Siegfried Schubert

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GermanyGermany  Siegfried Schubert Ice hockey player
Date of birth October 4, 1939
place of birth Hindenburg , German Empire
Nickname Silla
position center
Shot hand Left
Career stations
1956-1966 EV Füssen

Siegfried "Silla" Schubert (born October 4, 1939 in Hindenburg , German Reich ) is a former German ice hockey player and coach . He is a member of the Hockey Hall of Fame Germany .

Player career

Siegfried Schubert was active as an ice hockey player for EV Füssen in the Bundesliga from 1956 to 1966 . With this he became a German champion a total of seven times and won the Spengler Cup with him in 1964 . In his last season, the 1965/66 season , he was the top scorer in the Bundesliga as team captain of EV Füssen with 26 goals.

After two serious injuries, he ended his career at the age of 27. Due to his services to German ice hockey, he was inducted into the Hall of Fame Germany in 2008.

International

Schubert played a total of 75 international games for the German national ice hockey team , plus three for the B national team. He took part in the Olympic Winter Games in 1960 in Squaw Valley and 1964 in Innsbruck , with the German team taking sixth and seventh place respectively. In Innsbruck Schubert was the top scorer of the German national team with three goals. In the playoff for participation in the World Cup against Switzerland on January 2, 1965 in front of 10,000 spectators in Geneva, Schubert was appointed by the German Ice Hockey Federation at the age of 25 as the youngest team captain. As a center forward in what was probably the best German striker row at the time with Ernst Köpf and Manfred Gmeiner , the selection won the qualifying game 7: 6. Furthermore, Schubert was in Germany's squad for four A and one B world championships.

Coaching career

After the end of his career, Schubert worked as a trainer. With the Spielgemeinschaft Oberstdorf / Sonthofen he rose to the ice hockey Bundesliga in 1967 . After two years of training, including at the German Sport University and the German Trainer Academy in Cologne, Schubert passed the first German A trainer course in 1980 as the best. In addition, he completed the sports director course in the Bundeswehr. After the end of his playing career, Schubert worked as an ice hockey coach for around 20 years, always part-time. For years as an association trainer of the Bavarian Ice Sports Association and trainer / technical junior manager at EV Füssen, where he was able to win two German junior championships and one German youth championship for EV Füssen. On the recommendation of his predecessor Vladimír Bouzek , he took over the first team of EV Füssen in 1970 as the youngest German Bundesliga coach at the age of 30 and led them to the German championship in 1971 and runner-up in 1972 in his first year. For Schubert it was the eighth German title in his career. After completing his degree in administrative management in the Federal Armed Forces administration, he returned to the coaching business. He coached EV Füssen for another four years in the first Bundesliga. In the meantime, he coached EV Pfronten and EV Landsberg in the second Bundesliga , where he was awarded the district's silver badge of honor by the Landsberg district.

For the DEB he was in charge of the B national team, the Olympic selection and the German junior selection with which he reached fifth place in Luleå in 1972 and sixth place in Leningrad in 1973 .

With the EV Füssen he was awarded the silver laurel leaf by the Federal President in the 1963/64 season .

Achievements and Awards

  • 1957 German champion with EV Füssen
  • 1958 German champion with EV Füssen
  • 1959 German champion with EV Füssen
  • 1960 German runner-up with EV Füssen
  • 1961 German champion with EV Füssen
  • 1962 German runner-up with EV Füssen
  • 1963 German champion with EV Füssen
  • 1964 German champion with EV Füssen
  • 1964 Spengler Cup -Win with EV Füssen
  • 1965 German champion with EV Füssen
  • 1966 German runner-up with EV Füssen
  • 1966 Top scorer in the Bundesliga

As a trainer

  • 3 German junior championships with the juniors / youth of EV Füssen
  • 1967 Promotion with the syndicate EC Oberstdorf / ERC Sonthofen in the first Bundesliga
  • 1971 German champion with EV Füssen
  • 1972 German runner-up with EV Füssen

Works

In 2007 he self-published the book "EV Füssen - 16-fold German ice hockey champion" a chronicle from 1922 to 1983. All income that exceeded production costs, he donated primarily to the ice hockey sport in Füssen. In addition, Schubert published an analysis of the state of German ice hockey in the national and international arena in 2009.

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