Barbara Henneberger

Barbara -Maria " Barbi " Henneberger ( born October 4, 1940 in Oberstaufen, † April 12, 1964 in St. Moritz, Switzerland ) was in the 1960s, a German alpine skier and Olympic bronze medalist in slalom.

From a young age became enthusiastic talent for alpine winter sports. In 1962 and 1963 she was in the downhill and giant slalom, 1960 and 1962 in the combination and in 1964 in the Slalom German champion. In addition there were ten runner-up five times she was third. In 1962 she became World Champion students.

Your greatest triumph she celebrated at the Olympic Winter Games in 1960 in Squaw Valley as a bronze medalist in slalom. In the combination, which counted only for the World Championships, she reached the bronze medal as well. The Federal Republic of Germany honored her with the Silver Laurel Leaf. In the SDS- race in Grindelwald she won in 1963 in Downhill, slalom and combined. With her and Heidi Biebl was at the Olympic Winter Games in 1960 two medal winners in skiing, the (then about 4500 inhabitants) are from the small town of Oberstaufen in the Allgäu native.

Barbara Henneberger came during the filming of the ski film ski fascination of her fiancé Willy Bogner along with the American racer Buddy Werner by a slab avalanche killed; she was buried in the Woodland Cemetery in Munich (age ). Willy Bogner was sentenced to two months in prison on parole for manslaughter by the Cantonal Court Committee of Graubünden on March 31, 1965.