Heini Lohrer

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SwitzerlandSwitzerland  Heini Lohrer Ice hockey player
Date of birth June 29, 1918
place of birth Arosa , Switzerland
date of death December 12, 2011
Place of death Oberengstringen , Switzerland
position center
Shot hand Left
Career stations
1924-1934 EHC Arosa
1934-1953 Zurich SC

Heinrich "Heini" Lohrer (born June 29, 1918 in Arosa ; † December 12, 2011 in Oberengstringen ) was a Swiss ice hockey player . During his career he won the bronze medal at the Winter Olympics in St. Moritz in 1948 and the title at the European Ice Hockey Championships in 1939 . He also won two Swiss championship titles with the Zürcher SC .

Career

Heini Lohrer, who grew up in Arosa right next to the Obersee ice rink, learned to play ice hockey together with his brothers Werner and Karl at EHC Arosa . In 1934, at the age of 16, he moved to Zurich for a commercial apprenticeship and continued his sports career at the Zürcher Schlittschuhclub (ZSC), where he formed a legendary “er” storm from 1937 with the two brothers Charly and Herbert Kessler and later Fredy Bieler . His talent on the ice has been compared to that of «Bibi» Torriani . Speed ​​and technology made him the engine of the ZSC and one of the big players in the national team on the international stage. He scored his first international goal at the age of 18, whereupon his mother sent him a whole roast chicken to Zurich as recognition.

Lohrer played a total of 74 international matches and scored 64 goals. In the national team, too, he mostly played with the Kessler brothers in an assault row, and although this formation mainly had to perform defensive tasks internationally, the trio scored 95 goals in a total of 228 international matches. In 1939 he became European champion with Switzerland and in 1948 he helped a European team to win the first victory against Canada (8: 5) in Basel , where he lost several teeth.

Swiss national ice hockey team, ice hockey world championship 1937 in London
1937, Swiss national ice hockey team

In the same year he played the Olympic ice hockey tournament in St. Moritz , where the Swiss team reached third place and where his older brother Werner also took part as a defender. With the ZSC he became Swiss champion in 1936 and 1949 and won the Spengler Cup in 1944 and 1945 . In 1950 Lohrer saw the ZSC move from the Dolder ice rink to the Hallenstadion . In the later phase of his career, the players at his side were Otto Schubiger , Heinz Hinterkircher or Walter Guggenbühl . In between he was in charge of the Young Sprinters Hockey Club .

Heini Lohrer resigned from active ice hockey in 1953. With ZSC's storm colleague Fredy Bieler, he then moved to the management of the calculating machine factory Precisa AG. For some time he organized the ZSC preseason tournament under their company name. In his free time his passion was curling and golf. Lohrer was the father of five daughters.

Achievements and Awards

International

  • Silver medal at the European Championship
  • Gold medal at the European Championship
  • Bronze medal at the world championship
  • Silver medal at the European Championship

literature

  • Southeastern Switzerland from December 23, 2011.
  • Elmar Brunner: 70 years of EHC Arosa - A village makes Swiss sports history , self-published by F&L Planungen AG / Store Line AG, Chur 1994, pp. 47, 57, 62.

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personal data
SURNAME Lohrer, Heini
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Lohrer, Heinrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss ice hockey player
DATE OF BIRTH June 29, 1918
PLACE OF BIRTH Arosa
DATE OF DEATH December 12, 2011
Place of death Oberengstringen