Paul Ambros

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GermanyGermany  Paul Ambros Ice hockey player
Date of birth June 22, 1934
place of birth Hopfen am See , Germany
date of death June 26, 2015
Place of death Feet
Nickname Tiger from the Hopfensee
position defender
Shot hand Right
Career stations
1953-1965 EV Füssen
1965-1973 Augsburg EV

Paul Ambros (born June 22, 1934 in Hopfen am See , † June 26, 2015 in Füssen ) was a German ice hockey player . In the course of his career he was eleven times German champion and inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame Germany .

Career

He learned to play ice hockey on the Hopfensee near Füssen with his two brothers and together with them joined SV Hopfen am See, which was founded after the Second World War and has not been involved in league games since 2001/02.

In 1949 he moved to EV Füssen and became German youth champion there in 1951 and 1952. From 1953 he was used in the 1st team of the EVF and played there in the ice hockey league and in the ice hockey Bundesliga and was German champion eleven times. In the summer of 1965 he left the EV Füssen in strife and moved to the Augsburg EV for the 1965/66 season , with whom he was promoted to the ice hockey Bundesliga at the end of the 1967/68 season .

Having already in 1972 had ended his career with the Augsburger EV, he returned in the 1972/73 season but again as a player back.

He played in the German national team from 1956 to 1964, taking part in the Winter Olympics in 1956 , 1960 and 1964 and the World Championships in 1959 , 1961 and 1963 .

During his career as an ice hockey player, he worked as a carpenter and also manufactured the Ambros ice hockey sticks.

According to a statement by Paul Ambros, he had to show his passport to some players of the Russian team after a match at a tournament, as they insisted that he was a Canadian playing for Germany due to his "Canadian" (= body-hugging) style of play. Paul Ambros was one of the first players to play very physically. Even in old age, for example at charity games in the mid-1990s, he refused to wear a helmet. Ambros wasn't afraid to throw himself between the puck and the goal if he shot at goal.

On March 10, 1963, he received the Silver Laurel Leaf for his athletic achievements.

On July 22, 2005, the "Paul-Ambros-Platz" in Füssen was named after him. In September 2015, the Augsburg panthers blocked Ambros' jersey number 5 .

literature

  • Horst Eckert: Paul Ambros. The tiger from the Hopfensee. Ice hockey is his life. Verlag Die Brigg, Augsburg, 1973, DNB 740345125

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Sport-Bild from June 17, 1998, p. 67.
  2. ↑ Paul Ambros, born June 22, 1934 - † June 26, 2015 in Füssen. In: bestattungen-klaus.de. June 26, 2015, accessed February 19, 2019 .
  3. ↑ Wolfgang Langner: Paul Ambros: The "Tiger from Hopfensee" is dead . Augsburger Allgemeine , June 26, 2015.
  4. ^ Sports report of the Federal Government of September 26, 1973 to the Bundestag - Printed matter 7/1040 - page 56
  5. ↑ Augsburger Allgemeine: Paul Ambros gets a place of honor in the Curt Frenzel Stadium. In: augsburger-allgemeine.de . September 10, 2015, accessed September 15, 2015 .
personal data
SURNAME Ambros, Paul
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Tiger vom Hopfensee (nickname)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German ice hockey player
DATE OF BIRTH June 22, 1934
PLACE OF BIRTH Hops on the lake
DATE OF DEATH June 26, 2015
Place of death Feet