Jacques Gerschwiler

Jacques Gerschwiler (10 September 1898 – 4 May 2000) was a Swiss figure skater and coach.

Personal life Born in Arbon, Switzerland in 1898, he was the half-brother of Arnold Gerschwiler and the uncle of Hans Gerschwiler.

Career Gerschwiler went to Berlin to study to become a sports coach, where he became familiar with skating and began to develop his own ideas about skating technique.

In 1929, he moved to England and taught there until the 1960s.

Gerschilwer moved back to Switzerland and lived in a hotel in Geneva.

He was elected to the World Figure Skating Hall of Fame in 1976 as part of the inaugural class.