Uli Hiemer

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
GermanyGermany  Uli Hiemer Ice hockey player
Date of birth September 21, 1962
place of birth Fuessen , Germany
size 185 cm
Weight 86 kg
position defender
Shot hand Left
Draft
NHL Entry Draft 1981 , 3rd lap, 48th position
Colorado Rockies
Career stations
1979-1981 EV Füssen
1981-1984 Cologne Sharks
1984-1987 New Jersey Devils
1987-1996 Düsseldorfer EG

Ulrich "Uli" Hiemer (born September 21, 1962 in Füssen ) is a former German ice hockey player ( defender ) who worked for the New Jersey Devils in the National Hockey League and EV Füssen , Cologne, among others EC and Düsseldorfer EG in the ice hockey Bundesliga and the German ice hockey league . He is a member of the Hockey Hall of Fame Germany .

Career

At the age of 17, Hiemer made his breakthrough in the Bundesliga at EV Füssen and played his second strong season in the 1980/81 season. The year he participated in the World Youth Championship in 1981 in the Allgäu part and after the season national coach called him Hans Rampf for the World Cup in the same year in the Swedish Göteborg in the German squad. Since the financial possibilities in the Allgäu were limited, he moved to the Cologne EC together with his brother Jörg in the summer of 1981 . This year, the guaranteed Colorado Rockies in the 1981 NHL Entry Draft in the third round the rights to Hiemer and pulled him to the 48th position.

He was with the Haie for three seasons. The team led by Gerd Truntschka was in those years always in the top of the Bundesliga. In the 1983/84 season , he, Udo Kiessling and Uwe Krupp were the most important German ice hockey defenders of that time in the squad. He was an integral part of the national team and, in addition to the World Championships in 1982 and 1983, also played at the 1984 Winter Olympics in Sarajevo , where he scored two goals. With the championship title in 1984 he said goodbye from Cologne to North America.

The Colorado Rockies had since moved and were now playing as the New Jersey Devils . Hiemer made it straight into the squad and made his debut at the start of the season on October 12, 1984 against the New York Islanders . A week later, he made his first assist against the Toronto Maple Leafs . On October 31, he scored his first three NHL goals against the Pittsburgh Penguins , but did not prevent the 6-7 defeat. Hiemer was the first player trained in Germany to gain a foothold in the NHL. After an injury in the 1985/86 season , he was temporarily used with the Maine Mariners in the American Hockey League (AHL). For three years he played with the Devils in a team with Kirk Muller and Pat Verbeek . The team was not strong enough to qualify for the playoffs in those years. So he was able to take part in the 1985 World Cup. In the 1986/87 season also was Karl Friesen with him at the Devils. On January 16, 1987, he played against the Winnipeg Jets for the last time in the NHL. After that he was sent back to the Maine Mariners.

For the 1987/88 season he moved back to the Bundesliga for Düsseldorfer EG . The Cologne EC still saw the transfer rights for Hiemer and sued for compensation. After an out-of-court settlement, he went on the ice for DEG. For the 1989/90 season , there was another major investment in the squad, including Gerd Truntschka and Dieter Hegen from Cologne. The investment paid off and DEG won four championship titles in a row from 1990 to 1993. There was no way around him in the national team either, at the World Championships in 1989 , 1990 , 1992 and 1993 as well as at the 1992 Winter Olympics in Albertville and two years later in 1994 in Lillehammer , he was one of the pillars of the team.

Even after the introduction of the German Ice Hockey League (DEL) for the 1994/95 season , he stayed in Düsseldorf. After the 1995 World Cup in Stockholm , he played his last DEL season and ended his playing career in the summer of 1996 after winning the German championship again.

statistics

Seasons Games Gates Assists Points Penalty minutes
NHL Regular Season 3 143 19th 54 73 176
AHL regular season 2 41 9 5 14th 70
Bundesliga main round 12 481 151 270 421 862
Bundesliga playoffs 7th 70 22nd 37 59 124
DEL main round 2 87 18th 41 59 152
DEL playoffs 2 23 4th 15th 19th 44

Others

Today, Hiemer operates three McDonald's branches in Bavaria ( Greding , Eichstätt and Neuburg an der Donau ). He has now given up the branches in Werdohl and Lüdenscheid . As a friend of the rock band Die Toten Hosen , Uli Hiemer was a guest singer in 1996 for the recording of the song Ten Little Jägermeisters from the album Opium fürs Volk .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Augsburger Allgemeine. Retrieved February 25, 2017 .
  2. ↑ McDonald's - Franchisee Profile. In: mcdonalds.de. Retrieved December 6, 2016 .
personal data
SURNAME Hiemer, Uli
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hiemer, Ulrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German ice hockey player
DATE OF BIRTH September 21, 1962
PLACE OF BIRTH Feet