Heinz Henschel
Heinz Henschel (born January 27, 1920 in Berlin , † October 21, 2006 in Berlin) was a German ice hockey player and sports official and the youngest banker in Germany.
Henschel played - after helping to build a school team playing on natural ice from 1930 - actively from 1932 to 1956 at several Berlin ice hockey clubs (including the Berlin EV 1898 , LTTC Rot-Weiss Berlin , Berlin ice skating club , SC Brandenburg ).
With the LTTC Rot-Weiss he was German runner- up in 1941 and 1944.
After the Second World War he played a decisive role in the rebuilding of German ice hockey and in 1963, as 1st chairman of the Berlin Ice Sports Association, was one of the founding members of the German Ice Hockey Federation , of which he was a board member and sports warden until 1988. He also participated in the reconstruction of the Berlin Sports Palace and founded the Henschel Bank, which became insolvent in 1951.
He held this position for 25 years and was delegation leader of the German national ice hockey team at ten Olympic Games and 30 world championships . At the 1984 Winter Olympics in Sarajevo , he was Chef de Mission .
Due to his many years of service to German ice hockey and the German ice hockey association, he was u. a. Honorary membership of the German Ice Hockey Federation and he was inducted into the IIHF Hall of Fame in Toronto as in the one for Germany .
Web links
- ( Page no longer available , search in web archives: obituary )
- Obituary at Hockeyweb.de ( Memento from September 27, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
- Munzinger archive, Ravensburg: Heinz Henschel - Munzinger biography. In: munzinger.de. January 27, 1920. Retrieved May 5, 2018 .
- Michael Thomas Röblitz, Ralf Schmiedecke: Berlin-Schöneberg: not just "like once in May" . Sutton Verlag GmbH, 2005, ISBN 3-89702-729-1 , p. 97 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
- Heinz Henschel at legendsofhockey.net
Individual evidence
- ↑ On October 29, 1949, the Sports Association of Greater Berlin was founded. In: tagesspiegel.de . October 27, 1999, accessed January 10, 2020 .
- ↑ SPORTSALAST: Passion questionable . In: Der Spiegel . No. 49 , 1951 ( online ).
- ↑ Ice hockey: THEN AND NOW - Heinz Henschel. In: bz-duisburg.de. Retrieved January 10, 2020 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Henschel, Heinz |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German ice hockey official |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 27, 1920 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Berlin |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 21, 2006 |
| Place of death | Berlin |