Konstantin Harter

Konstantin Harter
Date of birth	1925
place of birth	Davos , Switzerland
date of death	circa July 12, 2013
Place of death	Chur
position	Defender, striker
Shot hand	Left
Career stations
1942-1948	EHC Chur
1948-1955	EHC Arosa

Konstantin Harter (* 1925 in Davos ; † around July 12, 2013 in Chur ) was a Swiss ice hockey player who won the Swiss championship five times in a row with the EHC Arosa .

Career

The multi-sport talented Harter spent his youth in Davos, where he - influenced by the success of the "ni storm" around Bibi Torriani - started ice hockey at HC Davos . After his family moved to Chur in 1937, Konstantin Harter joined the EHC Chur . In December 1948, a request from national player Ueli Poltera moved him to move to the up-and-coming EHC Arosa . As a result, the full-time hard worker took the Arosa cable car from Chur to training on the Obersee ice rink two to three times a week for seven years .

In Arosa he first played as a striker in various positions in the second attack formation. After the arrival of the Canadian player-coach Paul Reinhard in 1950, Harter worked increasingly at his side as a defender together with the so-called Arosa storm around Hans-Martin Trepp , Ueli and Gebi Poltera . With the EHC Arosa, Harter won the Swiss championship five times in a row from 1951 to 1955, before he left the club with Reinhard in 1955 and resigned at the age of 30. In his last season in the decisive final round in Davos, he scored the winning and title-bringing goal to make it 4: 3.

After his active sports career, the trained architect Harter continued his professional career at the ETH Zurich and went into business for himself in Chur. In the following decades, thanks to his good local contacts, he also realized various buildings in Arosa, such as the reconstruction of the burned Tschuggen Grand Hotel in 1970 or the Arosa Bergbahnen building complex at the Weisshornbahn valley station . He remained an independent architect well into old age. It was not until he was 82 that he stepped down, but kept a small office.

Konstantin Harter lived with his wife Gertrud, with whom he had been childless since 1961, most recently in Chur. He died after a short, serious illness at the age of 87. Harter was one of the last ice hockey players to personally experience both the Ni and Arosa storms on the ice.

literature

• Southeastern Switzerland of December 31, 2012, p. 11.
• 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. 72–88.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Die Südostschweiz of July 17, 2013, p. 8.

Web links

• ( Page no longer available , search in web archives: report about Konstantin Harter on ehcarosafans.ch ), accessed on February 24, 2013.
• Konstantin Harter - one of the last of its kind. Accessed February 24, 2013.