Heinz Weisenbach

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GermanyGermany  Heinz Weisenbach Ice hockey player
Date of birth August 30, 1945
place of birth Fuessen , Germany
date of death December 9, 2018
Place of death Fuessen , Germany
size 178 cm
Weight 73 kg
position
Career stations
until 1975 EV Füssen

Heinz Weisenbach (born August 30, 1945 in Füssen ; † December 9, 2018 ibid) was a German ice hockey player and coach who played for EV Füssen in the ice hockey Bundesliga from 1964 to 1975 and who as a coach played a significant role in that numerous German Canadians came into the Bundesliga.

Career

If you were born in Füssen in the post-war period and were athletically talented, you could hardly avoid an ice hockey career. This was also the case with Heinz Weisenbach. Talent was sought out at school and he was noticed. He went through all junior national teams and started at the age of 19 in 1964 with EV Füssen in the Bundesliga. There he won the German championship in his first season. He played his first tournament with the German national team at the B World Cup in 1966 in Ljubljana , where he was promoted to the A group. The next year he also took part in the A-WM in Vienna . In 1968 he won his second championship with EV Füssen and took part in the Olympic Games in Grenoble with the national team. After that, a ruptured lung put him out of action and he looked for air changes in South Africa. There he played ice hockey for eight months, including with Peter Rohde from Mannheim . Back in Füssen, the championships in 1971 and 1973 followed, and participation in the 1971 World Cup .

In the Bundesliga, he played 322 games with 89 goals. He played 36 times for Germany and is listed as a goalscorer twice.

After his active career, the trained real estate businessman looked after the DEB offspring for two years until he took over the second division club Mannheimer ERC in 1976 . In the second season he made it to the Bundesliga. In Mannheim they were of the opinion that they could hardly afford a team that was suitable for the Bundesliga. When looking for new players, Weisenbach took a new path that was to have a lasting effect on German ice hockey. Weisenbach flew to Toronto to find players of German origin in Canada who could play as Germans in the Bundesliga. He was overseas for six weeks and brought with him twelve players and numerous contacts. Six of the players signed the MERC, including Harold Kreis , Manfred Wolf , Roy Roedger and Peter Ascherl . Some of the others he discovered found their way to Germany over the next few years. Players like Karl Friesen , Mike Schmidt , George Fritz and Ralph Krueger owe German ice hockey to its action. In the second Bundesliga year, the Mannheim ERC became champions in 1980. He then left Mannheim and switched to EC in Cologne . This was followed by coaching positions at Düsseldorfer EG , in Austria at VEU Feldkirch , at his home club EV Füssen and again at Mannheim ERC in the playoffs of the 1989/90 season.

In 1990 he took over the management of EV Füssen for two years.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Obituary notice. In: trauer-im-allgaeu.de. December 17, 2018, accessed January 9, 2019 .
  2. ↑ Eagles mourn Heinz Weisenbach. Accessed December 14, 2018 (German).
personal data
SURNAME Weisenbach, Heinz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German ice hockey player and coach
DATE OF BIRTH August 30, 1945
PLACE OF BIRTH Feet
DATE OF DEATH December 9, 2018
Place of death Feet