Hartmut Nickel

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Germany Democratic Republic 1949GDR  Hartmut Nickel Ice hockey player
Date of birth November 16, 1944
place of birth Weißwasser , Germany
date of death June 27, 2019
position striker
Career stations
until 1963 SG Dynamo Weißwasser
1963-1974 SC Dynamo Berlin

Hartmut Nickel (born November 16, 1944 in Weißwasser ; † June 27, 2019 ) was a German ice hockey player (striker) and coach and a member of the Hockey Hall of Fame Germany . During his active playing career he played for SG Dynamo Weißwasser and SC Dynamo Berlin . After the end of his career as a player, he worked as head coach of the Eisbären Berlin and assistant coach of the GDR national team. After 51 years of membership in the club, Nickel ended his coaching work for the polar bears in 2014. After his death, the Eisbären Berlin fan curve in the Mercedes-Benz Arena was named Hartmut Nickel curve for the 2019/20 season.

Career

player

Hartmut Nickel (right) in the international match against Norway in 1974

He went through all age groups of the youth departments of SG Dynamo Weißwasser . In 1963, those responsible at SC Dynamo Berlin invited him to a trial training session in Berlin. Nickel was convincing and decided to leave his home country at the age of 19 and to pursue ice hockey in Berlin from now on . By 1974 he had scored 70 goals in 113 league games and contributed 47 assists. He was three times GDR champion (1966, 1967, 1968) with SC Dynamo Berlin.

Hartmut Nickel wore the GDR jersey 45 times at world championships (A and B groups) and the Olympic Games ; during this time he scored twelve goals and twelve assists.

Trainer

In 1974 he ended his playing career and became a junior coach at SC Dynamo Berlin . In 1976 Joachim Ziesche brought him to the 1st team as an assistant coach. Up until the 1987/88 season, Nickel and Ziesche formed the coaching team for SC Dynamo Berlin. For the two seasons 1988/89 and 1989/90 he was the sole head coach, since Joachim Ziesche was now primarily active for the national team of the GDR . From 1980 to 1989, in addition to his assistant coaching work in the club, together with Ziesche, he was also responsible for the GDR selection. At the last B-World Cup participation of the GDR in the spring of 1990 in Megève , he made his debut as head coach. Together with the two Weißwasserans Rüdiger Noack and Roland Herzig , Nickel formed an equal trio in the gang. After the fall of the Berlin Wall, he coached the club from the east of the reunified Berlin, now playing under the name EHC Dynamo Berlin . In the 1990/91 season he stepped back into the second tier after sporting failures and became assistant coach to Lorenz Funk and Gerhard Kießling . In the 1991/92 season, Nickel was back with the gang as head coach with the goal of "immediate resurgence". Nickel achieved this right away and the Berliners were the first team to achieve this feat.

In the 1992/93 season Hartmut Nickel was released on December 8, 1992 (27th matchday) and replaced by Andy Murray . Murray took Nickel behind the gang as an assistant coach. In 1993, Nickel terminated his contract with Eisbären Berlin and signed on for the next three years at EC Hannover in the Bundesliga. For the 1996/97 season, Nickel returned to Berlin-Hohenschönhausen and took over the position of junior head coach. In 1998 he returned to the gang as assistant coach to Peter-John Lee . For the 2000/01 season, Nickel temporarily took over administrative tasks at the DEL club Eisbären Berlin. From November 2000, Nickel was back as an assistant coach behind the gang, first he assisted Uli Egen , later after his dismissal he remained the second man behind the gang, his boss was now Pierre Pagé . Nickel also remained as assistant coach under the polar bears' next coach, Don Jackson . On August 13, 2014, Nickel ended his coaching career with Eisbären Berlin after more than 40 years. This step had been planned for a long time and was prepared with the involvement of Stefan Ustorf as the new sports director.

Hartmut Nickel is a member of the Hockey Hall of Fame Germany .

literature

  • André Haase, Michael Lachmann, Matthias Mader et al .: Wellblechpalastgeschichte (s) - the slightly different chronicle of the EHC Eisbären Berlin . IP Verlag, Berlin 1997, ISBN 3-931624-06-4 .
  • André Haase, Michael Lachmann, Matthias Mader et al .: The best second of all time - Yearbook of the EHC Eisbären Berlin 1998/99 . IP Verlag, Berlin 1998, ISBN 3-931624-09-9 .
  • Michael Lachmann, Matthias Mader, Sven Wreh et al .: More corrugated iron palace stories - the somewhat different chronicle of the EHC Eisbären Berlin . IP Verlag, Berlin 2004, ISBN 3-931624-24-2 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Olejnik: "We trainers are only fair game!" In: Sport-Bild , January 27, 1993, p. 40f.
  2. ^ Jörg Leopold: Eisbären Berlin: Co-trainer Hartmut Nickel ends. In: Der Tagesspiegel . August 13, 2014, accessed August 14, 2014 .
personal data
SURNAME Nickel, Hartmut
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German ice hockey player and coach
DATE OF BIRTH November 16, 1944
PLACE OF BIRTH Weißwasser , Germany
DATE OF DEATH June 27, 2019