Xaver nonsense

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GermanyGermany  Xaver nonsense Ice hockey player
IIHF Hall of Fame , 1998
Date of birth November 29, 1929
place of birth Fuessen , Germany
date of death 4th January 2012
Place of death Fuessen , Germany
Nickname Mister ice hockey, Mr. ice hockey, Xari
position striker
Career stations
1946-1960 EV Füssen
1960–1962 ESV Kaufbeuren

Xaver Unsinn (born November 29, 1929 in Füssen , Bavaria ; † January 4, 2012 there ) was a German ice hockey player and coach. He was in 1964 at the Olympic Games and later from 1975 to 1977 and from 1982 to 1990 national ice hockey coach. He was inducted into the IIHF Hall of Fame and the Hockey Hall of Fame Germany .

Career as a player

Before Xaver Unsinn started a career as an ice hockey player, he practiced various sports such as tennis , ski jumping and soccer . Nonsense played ice hockey from 1946 to 1960 at EV Füssen , with whom he won eight championships as a striker . From 1956 to 1959 he was their team captain . From 1960 to 1962 he was a player-coach at ESV Kaufbeuren .

Internationally, he completed 72 internationals in which he scored 24 goals. He took part in the A World Championships in 1952 , 1953 , 1954 , 1959 and 1960, and in the Olympic Games in 1952 and 1960 . His greatest success with the national team was winning the vice world championship in 1953.

Career as a coach

Even as a player at ESV Kaufbeuren , Nonsense also worked as a coach for the team that he led to promotion to the 1st Bundesliga in 1961 . Unmistakable was his trademark, the Pepita - hat . Further stations in Germany were Preussen Krefeld , the Cologne EC , the Augsburger EV , the Düsseldorfer EG , the Berliner SC and the EV Rosenheim . In 1972 he led the Düsseldorfer EG to win the German championship, the same achieved nonsense with the Berliner SC in 1974 and 1976. From 1978 to 1981 he made a detour to the Swiss capital to SC Bern , which the German won the 1979 title in National League A led.

With the trainer Xaver Unsinn, known as Mister Eishockei because he pronounced the word ice hockey in the Allgäu dialect, the DEB national team of the Federal Republic of Germany won the bronze medal at the Olympic Winter Games in Innsbruck in 1976 , after having played together with Markus at the 1964 Olympic Games Egen and Engelbert Holderied had been national ice hockey coach. 1977 his engagement ended for the time being after the DEB selection had completed an unsatisfactory tournament. From 1981 he trained and directed the DEB national team again. After a few good tournaments - in 1984 and 1988 the West German team took fifth place at the Olympic Winter Games - Xaver Unsinn had to retire from the position of national coach of the German national team in 1990 for health reasons . Erich Kühnhackl was hired as his successor .

1996 was nonsense for his contributions to the sport of ice hockey in the Federal Republic, the Federal Cross of Merit . In 1998 he was honored with the induction into the IIHF Hall of Fame in the category functionary . In 2003 he was awarded the Bavarian Sports Prize in the category "Sporting life's work".

death

On January 4, 2012, Xaver Unsinn died after a serious illness at the age of 82 in the Füssen district of Hopfen am See . He was buried in the forest cemetery in Füssen.

Trainer stations

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b kondolenzbuch.bestattungen-klaus.de: obituary notice from Xaver nonsense
  2. ^ IIHF Hall of Fame. International Ice Hockey Federation , accessed June 18, 2011 .
  3. ^ Winner of the Bavarian Sports Prize 2002–2013. (PDF; 44 kB) Bavarian Sports Prize , accessed on December 15, 2015 .
  4. ↑ knerger.de: The grave of Xaver nonsense
personal data
SURNAME Nonsense, Xaver
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German ice hockey player and coach
DATE OF BIRTH November 29, 1929
PLACE OF BIRTH Feet
DATE OF DEATH 4th January 2012
Place of death Feet