Alexander Konig

Competitive career

In 1969 his family moved from Eilenburg to Berlin, where he started skating. In time König would come to represent SC Dynamo Berlin. There one of his first coaches was Inge Wischnewski.

König started his career as a single skater, but in 1985 he changed to pair skating and teamed up with Peggy Schwarz. Their coach was Hedemarie Steiner-Walther.

As a single skater König came 3rd at the junior world championships 1982. His greatest success, however, was in pair skating where he and Schwartz won the bronze medal in the 1988 European Cup.

In 1990 Peggy Schwarz and Alexander König changed their coach to Knut Schubert. The couple split in 1994 as Schwarz was pregnant. At this time Alexander König also finished his figure skating career.

Coaching career

From 1994 to 1997 he studied sport at the Trainerakademie in Cologne. He is an A-licensed coach of the DEU (German figure skating union). Already during his education he worked as a coach in Stuttgart, and following his graduation he took a job as a coach in Chemnitz. From 2001 to 2008 Alexander König worked as a figure skating coach in Berlin. He is also figure skating judge and technical specialist. He moved to Oberstdorf in the summer of 2008 to coach there.

In October 2014 König began to work as coach of Aliona Savchenko and Bruno Massot.

Personal life

Since 1983 he has also a successful painter and has had several exhibitions for his paintings. From 1985 to 1988 Alexander König attended school to become a specialist in gastronomy.