Their career was curtailed by World War II; they won Nationals when they were reinstated in 1947.

Falk's profession outside athletics was as a precision mechanic; he was also "a prominent coach in Germany".

[2] He died 8+1⁄2 months before Aliona Savchenko and Bruno Massot won the gold medal for pairs skating at the 2018 Winter Olympics.

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