Bruno Guttowski

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Bruno Guttowski (born November 8, 1924 in Rastenburg ; † July 4, 1977 in Mannheim ) was a German ice hockey player and coach.

Life

The defender initially played for Krefelder EV (KEV). In the 1951/52 season , the KEV reached first place together with the SC Riessersee . The Krefeld team won the decider for the German championship in Mannheim's Friedrichsparkstadion 6: 4. The following year Guttowski was third with the KEV and runner-up in 1953/54 and 1954/55 .

Then Guttowski went to the Mannheim ERC (MERC). Because of the change he was initially not eligible to play. He acted as a trainer in 1955/56 and made it to the top league with the team . There he played with the MERC until 1964. He was captain and from 1959 to 1961 also player-coach. The best placings he achieved with the Mannheimers were two third places in the seasons 1958/59 , where he was also the second best defender in the Bundesliga, and 1962/63 . He scored a total of 71 goals for Mannheim. After a three-year break, he played one more season for Mannheimer SC in the major league in 1967/68 . After the end of his playing career, he was the MERC coach from 1969 to 1972.

In the German national team Guttowski was appointed 58 times, where he hit the gate five times. He took part in the 1953 World Cup , where the German team was runner-up in Switzerland, in 1954 , 1955 and 1959 . He was also at the 1956 Olympic Games when Germany finished sixth in Cortina d'Ampezzo .

Because of his services to German ice hockey, he was inducted into the "Hall of Fame" of the German ice hockey museum. In 2012 the Adler Mannheim , successor to the MERC, honored him by blocking his shirt number and hanging his jersey with the number 12 symbolically under the roof of the SAP Arena .

literature

  • Matthias Fries, Die Adler Mannheim (ed.): 75 years of the ice hockey city Mannheim . Catalog for the exhibition in the Reiss-Engelhorn-Museen 2012, p. 24/25
  • Jan Kotulla: Fans celebrate MERC legends . Mannheimer Morgen November 24, 2012, p. 10

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ RODI-DB - The German Hockey database. Retrieved June 30, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Guttowski, Bruno
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German ice hockey player and coach
DATE OF BIRTH November 8, 1924
PLACE OF BIRTH Rastenburg
DATE OF DEATH 4th July 1977
Place of death Mannheim