Friederike "Fritzi" Burger (6 June 1910 – 16 February 1999) was an Austrian figure skater. She was a two-time Olympic silver medalist (1928, 1932), a four-time World medalist (silver in 1929 and 1932, bronze in 1928 and 1931), the 1930 European champion, and a four-time Austrian national champion (1928–1931).

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Fritzi Burger
Full name	Friederike Burger
Born	(1910-06-06)6 June 1910 Vienna, Austria
Died	16 February 1999(1999-02-16) (aged 88) Bad Gastein, Austria
Figure skating career
Country	Austria
Retired	1934
Medal record Representing  Austria Figure skating: Ladies' singles Olympic Games 1932 Lake Placid Ladies' singles 1928 St. Moritz Ladies' singles World Championships 1929 Budapest Ladies' singles 1932 Montreal Ladies' singles 1928 London Ladies' singles 1931 Berlin Ladies' singles European Championships 1930 Vienna Ladies' singles 1932 Paris Ladies' singles 1931 St. Moritz Ladies' singles 1933 London Ladies' singles

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Burger was born on 6 June 1910 in Vienna.^[1] Her family was Jewish.^[2]

She won the first-ever contested European Championships, held in 1930. Sonja Henie, who held a monopoly in women's figure skating at the time, was not present at this championship and Burger never defeated her in competition. She placed second behind Henie at the 1928 and 1932 Winter Olympics, and in the 1929 and 1932 World Championships.

After the 1932 Olympics, Burger ended her skating career and went to London, where in 1935 she married Shinkichi Nishikawa, a grandson of the Japanese pearl tycoon Kōkichi Mikimoto.^[3] She returned with her husband to Vienna, where she gave birth to her son in the summer of 1937, just before the Anschluss (annexation of Austria by Nazi Germany). She, her husband and her son moved to London in 1938 and a few years later moved to Tokyo, Japan, where Mr. Nishikawa was from.

In the 1990s, living in the United States, Burger was interviewed for several documentaries on the history of figure skating. She joked in a 1994 interview, "I had two husbands. [Sonja Henie] even beat me at that. She had three."^[4] She died on 16 February 1999 in Bad Gastein, Austria.^[1]

• List of select Jewish figure skaters