Claude Seidler

Claude Seidler (born March 7, 1947 ) is a former executive referee of the German Hockey Association (DHB) and was a referee in the Hockey Bundesliga from 1972 to 1993 as well as an international referee with assignments at World Championships and Summer Olympics . The trained banker Claude Seidler is now retired.

Claude Seidler was active at HC Heidelberg and played in goal there for many years. In addition, he began his career as a hockey referee and was used from 1972 in the newly introduced Bundesliga. At the age of 25, he was the youngest Bundesliga impartial. Seidler quickly managed to get international assignments. He led more than 100 international games and was nominated for the 1988 Summer Olympics , 1992 and for the 1990 World Cup.

In 1993 Seidler resigned as referee and took responsibility for an alleged mistake in the semifinals of the German championship. In the 7-meter shooting, contrary to the rules of the game, he did not allow the order of the teams to be changed after five shooters. Later it turned out that this was not a mistake by the referee, but a mistake by the sports warden responsible at the time, who had failed to publish the change in the game rules.

Until 1993, Seidler was also a junior referee assistant to the German Hockey Association and shortly before his resignation, he handed over this position to the then 22-year-old Bundesliga referee Jan-Jochen Rommel . In 2001, after a break of almost 10 years, Seidler was appointed honorary board referee by the German Hockey Association . He has the task of transferring the introduced federal league structural reform to the referee area. In 2005, Seidler again handed this office over to the now no longer active and now former Bundesliga referee Jan-Jochen Rommel, who still holds it today.

Claude Seidler is married, has two children and lives in Brühl near Heidelberg.

Web links

• German Hockey Association
• Portrait of the German Hockey Association
• Referee in the German Hockey Association