Franz Reindl

Franz Reindl
Date of birth	November 24, 1954
place of birth	Garmisch-Partenkirchen , Germany
size	178 cm
position	striker
Career stations
until 1984	SC Riessersee
1984-1988	SB Rosenheim

Franz Reindl (born November 24, 1954 in Garmisch-Partenkirchen ) is a former German ice hockey player and has been President of the German Ice Hockey Federation since 2014 .

Career

As a player

Reindl came to SC Riessersee in 1963, went through all school and youth teams and played in the first team for the first time in the 1971/72 season . In the following years he was active for the SCR 13 seasons and was one of the top performers of the team during this time. In the 1981/82 season he was together with Erich Kühnhackl with 102 points scored the best points player in the Bundesliga . The 181-time national player won the bronze medal with the German national team at the 1976 Olympic Games and received the silver laurel leaf for it . He was also German champion with Riessersee in 1978 and 1981 and again in 1985 with SB Rosenheim , to which he switched in the summer of 1984. After the end of the 1987/88 season, he ended his active ice hockey career at the age of 33.

Overall, he played 669 times in the ice hockey Bundesliga and scored 423 goals during this time. In the national team, he made 183 appearances and 38 goals until his resignation in 1988. As a player, Franz Reindl took part in nine world championships, three Olympic Games and one Canada Cup .

Career statistics

season	team	league	Sp	Pt	T	A.
1972/73	SC Riessersee	1st BL	32	20th	8th	12
1973/74	SC Riessersee	1st BL	36	20th	10	10
1974/75	SC Riessersee	1st BL	36	24	16	8th
1975/76	SC Riessersee	1st BL	36	35	23	12
1976/77	SC Riessersee	1st BL	48	42	28	14th
1977/78	SC Riessersee	1st BL	46	47	28	19th
1978/79	SC Riessersee	1st BL	50	62	32	30th
1979/80	SC Riessersee	1st BL	48	69	40	29
1980/81	SC Riessersee	1st BL	54	101	56	45
1981/82	SC Riessersee	1st BL	43	102	49	53
1982/83	SC Riessersee	1st BL	31	47	20th	27
1983/84	SC Riessersee	1st BL	46	54	18th	36
1984/85	SB Rosenheim	1st BL	45	78	33	45
1985/86	SB Rosenheim	1st BL	44	63	29	34
1986/87	SB Rosenheim	1st BL	25th	29	16	13
1987/88	SB Rosenheim	1st BL	49	39	17th	22nd
Total career			669	832	423	409

( 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 )

As a trainer and functionary

From the 1988/89 season up to and including 1990/91 Reindl worked as manager and trainer of SC Riessersee in order to lead the club out of bankruptcy again together with Heinz Mehl. The relegation to the third class was avoided in a sporty way.

In 1991 he became assistant to the technical director Fritz Brechenmacher, as well as assistant coach of Luděk Bukač in the national team. A year later he took over the position of sports director at DEB as the successor to Helmut Bauer and also remained co-trainer of the national team and marketing manager at DEB until 1994. From 1995 to 2003 he also took on the duties of administrative director and head of the DEB office. In addition, Franz Reindl was General Manager of the national team from 1996.

In mid-2000, Reindl was also appointed managing director of the DEB Eishockey-Sportgesellschaft and was primarily responsible as general secretary for the organization of the economically and athletically successful men's ice hockey world championship in 2001 in Germany. In 2003, Franz Reindl was DEB general secretary, sports director and marketing manager, with Bodo Lauterjung, member of the executive committee, temporarily taking over administration / personnel / finances (March 2003 to June 2006 and from June 2009).

After Hans Zach's resignation as national coach , Reindl took over this position from May to September 2004 and led the national team during the World Cup of Hockey . In December 2006 he again took over the management of DEB Eishockey-Sportgesellschaft mbH and again acted as Secretary General for the implementation of the 2010 IIHF World Championship in Germany , where he was also in charge of the successful application from 2005.

Franz Reindl is also represented on the committees of the International Ice Hockey Federation of the IIHF and is internationally recognized. Furthermore, he was a member of the IIHF Sport Committee in Zurich from 1998 to 2008 and a member of the IIHF Competition Committee from 2008, also in Zurich. Reindl was also involved in Munich's bid for the 2018 Winter Olympics and was a member of Munich 2018 in the Sports Facilities and Olympic Heritage Commission .

For the DEB, Reindl took part in the following major international events:

• 28 world championships (nine times as a player, three times as assistant coach and 15 times as general manager, in 2017 as president of the organizing committee)
• eight Olympic Games (three times as a player, twice as assistant coach and three times as general manager)
• once Canada Cup (as a player)
• twice World Cup of Hockey (once as General Manager and once as national coach)

He is also President of Team Europe at the World Cup of Hockey 2016 .

Reindl has been President of the DEB since July 2014 and is the successor to Uwe Harnos in this position. On May 19, 2016 he was also elected to the IIHF Council, the board of the International Ice Hockey Federation .

Personal

The trained wholesale and retail salesman is married and has three children.

Web links

• Franz Reindl at rodi-db.de
• Franz Reindl in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Stadt Landshut, Sportchronik 1974-76: ... Reception of the German Olympic team in October with Federal Chancellor Helmut Schmidt in Bonn and award with the silver laurel leaf ...
2. ↑ http://www.iihfworlds2016.com/en/news/council-elected/