Kurt Sepp

Kurt Sepp (born September 14, 1935 in Füssen ) is a former German ice hockey player and coach.

Life

The striker initially played for EV Füssen . In 1952/53 Sepp won the German championship with the Füssen without a single defeat . In the following year the title could be repeated and in 1954/55 the hat trick succeeded again without losing a single game. In the following season, at the end of the round, EV Füssen and SC Riessersee took first place. Sepp's team won the play-off 4-2, so that in 1955/56 he was German champion for the fourth time in a row.

Then Sepp went to the Mannheim ERC (MERC). Because of the change, he was initially not eligible to play, from 1957 he then played for ten years for Mannheim. The German championship played the strong Bavarian teams among themselves. The best placements that Kurt Sepp could achieve with the Mannheim ERC were three third places in the seasons 1958/59 , 1962/63 and 1964/65 . By 1967 he had scored 115 goals for the MERC.

Sepp was appointed to the German national team 104 times, scoring 35 goals. He was a participant in the 1953 World Cup , where the German team was runner-up in Switzerland, in 1954 , 1955 , 1959 , 1961 and 1963 . He also represented the German colors at the 1956 Olympic Games in Cortina d'Ampezzo , in 1960 in Squaw Valley , where he was the best German striker, and in 1964 in Innsbruck .

After the end of his playing career, Sepp trained the MERC in the 1967/68 season . Afterwards he was coach of the EHC Basel in Switzerland .

Because of his services to German ice hockey, he was inducted into the "Hall of Fame" of the German ice hockey museum. In 2012, the Adler Mannheim , successor to MERC, honored him by blocking his shirt number and hanging his jersey with the number 10 symbolically under the roof of the SAP Arena .

literature

• Matthias Fries, Die Adler Mannheim (ed.): 75 years of the ice hockey city Mannheim . Catalog for the exhibition in the Reiss-Engelhorn-Museen 2012, p. 26
• Jan Kotulla: Fans celebrate MERC legends . Mannheimer Morgen November 24, 2012, p. 10

Web links

• Kurt Sepp in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• Kurt Sepp at rodi-db.de