Hildesuse Gärtner

Hildesuse Gardener ( * 1923 in Freiburg im Breisgau ) is a German former alpine skier. Between 1949 and 1952 she was seven-time German champion. Following her playing career, she hit a career as a reporter and journalist. Later, she appeared as the author of several travel reports in appearance.

Gardener comes from one of the most successful Skifamilien Germany. Her cousin Christl Cranz is considered one of the most successful racers of all time. Even her cousin Rudolf Cranz celebrated numerous national and international success. Soon she followed in the footsteps of their relatives and moved at the age of 14 years in the German national ski team on. In 1938 she participated in the World Ski Championships in the Swiss Engelberg. Your continued athletic development was interrupted by the outbreak of the Second World War. Gardener was employed as a nurse of the German Red Cross in the care of the wounded soldiers.

After the war, she focused on her studies in philosophy at the University of Freiburg, where she also gained his doctorate in 1949. In the same year she won in Oberstdorf in slalom their first German league title. Six more followed in the next three years: In 1950, she became German champion in the downhill and in combination, in 1951 and 1952 respectively in the slalom and combination. 1950 won the giant slalom gardener and 1951 the departure of the SDS race at Grindelwald.