Richard Schütz

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Richard Schütz (born January 31, 1967 in Krefeld ) is a former German ice hockey referee . He was a long member of the GSC Moers .

From around 1981 Schütz directed ice hockey games . From 1995 he was also active in Germany's highest league, the DEL . Around 2000 games took place under his leadership, including over 500 DEL games and almost 200 international appearances. As one of two DEL referees, Schütz took part in the Referee Exchange Program of the IIHF from 2004 , so that he also led games in the SM-liiga (Finland), the Czech Extra League , the Swiss National League A , the Russian Super League and the Swedish Elite Series .

His career highlight was leading the final of the 2006 World Cup in Latvia, after he had already been allowed to whistle a semi-final there. For a final game in the DEL Schütz was assigned for the first time in the 2006/2007 season.

Schütz is an amateur referee, professionally he works as a sales manager for a large German electrical company. For the 2006/07 DEL season , the league hired two new professional referees, but Schütz, who was one of the favorites for this position, declined.

In 2014 he finished his work as a referee and was inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame Germany in 2015 .

Appearances in A-world championships

WM place Number of
games		 Games
2004 Prague / Ostrava, Czech Republic 6th FIN-UKR, SVK-FIN, DEN-SWE (preliminary round)
LAT-AUT (intermediate round )
UKR-FRA (relegation round)
CAN-FIN (quarter-finals)
2005 Vienna / Innsbruck, Austria 5 LAT-CAN, FIN-UKR, RUS-BLR (preliminary round)
SWE-USA, SWE-LAT (intermediate round )
2006 Riga, Latvia 7th CZE-SLO, NOR-DEN (preliminary round)
RUS-UKR, BLR-UKR, CAN-CZE (intermediate round)
FIN-CZE (semifinals)
SWE-CZE (final)
2007 Moscow, Russia 4th RUS-DEN, SUI-ITA (preliminary round)
RUS-ITA (intermediate round )
LAT-AUT (relegation round)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Constant stress: When the referee breaks with his hobby. In: welt.de . November 15, 2011, accessed August 30, 2018 .
  2. ↑ a b c Sven Felski and Richard Schütz in the future in the hall of fame of German ice hockey. In: eishockeynews.de. March 15, 2015, accessed August 30, 2018 .
  3. ↑ DEL continues to participate in the Referee Exchange program. In: hockeyweb.de. July 20, 2006, accessed August 30, 2018 .
  4. ↑ Sven Felski and Richard Schütz new in the Hall of Fame of German ice hockey. In: eishockeymuseum.de. March 9, 2015, accessed August 30, 2018 .
  5. ↑ Richard Schütz leads the top game. In: eishockey-magazin.de. February 15, 2014, accessed August 30, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Schütz, Richard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German ice hockey referee
DATE OF BIRTH January 31, 1967
PLACE OF BIRTH Krefeld