Franz Csöngei

Franz Csöngei
Date of birth	September 13, 1913
place of birth	Vienna , Austria
position	Defender / Striker
Career stations
1929-1934	HC Währing
1934-1939	EK Engelmann Vienna
1939-1940	Vienna EG
1946-1947	EK Engelmann Vienna

Franz Csöngei (born September 13, 1913 in Vienna ; †) was an Austrian ice hockey player and official.

Career

Franz Csöngei came from the offspring of Stockerau EV and played for HC Währing from 1929 before moving to EK Engelmann Vienna in 1934 . In 1938/39 he achieved the German championship title with the EKE . After the merger of EKE and the Vienna Ice Skating Club in 1939 , he played for the Vienna EG . After the Second World War he played for EK Engelmann from February 1946.

Internationally he played for the Austrian national ice hockey team at the Olympic Winter Games in 1936 and at the ice hockey world championships in 1933 , 1934 and 1938 and after 1938 for the German national ice hockey team , for which he participated in the 1939 ice hockey world championship . After the Second World War he played again for the Austrian national team at the Olympic Winter Games in 1948 and at the Ice Hockey World Championship in 1947 , where he won the bronze medal with the team.

As early as 1929 he took over the function of ice hockey chairman at HC Währing.

Private

His granddaughter Helene Csöngei became champion in the Austrian women's ice hockey Bundesliga in 2002 .

Web links

• Franz Csöngei at eurohockey.com
• Franz Csöngei at eliteprospects.com (English)
• Franz Csöngei in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Franz Csöngei. In: hockeyarchives.info. Accessed March 31, 2020 . 
2. ↑ Austrian National Library -Anno, The Hockey Sport 24 October 1930
3. ↑ Austrian National Library -Anno, World Press February 7th, 1946
4. ↑ ^{a b} Der Standard, November 30, 2010: "Ice hockey under the swastika"
5. ↑ Austrian National Library -Anno, The Hockey Sports 1 January 1929