German ice hockey association

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German Ice Hockey Federation V.
DEB logo
Founded June 16, 1963
Place of foundation Krefeld
president Franz Reindl
societies 100
Members 20,595
Association headquarters Feet

The German Ice Hockey Federation e. V. (DEB) has been the association of ice hockey clubs responsible for ice hockey in Germany since it was founded on June 16, 1963 . Until the DEB was founded, ice hockey was one of the sports in the German Ice Sports Association . The statutory seat is in Füssen , the office is in Munich .

history

Ice hockey in Germany was originally organized by the German Ice Skating Association, which was founded in 1888 . Within the German Ice Sports Association (DEV), founded in 1949 as a successor, the ice hockey players organized themselves as the German Ice Hockey Association in Krefeld . On March 16, 1962, 18 clubs, mainly of the Oberliga, founded the German Ice Hockey Association as a pure representation of ice hockey. The association's president was Karl Braun from SC Riessersee. It dissolved again in April 1962, as a large part of the Bundesliga clubs remained with DEV. The spin-off, however, meant that the individual sports of the DEV were given more independence.

At the association conference of the DEV in Krefeld on June 16, 1963, the seven regional ice sports associations (Baden, Bavaria, Berlin, Hamburg, Hesse, Lower Saxony, North Rhine-Westphalia) and the clubs of the national, upper and group leagues founded the DEB as a separate association. The other sports in DEV, ice skating, speed skating, ice stock and curling also founded their own associations by 1966. The five professional associations remained united in the DEV until it was dissolved in 2006.

When it was founded, the German Ice Hockey Association took over responsibility for the operation of the national leagues (especially the Bundesliga ) and for the initially West German national team . In addition, he became the West German representative in the International Ice Hockey Federation . After reunification, the DEB and the German Ice Hockey Association of the GDR, which is responsible for ice hockey in the German Democratic Republic , merged on September 11, 1990 as the first sports associations of the two German states.

The association organized the ice hockey Bundesliga until 1994, when the DEL was founded , this task was transferred to the independent operating company of the new professional league. In 1996 the DEB founded the German Inline Hockey League . In 1999, the DEB general meeting decided to transfer the organization of the national game operations, i.e. the 2nd Bundesliga , Oberliga and Regionaliga , to the ESBG , in which the German Ice Hockey Federation is a permanent partner to this day. The Regionalliga was dissolved in 2002. For the 2010/11 season, the organization of the Oberliga was shifted back to the DEB, with the actual organization of the game for the Oberliga Süd and the final round being carried out by the ESBG on behalf of the DEB. The groups West, North and East were at least partially carried out by state ice sports associations.

With the new statutes passed on April 18, 2015, clubs of the professional leagues DEL and the DEL2, founded in 2013, are again members of the DEB. From the 15/16 season onwards, the association is solely responsible for hosting the league. In addition, the DEB is not only responsible for the national teams, but also for promoting young talent.

Organization of international tournaments

So far, the German Ice Hockey Federation or, before 1963, the German Ice Sports Association has hosted an ice hockey world championship. This was the case for the first time in 1955 . The venues were the North Rhine-Westphalian cities of Dortmund , Düsseldorf , Cologne and Krefeld . Group A world champion was Canada , ahead of the defending champion, the Soviet Union . Because of the high number of participants (15 teams were a new record in the post-war period), a B tournament was held in addition to the actual competition, in which a second German team also took part. Could win Italy against Germany B. As part of the World Cup and the European Championship has been played. The best European team in the tournament was the USSR.

At the second World Cup in Germany in 1975, the Soviet Union became world champion for the 14th time. However, the tournament in Düsseldorf and Munich was only very moderately attended. The German national team missed promotion to the A group the year before and so had to compete at the B World Cup in Sapporo / Japan . The gap between the world champion and the rest of the field was so great that the IIHF decided to reform the A group. From 1976 professional players were also allowed. The A group was also increased. Germany was therefore able to rise as second in the B-WM.

At the fifth U-20 Junior A World Championship in 1981 in various Bavarian cities (including Augsburg , Füssen and Oberstdorf ), the Swedes won the title in this age group for the first time.

The 1983 Ice Hockey World Championship took place in Dortmund, Düsseldorf and Munich. After the preliminary round, the first four teams took part in a championship round, the last four in a relegation round. The teams did not take the points in the championship round, but in the relegation round. This should increase the tension in the title question. Germany took part in the relegation round, but won it clearly. Italy had to relegate, the USSR was world champion again, ahead of Czechoslovakia tied on points . The Soviet Union only surrendered one point during the entire World Cup. Czechoslovakia weren't that strong during the preliminary round.

In 1990 the B-WM of the U-20 juniors was played in Bad Tölz and Geretsried .

Ten years after the last, another ice hockey world championship was held in Germany. The games were played in Dortmund and Munich. The four best teams in the preliminary round groups competed against each other in the final round using a knockout system. In the end, Russia was the winner. In the final, defending champion Sweden was 3-1. After play-downs , which also took place in the knockout system, Switzerland was determined to be relegated to the B group. After the quarter-finals against Russia, Germany finished fifth.

A year earlier, the U-20 World Cup took place in Füssen and Kaufbeuren . In 1999 , the first U-18 World Cup was held in the same places.

The 2001 Ice Hockey World Championship took place in Germany again. The games were played in Hanover , Cologne and Nuremberg . From 2001 onwards the different groups were named differently, so the A-group simply became the World Championship . From this year there was also no longer just one, but two relegated teams and therefore two groups in Division I (B group). Germany reached the quarter-finals, but lost there against the eventual finalists Finland . These were subject to the Czech team in the final . The Czech Republic became world champions for the third time in a row.

In the same year, Division I of the Junior World Championship 2001 took place in the Bavarian towns of Füssen and Landsberg am Lech . The same competition took place three years later in Berlin .

The Ice Hockey World Championship in Germany took place in Cologne and Mannheim in 2010. The DEB prevailed against Belarus in the 2005 award after Sweden and Slovakia withdrew their candidacies before the vote. First place went to the Czech Republic , which prevailed with a 2-1 win over Russia . The DEB selection reached the 4th place at this World Cup, as they lost the game for 3rd place against Sweden with 1: 3.

The 2017 Ice Hockey World Championships were held in Cologne and Paris and had the motto "together for 2017".

Members

Are members

  • the clubs of the DEL and the DEL2
  • the clubs that belong to the league, the women's national league, the DNL or another division organized by the DEB
  • the 16 state ice sports associations (LEV)

Regional associations

The DEB now has 16 regional associations (LEV) in all federal states except Brandenburg. In addition to ice hockey, these are mostly responsible for other ice sports , sometimes also for roller sports . Only in North Rhine-Westphalia has there been a separate ice hockey association since 2016. The Brandenburg Ice Sports Association is not a member of the DEB. The ice hockey departments of the LEV Lower Saxony, Hamburg, Bremen, Schleswig-Holstein and Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania coordinate their activities in the so-called Northern Association. The ice hockey sub-division of the Saarland ERV has been an organizational part of the Rhineland-Palatinate ERV for many years, although there is currently no club with an active ice hockey department in Saarland.

The LEV organize the game operations below the DEB leagues, for seniors this is the game operations from the fourth division (regional league) , for youngsters below the Bundesliga or the German youth leagues and for women the leagues below the Bundesliga.

organization

General meeting

The general assembly acts as the highest body of the association. It consists of the representatives of the members. The DEL clubs have one third of the votes, the DEL 2 clubs one sixth, the state ice sports or state ice hockey associations one third of the votes and the other members one sixth of the votes.

Bureau

Period president Vice President (s)
1963-1964 Ludwig Zametzer and Günther Sabetzki have equal rights
1964-1984 Otto Wanner Günther Sabetzki
1984-1988 Ernst Eichler
1988-1991 Rudolf Gandorfer
1991-1992 Heinz Landen
1992-1995 Ulf Jäkel
1993-1995 Wolfgang Bonenkamp
1995-2002 Rainer Gossmann Rudolf Schnabel
2002-2003 Hans-Ulrich Esken Uwe Harnos , Bodo Lauterjung , Jochen Haselbacher
2003-2008 Uwe Harnos, Bodo Lauterjung, Wolfgang Brück
2008-2010 Uwe Harnos Erich Kühnhackl , Bodo Lauterjung, Wolfgang Brück
2010-2014 Erich Kühnhackl, Manuel Hüttl , Raymund Schneeweis
since 2014 Franz Reindl Daniel Hopp , Berthold Wipfler , Marc Hindelang

Other officials

Secretary General

  • 2004–2014: Franz Reindl (Garmisch-Partenkirchen)
  • 2014–2017: Michael Pfuhl (Mering)
  • since 2017: Michael Grosz

Sports directors

  • 1970–1986: Roman Neumayer (Olching)
  • 1986–1992: Helmut Bauer (Garmisch-Partenkirchen)
  • 1992–2011: Franz Reindl (Garmisch-Partenkirchen)
  • 2012-2013: Pat Cortina
  • 2014–2015: Ernst Höfner
  • since 2017: Stefan Schaidnagel

technical director

  • until 1993: Fritz Brechenmacher (Munich)
  • 2003–2014: Michael Pfuhl (Mering)
  • since 2017: Michael Pfuhl (Mering)

General manager

Team manager (senior national team)

  • until 2002: Eckardt Schindler (Neufahrn)
  • 2002–2004: Marco Stichnoth (Hanover)
  • 2004–2008: Carlos Vogel (Munich)
  • 2008–? : Klaus Merk (Augsburg)
  • since 2018 Horst Fuchs (Ingolstadt)

National team

Current coach of the senior national team (men)

Current coach of the senior national team (women)

mascot

Since November 2006 " Urmel on the Ice " has been the official mascot of the DEB and its German national teams. He wears the shirt number (20) 10 (year of the last ice hockey world championship in Germany) and, according to his fan page, played as a striker at the “EHC Titiwu” and the EHC “ Augsburger Puppenkiste ”.

See also

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Inventory survey 2019 (PDF) German Olympic Sports Confederation, accessed on May 19, 2020 .
  2. ^ Stephan Müller: German ice hockey championships. P. 29.
  3. ↑ http://zefys.staatsbibliothek-berlin.de/ddr-presse/ffektbeispiel/?purl=SNP26120215-19620319-0-4-93-0
  4. ↑ http://zefys.staatsbibliothek-berlin.de/ddr-presse/ffektbeispiel/?purl=SNP26120215-19620418-0-8-316-0
  5. ↑ https://www.zeit.de/1962/48/eishockey-auf-der-strafbank
  6. ^ Anniversary in Krefeld: German Ice Hockey Federation founded 50 years ago. In: rp-online.de. April 19, 2013. Retrieved February 28, 2017 .
  7. ^ Stephan Müller: German ice hockey championships. P. 60.
  8. ↑ a b c faz.net
  9. ↑ hockeyweb.de
  10. ↑ eissportverband-brandenburg.de ( Memento from January 11, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
  11. ↑ HERV agreement on the establishment of the Northern Association (PDF).
  12. ↑ bev-eissport.de
  13. ↑ eissport-berlin.de
  14. ↑ ebw-eishockey.de
  15. ↑ ehv-nrw.com
  16. ↑ http://www.lev-nrw.de/sonstiges/DEB%20LEV%20NRW%2024052016.pdf
  17. ↑ herr.de
  18. ↑ eishockey-hessen.de
  19. ↑ lev-mv.de
  20. ↑ lev-sachsen-anhalt.de
  21. ↑ lev-sh.de
  22. ↑ lev-niedersachsen.de
  23. ↑ rperv.de
  24. ↑ saarland-eis-rollsportverband.de
  25. ↑ sev-eishockey.de
  26. ↑ terv-online.de
  27. ↑ urmelaufdemeis.de