Ernst Höfner (ice hockey player)

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GermanyGermany  Ernst Höfner Ice hockey player
Date of birth September 21, 1957
place of birth Augsburg , Germany
size 179 cm
Weight 78 kg
position Center, left wing
number # 29
Career stations
1974-1979 Augsburg EV
1979-1982 SC Riessersee
1982-1992 Rosenheim Sports Association

Ernst Höfner (born September 21, 1957 in Augsburg ) is a German ice hockey player and coach . Since 1999 he has been the national coach of the German U20 national team and, together with Klaus Merk, co-trainer of the German national ice hockey team .

Player career

Ernst Höfner began his career in the youth team of Augsburg EV and from 1974 was part of the regular squad of the first team that took part in the 2nd Bundesliga ice hockey . In 1976 the club rose to the ice hockey Bundesliga . In the following season, Höfner scored 51 points in 48 games this season, so that he was awarded the Alois Schloder trophy as the best newcomer in the Bundesliga. Despite his achievements, the AEV was relegated to the 2nd Bundesliga. After his home club withdrew for financial reasons in 1979, he did not join a club from the western parts of the country - contrary to the trend at the time - but the SC Riessersee . Together with Vladimír Dzurilla , defenders Ignaz Berndaner and Joachim Reil and his strike partner Franz Reindl , he was one of the top performers of the traditional club with which he won the German championship in 1981 .

From 1982 Ernst Höfner was active for the Rosenheim Sports Association and, along with Karl Friesen, was one of the top performers who led the Sports Association to the top of German ice hockey. Although Höfner was a goal threat, his main focus was always on serving his teammates with templates. Whether with the wingers Rick Bourbonnais and Ernst Adlmaier in the early 1980s, or Franz Reindl and Georg Franz in the middle of the decade or the young players Reemt Pyka and Wolfgang Kummer at the end of his career - Höfner, as a center with his style of play, created enough scoring opportunities that his teammates exploited. Höfner prepared a total of 452 goals during his time at SBR. In addition, Höfner was usually the player who, in tight games or when the team was behind, gave the game a turn and additionally motivated his teammates. He scored many equalizer or winning goals at the last minute as well as several sudden death goals. In 1985 and 1989 Höfner won the German championship with the Rosenheim Sports Association. He was also named Player of the Year in 1985, was awarded the Gustav Jaenecke Cup and was appointed to the Bundesliga All-Star Team.

At the end of his active career in 1992, the Sportbund was downgraded to the 2nd Bundesliga after a final defeat against the Düsseldorfer EG . Höfner played a total of 666 games in the Bundesliga. He scored 376 goals and reached 663 assists, a total of 1039 points scorer. This puts him in sixth place on the Bundesliga scorer list.

International

Höfner's international career began at the U19 European Junior Championship in 1976 , when he was top scorer and top scorer. At the Junior World Championship in 1977 he formed the best assault row of the tournament with Holger Meitinger and Gerd Truntschka and was the best scorer of all participants at the Men's World Championship in Sweden in 1981 and after Meitinger.

He took part in a total of six world championships , but stayed in some of these tournaments below his usual level from the Bundesliga. In 1984 he was part of the German national team at the Canada Cup . He was also a member of two Olympic teams, 1980 in Lake Placid and 1984 in Sarajevo .

After the 1987 World Cup in Vienna, he resigned from the national team in order to be able to regenerate better during the summer breaks. After his serious ankle injury in 1988, he definitely ruled out a return to the national team.

For the German national team, Höfner completed a total of 140 international matches and scored 40 goals.

Achievements and Awards

  • 1985 Player of the Year
  • 1985 All-Star Team of the 1984/85 Bundesliga season
  • 1985 Gustav-Jaenecke-Pokal (top scorer in the Bundesliga 1984/85)
  • 1985 top scorer in the Bundesliga playoffs
  • 1988 top scorer in the Bundesliga playoffs
  • 1989 German champion with SB Rosenheim

Career statistics

National

Regular season Play-offs
season team league Sp T V Pt SM Sp T V Pt SM
1974-75 Augsburg EV 2nd BL 35 24 15th 39 14th
1975-76 Augsburg EV 2nd BL 33 41 29 70 11
1976-77 Augsburg EV 1st BL 48 33 18th 51 15th
1977-78 Augsburg EV 2nd BL
1978-79 Augsburg EV 1st BL 46 26th 26th 52 19th
1979-80 SC Riessersee 1st BL 48 31 46 77 24
1980-81 SC Riessersee 1st BL 44 27 48 75 33 10 10 8th 18th 4th
1981-82 SC Riessersee 1st BL 43 33 64 97 39 2 1 1 2 2
1982-83 SB Rosenheim 1st BL 36 21st 47 68 28 8th 8th 13 21st 4th
1983-84 SB Rosenheim 1st BL 41 23 31 54 33 4th 2 11 13 2
1984-85 SB Rosenheim 1st BL 36 23 51 74 27 9 10 5 15th 4th
1985-86 SB Rosenheim 1st BL 35 17th 39 56 49 9 5 11 16 2
1986-87 SB Rosenheim 1st BL 35 23 35 58 35 9 3 8th 11 10
1987-88 SB Rosenheim 1st BL 35 17th 32 49 47 14th 3 16 19th 9
1988-89 SB Rosenheim 1st BL 3 0 0 0 2 11 6th 8th 14th 20th
1989-90 SB Rosenheim 1st BL 36 20th 39 59 18th 11 4th 15th 19th 7th
1990-91 SB Rosenheim 1st BL 39 17th 53 70 18th 11 3 7th 10 2
1991-92 SB Rosenheim 1st BL 32 6th 25th 31 15th 10 4th 6th 10 6th
1st Bundesliga overall 557 317 554 871 402 109 59 105 164 72

International

Represented Germany at:

year team event Sp T V Pt SM
1976 Germany U19 European Championship 4th 10 2 12 2
1977 Germany U20 World Cup
1980 Germany Olympia 5 2 1 3 -
1981 Germany A-WM 8th 9 5 14th 6th
1982 Germany A-WM 7th 0 1 1 2
1983 Germany A-WM 10 3 1 4th 8th
1984 Germany Olympia 6th 2 2 4th 6th
1984 Germany Canada Cup 5 1 5 6th 4th
1985 Germany A-WM 10 1 5 6th 4th
1986 Germany A-WM 10 2 2 4th 6th
1987 Germany A-WM 10 0 2 2 17th

( 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 )

Coaching career

Immediately after his career as a player, Höfner became head coach of SB Rosenheim, with whom he made promotion to the 1st Bundesliga at the end of the 1992/93 season. A year later, the sports association qualified under his leadership with ninth place in the table for the newly introduced German Ice Hockey League . Höfner remained coach of Rosenheim until the end of the 1995/96 season .

In 1997 he was hired by SC Riessersee as head coach. With a ninth place in the 1st League South , the team he supervised qualified directly for the 1998 Bundesliga . In the following season Höfner was head coach of EC Bad Tölz , which also took part in the Bundesliga. At the same time, Höfner was appointed assistant coach of the German national team by the DEB in 1998 . A year later, on July 1, 1999, he became the full-time national coach of the DEB's youth teams.

In 2000 he initiated the establishment of the German Youth League (DNL) and has been committed to the continuous support of all young national players ever since. In 2007, Höfner founded the initiative "WM 2010 - Chance for German Ice Hockey", which aimed to improve youth work in Germany.

statistics

Main round Playoffs
season team league GC W. L. T OTL Win% result GC W. L. result
1992/93 SB Rosenheim 2nd BL 44 29 10 5 0 0.716 2nd place 9 8th 1 Master , rise
1993/94 SB Rosenheim 1st BL 44 12 27 5 - 0.273 9th place - - - -
1994/95 Starbulls Rosenheim DEL 44 20th 17th 6th 1 0.534 8th place 7th 3 4th Round of 16
1995/96 Starbulls Rosenheim DEL 50 16 25th 6th 3 0.380 13th place 4th 1 3 Round of 16
1997/98 SC Riessersee 1st League South 56 32 21st - 3 0.598 9th place - - - -
1998/99 EC Bad Toelz BL 58 33 20th 0 5 0.612 9th place - - - -

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. a b c Ernst Höfner. duisburgweb.de, accessed on June 9, 2011 .
  2. a b c d e f g h The stars of the SBR - Ernst Höfner. koessl.de, accessed on June 9, 2011 .
  3. a b c d e f Ernst Höfner turns 50. hockeyweb.de, September 20, 2007, accessed on June 9, 2011 .