Germany men's national ice hockey team
The Coat of arms of Germany is the badge used on the players jerseys | |
Nickname(s) | Träger der Adler (The Eagle Carriers) |
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Association | Deutscher Eishockey-Bund |
General Manager | Stefan Schaidnagel |
Head coach | Marco Sturm |
Assistants |
Tobias Abstreiter Patrick Dallaire Johannes Egelseer Geoff Ward |
Captain | Dennis Seidenberg |
Most games | Udo Kießling (320) |
Most points | Erich Kühnhackl (210) |
Team colors | |
IIHF code | GER |
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Ranking | |
Current IIHF |
8 |
Highest IIHF | 7 (first in 2018) |
Lowest IIHF | 13 (first in 2014) |
First international | |
England (Montreux, Switzerland; 10 January 1910) | |
Biggest win | |
(Ljubljana, Slovenia; 10 February 2000) | |
Biggest defeat | |
(Zug, Switzerland; 7 December 1990) (Prague, Czech Republic; 3 May 2015) | |
IIHF World Championships | |
Appearances | 63 (first in 1930) |
Best result |
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European Championships | |
Appearances | 8 (first in 1910) |
Best result |
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Olympics | |
Appearances | 20 (first in 1928) |
Medals |
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The German men's national ice hockey team first participated in serious international competition at the 1911 European Hockey Championship. When Germany was split after World War II, a separate East Germany national ice hockey team existed until 1990. By 1991, the East German teams and players were merged into the Deutscher Eishockey-Bund association.
History
The team is not considered to be as elite as Canada, the Czech Republic, Finland, Russia, Slovakia, Sweden or the United States, but they are ranked 8th in the world (2017) by the IIHF. Since re-unification, their best recent results include finishing 6th place at the 2003 World Championships where they lost a close quarter-final match in overtime to Canada, and 4th at the 2010 World Championships where they lost to Sweden in the bronze medal game. Previously, they finished third in the European Group and qualified for the quarter-finals at the 1996 World Cup after a surprising 7–1 victory against the Czech Republic. In the 1992 Olympics, they lost to Canada 4–3 in an overtime shoot-out in the quarter-finals.
Germany has never won an international competition, and their most recent medal was silver in the 2018 Olympic Winter Games, when they lost to the Olympic Athletes From Russia 4-3 in overtime. It was the first time that Germany had reached the Gold Medal Game at the Winter Olympics. This was their best result, tied with a silver medal at the 1930 World Championships.
There are 25,934 registered players in Germany (0.03% of its population).
Team Germany finished in 4th place at the 2010 IIHF World Championship, their best placement since 1953.
- The German national team at the 2005 World Championship
Competition results
Olympic Games
Totals | ||||
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Games | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
16 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
World Championship
- 1930 – Won silver medal
- 1933 – Finished in 5th place
- 1934 – Won bronze medal
- 1935 – Finished in 9th place
- 1937 – Finished in 4th place
- 1938 – Finished in 4th place
- 1939 – Finished in 5th place
- 1953 – Won silver medal
- 1954 – Finished in 5th place
- 1955 – Finished in 6th place
- 1959 – Finished in 7th place
- 1961 – Finished in 8th place
- 1962 – Finished in 6th place
- 1963 – Finished in 7th place
- 1965 – Finished in 11th place (3rd in "B" Pool)
- 1966 – Finished in 9th place (Won "B" Pool)
- 1967 – Finished in 8th place
- 1969 – Finished in 10th place (4th in "B" Pool)
- 1970 – Finished in 8th place (2nd in "B" Pool)
- 1971 – Finished in 5th place
- 1972 – Finished in 5th place
- 1973 – Finished in 6th place
- 1974 – Finished in 9th place (3rd in "B" Pool)
- 1975 – Finished in 8th place (2nd in "B" Pool)
- 1976 – Finished in 6th place
- 1977 – Finished in 7th place
- 1978 – Finished in 5th place
- 1979 – Finished in 6th place
- 1981 – Finished in 7th place
- 1982 – Finished in 6th place
- 1983 – Finished in 5th place
- 1985 – Finished in 7th place
- 1986 – Finished in 7th place
- 1987 – Finished in 6th place
- 1989 – Finished in 7th place
- 1990 – Finished in 7th place
- 1991 – Finished in 8th place
- 1992 – Finished in 6th place
- 1993 – Finished in 5th place
- 1994 – Finished in 9th place
- 1995 – Finished in 9th place
- 1996 – Finished in 8th place
- 1997 – Finished in 11th place
- 1998 – Finished in 11th place
- 1999 – Finished in 20th place (4th in "B" Pool)
- 2000 – Finished in 17th place (Won "B" Pool)
- 2001 – Finished in 8th place
- 2002 – Finished in 8th place
- 2003 – Finished in 7th place
- 2004 – Finished in 9th place
- 2005 – Finished in 15th place
- 2006 – Finished in 17th place (Won Division I, Group A)
- 2007 – Finished in 9th place
- 2008 – Finished in 10th place
- 2009 – Finished in 15th place
- 2010 – Finished in 4th place
- 2011 – Finished in 7th place
- 2012 – Finished in 12th place
- 2013 – Finished in 9th place
- 2014 – Finished in 14th place
- 2015 – Finished in 10th place
- 2016 – Finished in 7th place
- 2017 – Finished in 8th place
- 2018 – Finished in 11th place
European Championship
Games | GP | W | T | L | GF | GA | Coach | Captain | Finish | Rank |
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3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 17 | 5 | ? | ? | Round-robin | ||
3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 20 | 1 | ? | ? | Round-robin | ||
2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 3 | ? | ? | Round-robin | ||
3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 21 | 16 | ? | ? | Round-robin | ||
2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 3 | ? | ? | Round-robin | ||
1915–1920 | No Championships (World War I). | |||||||||
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5 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 10 | 7 | ? | ? | Round-robin | ||
2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 3 | ? | ? | First Round | 8th | |
6 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 5 | 5 | ? | ? | Final round | 4th |
- 1912 Championship was later annulled because Austria was not a member of the IIHF at the time of the competition.
World Cup of Hockey
Canada Cup
- 1984 – Finished in 6th place
Other Tournaments
- Deutschland Cup:
Gold medal (1995, 1996, 2009, 2010, 2012, 2014, 2015) - Nissan Cup:
Gold medal (1993)
Team
Current roster
Roster for the 2018 IIHF World Championship.[1]
Head coach: Marco Sturm
Number | Position | Name | Height | Weight | Birthdate | Team |
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5 | D | Korbinian Holzer – A | 1.90 m (6 ft 3 in) | 94 kg (207 lb) | February 16, 1988 | |
21 | F | Nico Krämmer | 1.86 m (6 ft 1 in) | 94 kg (207 lb) | October 23, 1992 | |
22 | F | Matthias Plachta – A | 1.88 m (6 ft 2 in) | 100 kg (220 lb) | May 16, 1991 | |
24 | D | Dennis Seidenberg – C | 1.86 m (6 ft 1 in) | 95 kg (209 lb) | July 18, 1981 | |
27 | F | Sebastian Uvira | 1.88 m (6 ft 2 in) | 95 kg (209 lb) | January 26, 1993 | |
29 | F | Leon Draisaitl – A | 1.89 m (6 ft 2 in) | 96 kg (212 lb) | October 21, 1995 | |
31 | G | Niklas Treutle | 1.87 m (6 ft 2 in) | 85 kg (187 lb) | April 29, 1991 | |
32 | D | Oliver Mebus | 2.06 m (6 ft 9 in) | 109 kg (240 lb) | March 30, 1993 | |
35 | G | Mathias Niederberger | 1.80 m (5 ft 11 in) | 80 kg (180 lb) | November 26, 1992 | |
36 | D | Yannic Seidenberg – A | 1.72 m (5 ft 8 in) | 82 kg (181 lb) | January 11, 1984 | |
40 | D | Björn Krupp | 1.91 m (6 ft 3 in) | 95 kg (209 lb) | March 6, 1991 | |
41 | D | Jonas Müller | 1.83 m (6 ft 0 in) | 88 kg (194 lb) | November 19, 1995 | |
42 | F | Yasin Ehliz | 1.77 m (5 ft 10 in) | 84 kg (185 lb) | December 30, 1992 | |
50 | F | Patrick Hager – A | 1.78 m (5 ft 10 in) | 82 kg (181 lb) | September 8, 1988 | |
51 | G | Timo Pielmeier | 1.83 m (6 ft 0 in) | 82 kg (181 lb) | July 7, 1989 | |
58 | F | Markus Eisenschmid | 1.84 m (6 ft 0 in) | 82 kg (181 lb) | January 22, 1995 | |
59 | F | Manuel Wiederer | 1.83 m (6 ft 0 in) | 82 kg (181 lb) | November 21, 1996 | |
61 | F | Mirko Höfflin | 1.83 m (6 ft 0 in) | 80 kg (180 lb) | June 18, 1992 | |
65 | F | Marc Michaelis | 1.77 m (5 ft 10 in) | 79 kg (174 lb) | July 31, 1995 | |
67 | D | Bernhard Ebner | 1.88 m (6 ft 2 in) | 91 kg (201 lb) | September 12, 1990 | |
72 | F | Dominik Kahun | 1.80 m (5 ft 11 in) | 80 kg (180 lb) | July 2, 1995 | |
86 | F | Daniel Pietta | 1.84 m (6 ft 0 in) | 94 kg (207 lb) | December 9, 1986 | |
91 | D | Moritz Müller – A | 1.87 m (6 ft 2 in) | 92 kg (203 lb) | November 19, 1986 | |
92 | F | Marcel Noebels | 1.92 m (6 ft 4 in) | 92 kg (203 lb) | March 14, 1992 | |
95 | F | Frederik Tiffels | 1.85 m (6 ft 1 in) | 91 kg (201 lb) | May 20, 1995 |
Notable players
- Rudi Ball
- Christian Ehrhoff
- Karl Friesen
- Marcel Goc
- Jochen Hecht
- Dieter Hegen
- Udo Kießling
- Olaf Kölzig
- Erich Kühnhackl
- Uwe Krupp (also former head coach)
- Robert Müller
- Helmut de Raaf
- Dennis Seidenberg
- Marco Sturm
- Xaver Unsinn (also former head coach)
See also
References
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