Gerd Truntschka

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GermanyGermany  Gerd Truntschka Ice hockey player
Date of birth September 10, 1958
place of birth Landshut , Germany
position center
Draft
NHL Amateur Draft 1978 , 12th lap, 200th position
St. Louis Blues
Career stations
1975-1979 EV Landshut
1979-1989 Cologne EC
1989-1992 Düsseldorfer EG
1992-1994 EC Hedos Munich

Gerd Truntschka (born September 10, 1958 in Landshut ), a former ice hockey player , is a German entrepreneur . During his playing days, he was able to book a record number of 943 assists, was five times player of the year (also a record) and is widely regarded as one of the best German players in history.

Ice hockey career

The center forward Gerd Truntschka was considered one of the technically best German players during his playing days and, together with his strike partner Dieter Hegen , formed one of the most successful player duos in German ice hockey for many years from 1986. In this duo, Center Truntschka mostly provided the templates that Hegen turned into goals. In the 1978 NHL Amateur Draft , Truntschka was pulled in 200th position by the St. Louis Blues .

Truntschka played from the 1975/1976 season to 1978/1979 for his home club EV Landshut . Between 1979/1980 and 1988/1989 he played for the Cologne EC . With the Cologne EC, Truntschka was German ice hockey champion four times and Bundesliga top scorer twice. Together with Hegen, Trunschka moved to Düsseldorfer EG at the beginning of the 1989/1990 ice hockey season and played there until the 1991/1992 season . Here he won three championship titles. He then played for EC Hedos Munich for two years . There Truntschka ended his career after the 1993/1994 season with his eighth championship title.

Gerd Truntschka played a total of 858 first division games (including playoffs) and 215 games in the German national team . In the Bundesliga he scored 1,420 points and thus the second most points after Erich Kühnhackl , who only has eight points more. In terms of assists, nobody in Germany was better than Gerd Truntschka, where he scored 943 assists. In addition to the eight championship titles, he was five times player of the year and two-time Bundesliga scorer king.

In the German national ice hockey team - where he was the team captain for many years - Truntschka scored 51 goals in 215 games. He was a member of the All-Star Team of the 1987 World Cup .

After his resignation, Truntschka withdrew completely from ice hockey and disappeared from the public except for occasional participation in games of the traditional EV Landshut team, which was organized as a hobby.

Achievements and Awards

statistics

season team league Games Gates Assists Points Penalty minutes
1975/1976 EV Landshut 1st BL 23 12 6th 18th 8th
1976/1977 EV Landshut 1st BL 46 33 25th 58 36
1977/1978 EV Landshut 1st BL 35 19th 13 32 34
1978/1979 EV Landshut 1st BL 49 52 54 106 49
1979/1980 Cologne Sharks 1st BL 44 38 45 83 84
1980/1981 Cologne Sharks 1st BL 50 26th 58 84 85
1981/1982 Cologne Sharks 1st BL 44 40 59 99 59
1982/1983 Cologne Sharks 1st BL 30th 17th 40 57 18th
1983/1984 Cologne Sharks 1st BL 42 22nd 57 79 61
1984/1985 Cologne Sharks 1st BL 36 22nd 35 57 37
1985/1986 Cologne Sharks 1st BL 35 14th 54 68 24
1986/1987 Cologne Sharks 1st BL 36 9 37 46 43
1987/1988 Cologne Sharks 1st BL 35 21st 48 69 18th
1988/1989 Cologne Sharks 1st BL 33 25th 49 74 36
1989/1990 Düsseldorfer EG 1st BL 36 9 40 49 60
1990/1991 Düsseldorfer EG 1st BL 44 19th 63 82 40
1991/1992 Düsseldorfer EG 1st BL 43 18th 67 85 53
1992/1993 Hedos Munich 1st BL 4th 0 3 3 2
1993/1994 Hedos Munich 1st BL 40 11 33 44 49

Career as an entrepreneur

As early as the early 1980s, the Truntschka was concerned with targeted nutrition and its influence on performance, the immune system (illness means training failure) and concentration. After retiring from professional sport in 1994, he worked with nutritionists to develop a vital substance concentrate from around 70 foods based on fruit, vegetables and herbs as well as vegetable oils as a dietary supplement . In 1999 he founded the company LaVita for the production and marketing of the product of the same name and since then, together with his wife, has been running the family company based in Kumhausen (Lower Bavaria) .

Experts oppose the use of LaVita - like other dietary supplements - that it is usually unnecessary in a balanced diet, which also includes fruit and vegetables, and only recommend dietary supplements in certain cases. The concentration of the vitamins and minerals contained in LaVita is in some cases far above the European and American reference values ​​for the daily intake of vital substances.

Familiar

His younger brother Bernd was also a professional ice hockey player and national player and played with him and "Didi" Hegen at the Düsseldorfer EG in a storm series. His nephew Nico Krämmer is also an ice hockey player.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ice Hockey News from March 12, 2019, page 9
  2. ↑ Gerd Truntschka in portrait . Isar TV, March 17, 2016
  3. ↑ The Food Captain . FOCUS Magazin, No. 52, 2017
  4. ↑ District Administrator Dreier visits the company LaVita in Kumhausen , Landshut district, October 21, 2014
  5. ↑ Healthier with LaVita? Medizin-Transparent.at (Danube University Krems and Cochrane Austria), September 17, 2015, last updated on September 14, 2018
  6. ↑ In Focus: LaVita Vital Substance Concentrate, Healthy Eating, bitfest GmbH, Stuttgart, June 1, 2018
personal data
SURNAME Truntschka, Gerd
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German ice hockey player
DATE OF BIRTH September 10, 1958
PLACE OF BIRTH Landshut