Germany men's national ice hockey team
Template:Short description Template:Use dmy dates Template:Infobox national hockey team Template:MedalBox The German men's national ice hockey team is the national ice hockey team of Germany and is controlled by the German Ice Hockey Federation. It first participated in serious international competition at the 1911 European Hockey Championship. When Germany was split after World War II, a separate East Germany national ice hockey team existed until 1990. By 1991, the West and East German teams and players were merged into the United German team. The team's head coach is Harold Kreis.
Germany has won several medals at the World Championships, including three silver medals in 1930, 1953 and 2023, as well as a silver medal at the 2018 Winter Olympics, the team's biggest success in the 21st century.[1]
History
West Germany
The West German team's greatest success came in 1976 at the Winter Olympics, when the team went 2–3–0 and won the bronze medal. The Swedish and Canadian teams, traditionally two hockey powerhouses, had boycotted the 1976 Games in protest of the amateur rules that allowed Eastern Bloc countries to send their best players while keeping Western nations from doing the same.
West Germany's wins in the 1976 Games came against the United States (4–1) and Poland (7–4).
In 1980, the team did not do as well and only won one game in the preliminary round, which kept them from advancing. They finished 10th out of 12.
In 1984, the team was invited to the Canada Cup. By 1991, the reunification of East and West Germany meant the inclusion of players from the former East Germany.
Post-unification
The team is not considered to be as elite as Canada, the Czech Republic, Finland, Russia, Sweden or the United States; they are ranked 9th in the world (2022) by the IIHF. Since re-unification, their best recent results include finishing 6th place at the 2003 World Championships where they lost a close quarter-final match in overtime to Canada, and 4th at the 2010 World Championships where they lost to Sweden in the bronze medal game. Previously, they finished third in the European Group and qualified for the quarter-finals at the 1996 World Cup after a surprising 7–1 victory against the Czech Republic. In the 1992 Olympics, they lost to Canada 4–3 in an overtime shoot-out in the quarter-finals.
Germany has never won an international competition, and their most recent medal was silver in the 2018 Olympic Winter Games, when they lost to the Olympic Athletes From Russia 4–3 in overtime. It was the first time that Germany had reached the Gold Medal Game at the Winter Olympics. This was their best result, tied with a silver medal at the 1930 World Championships.
There are 25,934 registered players in Germany (0.03% of its population).
Team Germany finished in 4th place at the 2010 IIHF World Championship, their best placement since 1953.
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Finland and Germany in 1993 World Championships
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The German national team at the 2005 World Championship
Competition results
Olympic Games
| Totals | ||||
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| Games | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
| 16 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
World Championship
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European Championship
| Year | GP | W | T | L | GF | GA | Finish | Rank | ||
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| Template:Flagicon 1910 Les Avants | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 17 | 5 | Round-robin | Script error: No such module "sort". | ||
| Template:Flagicon 1911 Berlin | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 20 | 1 | Round-robin | Script error: No such module "sort". | ||
| Template:Flagicon 1912 Prague* | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 3 | Round-robin | Script error: No such module "sort". | ||
| Template:Flagicon 1913 Munich | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 21 | 16 | Round-robin | Script error: No such module "sort". | ||
| Template:Flagicon 1914 Berlin | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 3 | Round-robin | Script error: No such module "sort". | ||
| 1915–1920 | No Championships (World War I). | |||||||||
| 1921-1926 | Did not participate. | |||||||||
| Template:Flagicon 1927 Wien | 5 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 10 | 7 | Round-robin | Script error: No such module "sort". | ||
| Template:Flagicon 1929 Budapest | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 3 | First round | 8th | ||
| Template:Flagicon 1932 Berlin | 6 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 5 | 5 | Final round | 4th | ||
| 1933–1991 | After 1932, the European Championship medals were awarded based on the results of the Ice Hockey World Championships, with Germany receiving File:Gold medal icon.svg Gold in 1930 and 1934. | |||||||||
- 1912 Championship was later annulled because Austria was not a member of the IIHF at the time of the competition.
World Cup of Hockey
- 1996 – lost in quarterfinals
- 2004 – lost in quarterfinals
- 2016 – Won File:Silver medal icon.svg Silver (as part of Team Europe)
Canada Cup
- 1984 – Finished in 6th place
Other tournaments
- Deutschland Cup: Script error: No such module "sort". Gold medal (1995, 1996, 2009, 2010, 2012, 2014, 2015, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2025)
- Nissan Cup: Script error: No such module "sort". Gold medal (1993)
Team
Current roster
Roster for the 2025 IIHF World Championship.[3][4]
Head coach: Harold Kreis
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Retired numbers
- 20 – Robert Dietrich
- 80 - Robert Müller
Notable players
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- Leon Draisaitl
- Rudi Ball
- Christian Ehrhoff
- Karl Friesen
- Marcel Goc
- Thomas Greiss
- Philipp Grubauer
- Jochen Hecht
- Dieter Hegen
- Gustav Jaenecke
- Udo Kießling
- Ralph Krueger
- Patrick Reimer
- Olaf Kölzig
- Erich Kühnhackl
- Uwe Krupp (also former head coach)
- Robert Müller
- Helmut de Raaf
- Hans Rampf
- Dennis Seidenberg
- Alois Schloder
- Marco Sturm (also former head coach)
- Xaver Unsinn (also former head coach)
Notable executives
- Heinz Henschel, president of the German Ice Sport Federation
- Wolf-Dieter Montag, team physician
- Roman Neumayer, sport director for the German Ice Hockey Federation
Uniform evolution
- National team jerseys
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(West Germany) 1988 Olympic jerseys
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1992 Olympic jerseys
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1994 Olympic jersey
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1998 Olympic jerseys
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1999-2000 IIHF jerseys
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former IIHF jerseys
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2014–2017 IIHF jerseys
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2018 Olympic jerseys
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2018–2021 IIHF jerseys
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2022 Olympic jerseys
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2022– IIHF jerseys
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All-time record
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See also
References
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External links
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- IIHF profile
- National Teams of Ice Hockey
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