Axel Rauschenbach

German figure skater Axel Rauschenbach started his pairs career with Mandy Wötzel, and they placed eighth at the 1992 Albertville Winter Games. In 1989 and 1990 they were the last pairs champions in the former GDR before German reunification. Also in 1989 they were runners-up at the European Championships. Rauschenbach then partnered Anuschka Gläser and won the German nationals in 1994. That same year they finished 13th at the Lillehammer Winter Olympics. From 1994-96 the pair participated in German professional ice shows.

Rauschenbach started his professional career as a bank clerk, and later studied machine construction, and then law. He specialised in patent law and joined to his father’s law office. Since 2015, Rauschenbach was an European Trademark and Design Attorney. He was at one time married to his team-mate Anett Pötzsch, but they later divorced.