Gerhard Kießling

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Gerhard Kießling (born June 16, 1922 in Meerane ; † April 7, 2017 in Mittenwald ) was a German ice hockey player , coach and official.

Career

Kießling has been playing ice hockey in Frankenhausen since he was a youngster and, after being nominated for the German youth team, was used in the first team of TV Frankenhausen from 1937.

After the Second World War he was a player-coach at SG Frankenhausen. With Frankenhausen, Kießling was national ice hockey champion of Saxony and eastern zone ice hockey champion in 1949 and champion of the GDR in 1950 . He was the captain of his first international match in 1951 for the GDR team. In addition to studying at the DHfK in Leipzig , after his active career he became a coach of the GDR team. In 1957 he reached fifth place with the GDR team at the ice hockey world championship in Moscow.

In 1957 he fled to the West with his family and his son Udo Kießling and in autumn 1957 he became a coach at Preussen Krefeld , with whom he qualified for the 1958/59 season. In 1958 he became national ice hockey coach in the German Ice Sports Association . During his tenure, he qualified for the 1960 Olympic Games in the USA.

When - for political reasons - he was not taken to the games, he became national roller hockey coach for the next few years .

In 1966 he was again national ice hockey coach in the youth field and in 1971 again coach of the national team . After the team failed to qualify for the 1975 World Cup in Germany, he resigned as national coach.

He then became a trainer and his son became a player at EV Rosenheim , with whom they were promoted to the ice hockey Bundesliga and ensured relegation. In 1976 father and son switched to the Cologne EC and became German champions in 1977 .

After a split in strife from Cologne, Gerhard Kießling briefly returned to the national youth coach before he succeeded Xaver Unsinn as a coach at the Berlin ice-skating club in December 1977 . Then he returned to Cologne and was again German champion. He and his son then moved to Düsseldorfer EG for three years , with whom they were twice runner-up. Then Kießling moved to EV Füssen , with whom he was relegated from the Bundesliga.

1983/84 he was a coach at the ECD Iserlohn , where he achieved relegation in the Bundesliga. He then moved to Austria for EHC Lustenau and reached the play-off semi- finals with the relegated team . He then became a coach at Innsbruck EV , from where he moved back to Lustenau during the current season.

1987/88 he was first manager at SC Riessersee and then coach for the rest of the season. After the fall of the Berlin Wall, he helped set up the ETC Crimmitschau before he stepped in again as a coach at EV Innsbruck and EHC Dynamo Berlin in 1991 .

After 1991 he was no longer active as a coach.

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personal data
SURNAME Kiessling, Gerhard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German ice hockey player, coach and official
DATE OF BIRTH June 16, 1922
PLACE OF BIRTH Meerane , Germany
DATE OF DEATH April 7, 2017
Place of death Mittenwald