Steffen Ziesche

Steffen Ziesche
Date of birth	May 2, 1972
place of birth	Berlin , GDR
size	183 cm
Weight	83 kg
position	striker
number	#8th
Shot hand	Left
Career stations
1989-1994	Dynamo / polar bears Berlin
1994-1996	Frankfurt Lions
1996	Cardiff Devils
1996-1998	EV Duisburg
1998-1999	Braunlager EHC / Harz
1999-2001	Erding jets
2001-2005	Krefeld penguins
2005-2006	Kassel Huskies

Steffen Ziesche (born May 2, 1972 in Berlin , GDR ) is a former German ice hockey player (striker) who has been working as an ice hockey trainer and official since the end of his career. His father Joachim Ziesche was a well-known ice hockey player and coach in the GDR.

Career

As a player

Steffen Ziesche's career began in 1989 at SC Dynamo Berlin in the GDR league . At the U18 European Championship in 1990 he was named the best striker of the C group. As the son of GDR ice hockey legend Joachim Ziesche, he played for four years at Dynamo and the successor club Eisbären Berlin, before moving to the Frankfurt Lions in 1994 when the DEL was founded .

In the summer of 1996 he received no new contract with the Lions and moved to the Cardiff Devils in the Ice Hockey Superleague . Due to the performance shown there with eight goals and 16 assists from 20 games, EV Duisburg signed him in December of the same year. In Duisburg he developed into a reliable goal scorer and passer and scored 32 scorer points in 20 games in the 1997/98 Bundesliga qualification . In the summer of 1998 he moved to Braunlager EHC / Harz within the 2nd Bundesliga . Between 1999 and 2001 he played for the Erding Jets and reached promotion to the second Bundesliga with them at the end of the 1999/2000 season .

In 2001 Ziesche returned to the DEL. With the Krefeld Pinguinen , Ziesche played four years as a reliable worker in the back rows of the squad. Ziesche experienced the sporting climax of his career in the 2002/03 season when he became German champion with the Penguins . Ziesche gained special recognition when he scored 3-1 for the Krefeld Penguins with a long-range shot into the empty goal in the last final game of the play-offs a few seconds before the end.

Two years later, the now 33-year-old switched to the Kassel Huskies . There he played alongside Tobias Abstreiter and Martin Sychra in the second row and was on his way to playing his DEL season with the highest points up to that point. But after 35 games Ziesche was forced to end his career due to a torn cruciate ligament .

As a trainer and functionary

Ziesche now lives with his family in Berlin-Weißensee and after retiring he was initially the sports director of Eisbären Juniors Berlin .

From mid-February 2009 to June 2010 he was employed as a sports manager for the Dresdner Eislöwen .

In November 2010 he took over the coaching position with the Eispiraten Crimmitschau before returning to Berlin in April 2011. There he was the sports director and DNL trainer of the Eisbären Juniors Berlin until 2017, and from 2017 to 2019 he was assistant trainer of the professional team of the Eisbären. He has been the head coach of the German U18 national team since 2019 .

Web links

• Steffen Ziesche at eliteprospects.com (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ flying-penguins.net, profile of Steffen Ziesche ( memento of the original from December 1, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
2. ↑ rp-online.de, season for Kassels Ziesche ended  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
3. ↑ eishockey.info, new sports manager for Dresden
4. ↑ Eisbären Berlin: Eisbären expand coaching team - another assistant coach, fitness coach and goalkeeper coach. In: eishockey.info. July 16, 2017. Retrieved August 25, 2017 . 
5. ↑ Steffen Ziesche becomes a full-time U18 national coach. Retrieved May 26, 2019 .