Gertraud Gruber

Gertraud Gruber (24 May 1921 – 12 March 2022) was a German beautician and businesswoman who founded her own beauty company, Gertraud Gruber Kosmetik, as well as the first beauty farm in Europe in 1955 in Rottach-Egern, which specialised in holistic treatments. Gruber was awarded the Bavarian Order of Merit, the Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany and the Bayerischer Verfassungsorden in Gold.

Early life and career Gertraud Gruber was born on 24 May 1921 in Max-Weber-Platz, Munich. She studied expressive dance at the Isadora Duncan School in Munich. During World War II, she worked as a nurse.

In 1949, she married Josef Gruber, and the two moved to Rottach-Egern. Originally it only operated in one treatment room before expanding to fifty with thirty guest rooms by 1973.

Gruber had sold her own cosmetics at the beauty farm, The following year, she received the Bayerischer Verfassungsorden in Gold. Gruber had previously also received the Bavarian Order of Merit and the Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany. She died that same year in Rottach-Egern on 12 March 2022, at the age of 100.