Werner Lorenz (ice hockey player)

Werner Lorenz (born January 5, 1937 in Ludwigshafen am Rhein , † March 20, 2020 ) was a German ice hockey player . The defender played for the Mannheim ERC (MERC) from 1952 to 1971 .

Life

Lorenz played for the first time in 1952 at the age of 15 in the Mannheim first team , which was second class at the time. In 1954, he was promoted to the league , as the top German division was called at the time. After only one season, the MERC had to relegate. But after the direct rise again, Lorenz's club was able to establish itself in the upper house. He was the third best defender in the league three times, in the 1961/62 , 1963/64 and 1964/65 seasons . The German championship played the strong Bavarian teams among themselves. The best placements that Werner Lorenz was able to achieve with the Mannheim ERC were three third places in the seasons 1958/59 , 1962/63 and 1964/65 . In 1971 he ended his career in which he played over 750 games for MERC in 19 seasons and scored 76 goals.

Even after that, Lorenz remained loyal to Mannheim ice hockey. He was a junior coach for four years and became first chairman, later honorary chairman, of MERC in 2003. In 2012, the Adler Mannheim , successor to MERC, honored him by blocking his shirt number and hanging his jersey with the number 2 symbolically under the roof of the SAP Arena .

Werner Lorenz died on March 20, 2020 after a serious illness.

literature

• Matthias Fries, Die Adler Mannheim (ed.): 75 years of the ice hockey city Mannheim . Catalog for the exhibition in the Reiss-Engelhorn-Museen 2012, p. 19
• Jan Kotulla: Fans celebrate MERC legends . Mannheimer Morgen November 24, 2012, p. 10

Web links

• Werner Lorenz at eliteprospects.com (English)

Individual evidence

1. ^ ^{A b c} Mannheim ice hockey legend Werner Lorenz died at the age of 83 in Mannheimer Morgen on March 22, 2020