a teacher. The couple has two sons, Christoph and Bastian, and lives in Nice, France.^[2]

Results

Men's singles

Event	1955	1956	1957	1958	1959
World Championships		12th		14th
European Championships		14th	6th	8th
German Championships	4th	3rd	2nd	3rd	3rd

Pairs with Marika Kilius

Event	1958	1959	1960	1961	1962	1963	1964
Winter Olympic Games			2nd				2nd
World Championships	6th	2nd	3rd			1st	1st
European Championships	5th	1st	1st	1st	1st	1st	1st
German Championships	1st	1st	2nd	2nd	2nd	1st	1st

Filmography

1964: Die große Kür (The great free program), as Hans-Jürgen Bäumler
1965: Die Liebesquelle (The love source), as Leif
1965: Call of the Forest, as Bernd Helwig
1966: Happy End am Wolfgangsee (Happy End at the Lake Wolfgang), as Mike
1966: The Sinful Village, as Herbert
1967: Das große Glück [de] (The great happiness), as Hans-Jürgen Bäumler
1967: Paradies der flotten Sünder (Paradies of perky sinners), as Heinz Haller
1970: Hurra, unsere Eltern sind nicht da [de] (Hooray, our parents are not here), as Klaus Müller
1971: Holidays in Tyrol, as Stefan Hellwig
1972: Die lustigen Vier von der Tankstelle [de] (The comic Four from the petrol station), as Tommy
1973: Sonja schafft die Wirklichkeit ab oder … ein unheimlich starker Abgang (Sonja abolishes reality or ... A weird strong leave)