Hanggi Boller

Heinrich Boller
Date of birth	September 6, 1921
place of birth	Zurich , Switzerland
date of death	June 30, 2007
Place of death	Zurich , Switzerland
Nickname	Hanggi
position	defender
Career stations
1940-1949	Zurich ice skating club
1949-1959	Grasshopper Club Zurich

Hanggi Boller (born September 6, 1921 in Zurich as Heinrich Boller ; † June 30, 2007 there ) was a Swiss ice hockey player .

Life

Boller was considered the top Swiss defender of natural ice drinks and one of the last representatives of a large generation of players.

He played between 1940 and 1949 for the Zurich Ice Skating Club (today: ZSC Lions ) and from 1950 to 1959 for the ice hockey section of the Grasshopper Club Zurich (today: GCK Lions ). He had 55 appearances in the Swiss national ice hockey team . Hanggi Boller celebrated his greatest successes with the national ice hockey team, which won bronze at the 1948 Winter Olympics in St. Moritz . At club level, he became Swiss champion with Zürcher SC in 1949 and won the Spengler Cup . Between 1953 and 1958 he was the Swiss national coach.

He was the trainer of the Zurich Grasshoppers; as section president he won the Swiss championship in 1965/66 with the GCZ.

Hanggi Boller was a member of the board of the Swiss Ice Hockey Association for many years , later an honorary member of the Swiss Ice Hockey Association. In 1974 he was the founding president of the “Swiss Ice Hockey Friends”, where he was later made honorary president. He was an honorary member of the Zurich Cantonal Association for Sport (ZKS).

Web links

• "Hanggi Boller died" ( Memento from February 5, 2008 in the Internet Archive )
• Hanggi Boller in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )

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1. ↑ “Hanggi Boller died” , Hockey News July 3, 2007