Hans Zach

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GermanyGermany  Hans Zach Ice hockey player
Date of birth March 30, 1949
place of birth Bad Toelz , Germany
Nickname Alps volcano
position striker
Career stations
until 1970 EC Bad Toelz
1970-1974 SC Riessersee
1974-1977 Berliner SC
1977-1979 EV Landshut
1979-1984 SB Rosenheim

Hans Zach (born March 30, 1949 in Bad Tölz ) is a former German ice hockey player and coach. The trained master butcher and qualified ice hockey coach was the coach of the German national team from 1999 to 2004 . He is one of the few who have been able to become German champions as a player and coach.

The player

Zach began his career in the youth department at EC Bad Tölz . From the 1967/68 season he was a member of the professional team with which he was active in the then top German division, the Bundesliga . In his first season he scored 21 scorer points in 26 league games. The trained striker stayed in his hometown Bad Tölz for two more years and moved to SC Riessersee within the league in the summer of 1970 . There he was under contract for four seasons. For the 1974/75 season he joined the Berlin ice skating club . After an average first year in Berlin, it increased significantly. In the 1976/77 season he made his final breakthrough and with 54 points was one of the best scorers in the Bundesliga.

Then the management of EV Landshut was able to convince him to go on the ice for EVL. In Landshut, too, Zach was one of the top performers and the best scorers within the team. The 1978/79 season was his best when he scored 60 times in 42 games. After this season he moved to Sportbund Rosenheim , which was one of the most successful German clubs at the time. With the Rosenheimers, Zach was able to achieve the only German championship title of his playing career in 1982 after a final victory over the Mannheim ERC . At the end of the 1983/84 season he ended his active ice hockey career at the age of 35. In total, he completed over 600 first division games and scored over 260 goals.

International

As a national player, he scored 16 goals in 80 international matches. For the national team of the Federal Republic of Germany he took part in the A- World Cup in 1976 , 1977 , 1978 and 1979 , in the B-World Cup in 1969 and in the 1980 Olympic ice hockey tournament.

Career statistics

Regular season Play-offs
season team league Sp T A. Pt SM Sp T A. Pt SM
1967/68 EC Bad Toelz BL 26th 16 5 21st 14th
1968/69 EC Bad Toelz BL 30th 13 6th 19th 22nd
1969/70 EC Bad Toelz BL 35 14th 4th 18th 24
1970/71 SC Riessersee BL 35 12 4th 16 18th
1971/72 SC Riessersee BL 30th 9 4th 13 12
1972/73 SC Riessersee BL 37 17th 20th 37 28
1973/74 SC Riessersee BL 31 10 10 20th 53
1974/75 Berlin ice skating club BL 34 11 7th 18th 25th
1975/76 Berlin ice skating club BL 27 11 11 22nd 44
1976/77 Berlin ice skating club BL 44 26th 28 54 27
1977/78 EV Landshut BL 41 20th 20th 40 48
1978/79 EV Landshut BL 42 27 33 60 40
1979/80 SB Rosenheim BL 40 10 26th 36 38
1980/81 SB Rosenheim BL 40 18th 31 49 38 6th 0 3 3 4th
1981/82 SB Rosenheim BL 43 20th 25th 45 44 7th 2 8th 10 2
1982/83 SB Rosenheim BL 36 11 17th 28 25th 9 3 4th 7th 10
1983/84 SB Rosenheim BL 31 9 13 22nd 23 10 0 3 3 2
Total career 595 254 265 519 533 32 5 18th 23 18th

International

Represented Germany at:

year team event Sp T V Pt SM
1969 Germany WC-B 7th 0 2 2 4th
1976 Germany WC 10 1 0 1 0
1977 Germany WC 10 3 2 5 2
1978 Germany WC 8th 2 1 3 4th
1980 Germany Olympia 5 1 1 2 2
Men overall 40 7th 6th 13 12

( 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 )

The trainer

Club coach

Between 1985 and 1987, Hans Zach was a junior trainer at SB Rosenheim and assistant to junior national trainer Rampf at the German Ice Hockey Federation . In 1987 he completed the course as a qualified ice hockey coach at the Sport University Cologne and was best of the year in 1988. At the same time he trained the EC Ratingen in the major league . Here, as in the following engagement in 1988/90 at SV Bayreuth in the 2nd Bundesliga , he was chosen as the “best coach of the league” before he switched to the German champions Düsseldorfer EG in 1990 as a coach .

With the Düsseldorf team, Zach won the German championship in his first season. In the play-off final, DEG defeated their Rhenish rivals from Cologne with 3-2 wins . Two more championships followed in the next two years. In the 1991/92 season , Zach won the final against his ex-club, SB Rosenheim, and one season later again against Cologne EC. The work in Düsseldorf was interrupted in 1995/96 by a year with the Kassel Huskies , but in 1996/97 Zach was back with the gang at Brehmstrasse in Düsseldorf.

In 1997, Zach tried his luck in Switzerland, but was dismissed from Zürcher SC after just a few months. In the following years he successfully trained the Kassel Huskies again, which he brought into the play-off semi-finals three times in the four seasons. From 2002 to 2006 he trained the Kölner Haie . In the summer of 2006, those responsible for the Hannover Scorpions provided him with a contract. Zach led the Scorpions team in the 2008/09 season after a second place in the table after the main round in the play-off semifinals. This was the most successful season in club history to date. As a result, his contract was extended in 2009 until the end of the 2009/10 season. In the 2009/10 season he won the German championship with the Scorpions as the first German coach in the DEL (and the first German since 1993, also Zach).

On January 1, 2014, Zach returned from his 2010 retirement and temporarily succeeded the dismissed Harold Kreis at Adler Mannheim as head coach . After the Adler's elimination in the quarter-finals of the DEL playoffs 2014 against the Kölner Haie , Zach declared his final retirement when his contract in Mannheim expired.

National coach

In June 1998 Hans Zach became national coach of the DEB selection. He led the German team out of the B-World Cup and reached three World Cup quarter-finals and eighth place at the 2002 Olympic ice hockey tournament in Salt Lake City .

Even though before the start of the 2004 World Cup, Zach had only set the goal of not relegation, criticism of the selection of players and his training style was expressed in the press after the failed quarter-final qualification. This criticism led Zach not to renew his contract. His successor as national coach was after Ernst Höfner took care of the team in the transition period in 2004, when he was American Greg Poss .

Achievements and Awards

Player:

Trainer:

  • 1991 German champion with the Düsseldorfer EG
  • 1992 German champion with the Düsseldorfer EG
  • 1993 German champion with the Düsseldorfer EG
  • 2000 Winner of the B World Cup with the German national team
  • 2010 German champion with the Hannover Scorpions

Literary work

  • Hans Zach: Me, the alpine volcano. The autobiography of the national ice hockey coach. Pfaffenweiler: WeroPress, 2003. ISBN 3-9808049-8-4 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ DEL: Hans Zach new head coach at Adler Mannheim. ( Memento of the original from January 2, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. In: eishockey-24.de . January 1, 2014, accessed January 1, 2014.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.eishockey-24.de
  2. ↑ Hans Zach: "I will never work as a trainer again" ( Memento of the original from July 13, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. In: suedkurier.de . June 9, 2014, accessed June 19, 2014. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.suedkurier.de
personal data
SURNAME Zach, Hans
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German ice hockey coach
DATE OF BIRTH March 30, 1949
PLACE OF BIRTH Bad Toelz , Germany