Dieter Willmann (ice hockey player)

Dieter Willmann
Date of birth	4th January 1963
place of birth	Freiburg im Breisgau , Germany
size	180 cm
Weight	82 kg
position	striker
Career stations
1980-1984	EHC Freiburg
1984-1985	SV Bayreuth
1985	EC Bad Nauheim
1985-1989	Schwenninger ERC
1989-1990	Düsseldorfer EG
1990-1995	Mannheim ERC

Dieter Willmann (born January 4, 1963 in Freiburg im Breisgau ) is a former German ice hockey player who played in the Bundesliga for the EHC Freiburg , the Schwenninger ERC , the Düsseldorfer EG and the Mannheim ERC .

Player career

Willmann began his career at the age of 14 with the Freiburg team, for whom he made his first appearances in the second division in the 1980/81 season . With the EHC, Willmann rose to the ice hockey Bundesliga in 1981 and 1983 , via SV Bayreuth and EC Bad Nauheim he finally moved to Schwenninger ERC during the 1985/86 season , for which he was on the ice in the 1st Bundesliga until 1989 was standing. After one and a half years with Düsseldorfer EG, with which he became German champion in 1990 , Willmann moved to Mannheim ERC. After the founding of the DEL , the striker played for another year for the newly outsourced professional team of the MERC, the Adler Mannheim , before ending his professional career.

Dieter Willmann became the first DEB cup winner with the ERC Freiburg. Special moments in his career were his participation in the Spengler Cup in Davos with the Mannheim ERC and his goal at the "Epson Cup 1990" in Düsseldorf when Willmann scored a goal against the St. Louis Blues .

International

For the German national ice hockey team , Dieter Willmann played the 1990 World Cup , in which the team finished seventh. This made him the first ice hockey world championship participant born in Freiburg.

Career statistics

				Regular season						Play-offs
season	team	league		Sp	T	V	Pt	SM		Sp	T	V	Pt	SM
1980/81	ERC Freiburg	2nd BL		22nd	8th	10	18th	10
1981/82	ERC Freiburg	1st BL		29	1	3	4th	2		-	-	-	-	-
1982/83	ERC Freiburg	2nd BL		39	19th	21st	40	20th
1983/84	ERC Freiburg	1st BL		36	6th	5	11	2
1984/85	SV Bayreuth	2nd BL		35	30th	17th	47	20th
1985/86	EC Bad Nauheim	2nd BL		29	19th	29	48	28
1985/86	Schwenninger ERC	1st BL		13	0	4th	4th	8th
1986/87	Schwenninger ERC	1st BL		39	19th	25th	44	32
1987/88	Schwenninger ERC	1st BL		39	21st	28	49	17th
1988/89	Schwenninger ERC	1st BL		36	11	31	42	16		3	1	3	4th	2
1989/90	Düsseldorfer EG	1st BL		36	8th	13	21st	11		11	5	9	14th	9
1990/91	Düsseldorfer EG	1st BL		21st	4th	7th	11	4th		-	-	-	-	-
1990/91	Mannheim ERC	1st BL		17th	11	10	21st	12		-	-	-	-	-
1991/92	Mannheim ERC	1st BL		44	11	33	44	14th
1992/93	Mannheim ERC	1st BL		42	12	25th	37	16
1993/94	Mannheim ERC	1st BL		44	7th	9	16	22nd
1994/95	Adler Mannheim	DEL		35	2	3	5	2		8th	2	1	3	8th
2. Bundesliga overall				125	76	77	153	78
1st Bundesliga overall				396	111	193	304	156		14th	6th	12	18th	11
DEL total				35	2	3	5	2		8th	2	1	3	8th

( Legend for player statistics: Sp or GP = games played; T or G = goals scored; V or A = assists scored ; Pkt or Pts = scorer points scored ; SM or PIM = penalty minutes received ; +/− = plus / minus balance; PP = overpaid goals scored ; SH = underpaid goals scored ; GW = winning goals scored; ¹  play-downs / relegation )

Web links

• Dieter Willmann at rodi-db.de
• Dieter Willmann at eliteprospects.com (English)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Munzinger archive, Ravensburg: Dieter Willmann - Munzinger biography. In: munzinger.de. Retrieved March 22, 2016 . 
2. ↑ 1990/91 Epson Cup. (No longer available online.) In: eishockeyblog.ch. September 7, 1990, archived from the original on March 25, 2016 ; accessed on March 22, 2016 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
3. ^ Matthias Konzok: Ice hockey: Puck hunter: Overview: Ice hockey national players from Freiburg. In: badische-zeitung.de. February 13, 2015, accessed March 22, 2016 .