What is Barbara Niedernhuber doing today?
Barbara Niedernhuber has been head of the Mobile Control and Surveillance Unit of the Munich Federal Police Directorate since 2022.

Berchtesgaden (FIL/23 Jul.2024) The Mobile Control and Surveillance Unit of the Munich Federal Police Directorate (MKÜ) is the only German MKÜ unit with a female head. First Chief Superintendent Barbara Niedernhuber is making a career for herself - and not just in the sport of luge.
Two-time Olympic silver medalist (1998 and 2002) Barbara Niedernhuber from Germany ended her career as a luge athlete in September 2006 at the age of 32 and started her professional career from police master to police commissioner with the German Federal Police. To do this, Niedernhuber had to spend another three years at the Federal Police Academy in Lübeck. After successfully completing her career training for the senior police service in 2009, the newly qualified police commissioner was deployed in various police stations and a wide range of tasks within the Federal Police.
Among other things, she taught operational law as a specialist teacher, successfully led the career training of young competitive athletes at the Bad Endorf Federal Police Sports School and proved herself as a rigorous examiner in career examinations for the intermediate police civil service.

In 2017, Barbara Niedernhuber moved from teaching to the development team at the newly established Freilassing Federal Police Station and was appointed deputy team leader at the start of operations. This was followed by a two-year assignment in the operational area of the staff of the Federal Police Directorate in Munich as a border police officer. Back at her home station in Freilassing in the Berchtesgaden area, she was successfully employed as a duty group leader and subsequently as Head of Operations/Evaluation at the Freilassing Federal Police Station.
September 14, 2022 marks a special milestone in her career: The President of the Munich Federal Police Directorate put her in charge of the Munich Directorate's Mobile Control and Surveillance Unit (MKÜ). With eight operational platoons and almost 270 employees, this is the largest of the eight MKÜ units of the Federal Police nationwide.

The MKÜ is the “fire department” of the Munich Federal Police Directorate and guarantees the necessary flexibility to deal with everyday situations in all areas of responsibility. The task of the MKÜ includes the event-related support of the regular service of the Federal Police inspectorates in the Munich directorate area at recognized hot spots, in emergency situations and at special peak times in the areas of border police, aviation security and railroad police. The MKÜ task forces can also be deployed as a closed unit or sub-unit to deal with special situations. Examples include international sporting events, a NATO summit or the Oktoberfest in Munich).
 

The sporting career of Barbara Niedernhuber:

Barbara Niedernhuber is a two times Olympic silver medalist from Nagano 1998 and Salt Lake City 2002, overall winner of the 2004/2005 Luge World Cup and four-time World Championship runner-up. On December 5, 1997, Barbara Niedernhuber laid the foundation for the German women's luge team's winning streak, which lasted until 2019, with the first of her five World Cup victories. Only after 13 years and 106 uninterrupted World Cup victories did the Canadian Alex Gough end the unparalleled winning streak of the German Luge Ladies.

photos: BuPol, Dietmar Reker