Klaus Hirche

This article is about the ice hockey player. For the actor of the same name see Klaus Hirche (actor) .

Klaus Hirche
Date of birth	June 7, 1939
place of birth	White water
Nickname	The black mask
size	180 cm
Weight	83 kg
position	goalkeeper
Career stations
19 ?? - 19 ??	SG Dynamo Weißwasser

Klaus Hirche (born June 7, 1939 in Weißwasser ) is a former German ice hockey goalkeeper and coach .

Career

Klaus Hirche owes his career to a sighting of ice hockey players on the Jahnteich in Weißwasser in 1948 for a pioneer team. During his active playing time, which began in Weißwasser , Hirche played - with the exception of one season as an ice hockey striker - in the position of ice hockey goalkeeper.

After his playing days, he remained connected to ice hockey and began to work as a coach. He coached the SG Dynamo Weißwasser team for four years and won three championship titles during this time. During the two years in which he worked as a coach for the national ice hockey team of the GDR , he took part in two world championships.

After the fall of the Wall, Klaus Hirche stopped working as a trainer and was the team leader of the Weißwasseraner until 2002.

International

For the national ice hockey team of the GDR Klaus Hirche took part as a player in 118 games and was a participant in eight world championships as well as in the Olympic Winter Games in 1968 , he played 43 games and was five times World Cup.

As one of the first goalkeepers he played internationally with a mask . The black paint he chose earned Klaus Hirche the nickname “the black mask” . A Swedish sports reporter coined this name during the 1963 Ice Hockey World Cup .

As coach of the national team, he took part in two other world championships.

Achievements and Awards

Klaus Hirche won eleven championship titles in the GDR as a player and another three as a coach. He was inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame Germany .

Web links

• Klaus Hirche at rodi-db.de

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Sabine Larbig: Hockey legends accompany stadium swan song. In: esw-online.de. Sächsische Zeitung , September 11, 2010, accessed on July 11, 2012 .  
2. ↑ Andreas Friebel: The black mask turns 70. In: www.esw-online.de. Lausitzer Füchse, June 5, 2009, accessed on July 11, 2012 .