She remains the youngest figure skating Olympic champion (at the age of 15 years and 128 days) from when she won gold in pair skating together with Ernst Baier at the 1936 Winter Olympics.

[1] Born in Munich, Herber was also an accomplished single skater, winning the German nationals three times, from 1933 to 1935.

Herber later sold her Olympic gold medal and donated the money to survivors of the Holocaust.

She worked as a coach, then supported by public welfare and the "Deutsche Sporthilfe" (German Sport help organisation), she moved to Oberau near Garmisch-Partenkirchen in Bavaria.

In 2000, she moved to the Lenzheim retirement home in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, where she held an exhibition of her watercolor paintings.