Hilda Rückert (8 April 1897 – 14 November 1960) was a German ice skater.
Hildegard Charlotte Elisabeth Rückert was born in Charlottenburg, Berlin, the daughter of Fritz Karl Rückert and Luise Wilhelmine Karoline Schucht Rückert. [1]
Rückert traveled to New York City in 1915 with a troupe of young women ice skaters, to join a show at the Hippodrome. As a solo performer, she starred in a rooftop show at the Golden Glades restaurant in New York, [2] and made appearances on ice skates and rollerskates in Boston, [3] Ottawa, [4] Austin, [5] Saranac Lake, [6] Saratoga Springs, [7] and other North American cities. She skated and practiced diving at Indianola Park in Columbus, Ohio. [8] In 1923, she competed as a speed skater at Lake Placid. [9] [10] In 1924, she and her sister Ofilia gave skating exhibitions at the National Ice Skating Championships in Endicott, New York. [11]
Rückert returned to Europe by 1928. [12] She skated as a solo attraction at the St. Moritz Ice Rink for several years. [13] She also skated in pairs with Paul Kreckow, [14] and American skater Howard Nicholson. [15] She appeared in a film, Der Springer von Pontresina (1934).
Rückert married Svend Zacho Lind, a Danish man, in 1930. [16] She died in Nuremberg in 1960, aged 63 years. [17]
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