The German Ice Hockey Federation (), commonly abbreviated as DEB, is the governing federation of German

ice hockey Ice hockey (or simply hockey) is a team sport played on ice skates, usually on an ice skating rink with lines and markings specific to the sport. It belongs to a family of sports called hockey. In ice hockey, two opposing teams use ice hock ...

associations. It was established on 16 June 1963 in

Krefeld Krefeld ( , ; li, Krieëvel ), also spelled Crefeld until 1925 (though the spelling was still being used in British papers throughout the Second World War), is a city in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It is located northwest of Düsseldorf, i ...

. Until 1990 it served only the old

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and

West Berlin West Berlin (german: Berlin (West) or , ) was a political enclave which comprised the western part of Berlin during the years of the Cold War. Although West Berlin was de jure not part of West Germany, lacked any sovereignty, and was under mi ...

. Until the establishment of the DEB, ice hockey was one of many different ice and winter sports overseen by the Deutschen Eissport-Verband. The German Ice Hockey Federation took over the responsibility for the supra-regional leagues (especially the

Bundesliga The Bundesliga (; ), sometimes referred to as the Fußball-Bundesliga () or 1. Bundesliga (), is a professional association football league in Germany. At the top of the German football league system, the Bundesliga is Germany's primary footba ...

) and for the

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. It became the additional West German representative in the

International Ice Hockey Federation The International Ice Hockey Federation (IIHF; french: Fédération internationale de hockey sur glace; german: Internationale Eishockey-Föderation) is a worldwide governing body for ice hockey. It is based in Zurich, Switzerland, and has 83 m ...

Presidents

*1963/64 Ludwig Zametzer (Füssen)/ Dr.

Günther Sabetzki Günther Sabetzki (4 June 1915 in Düsseldorf, German Empire – 21 June 2000) was an executive for several ice hockey leagues and organizations. Sabetzki was one of the founding members of the German Ice Hockey Federation in 1963. He would b ...

(Düsseldorf) were co-Presidents *1964–1992 Otto Wanner (Füssen) *1992–1995 Ulf Jäkel (Kaufbeuren) *1995–2002 Rainer Gossmann (Düsseldorf) *2002–2008 Hans-Ulrich Esken (Schwerte) *2008–2010 interim: Uwe Harnos (Kaufbeuren) *2010–2014 Uwe Harnos (Kaufbeuren) *2014– Franz Reindl (Garmisch-Partenkirchen)

Vice presidents

*1963/64 position vacant *1964–1984 Dr. Günther Sabetzki (Düsseldorf) *1984–1988 Dr.

Ernst Eichler Ernst is both a surname and a given name, the German, Dutch, and Scandinavian form of Ernest. Notable people with the name include: Surname * Adolf Ernst (1832–1899) German botanist known by the author abbreviation "Ernst" * Anton Ernst (1975- ...

(Mannheim) *1988–1991 Rudolf Gandorfer (Landshut) *1991–1993 Heinz Landen (Köln) *1993–1995 Dr. Wolfgang Bonenkamp (Düsseld.) *1995–2002 Rudolf Schnabel (Nürnberg) *2002–2008 Uwe Harnos (Kaufbeuren) *2002–2010 Bodo Lauterjung (Ingolstadt) *2002–2002 Jochen Haselbacher (Hannover) *2004–2008 Wolfgang Brück (Iserlohn) *2008–2014 Erich Kühnhackl (Landshut) *2010–2014 Manuel Hüttl (Thaining) *2010–2014 Ramund Schneeweis (Hamm) *2014– Daniel Hopp (Heidelberg) *2014– Berthold Wipfler (Walldorf) *2014– Marc Hindelang (Lindau)

Directors

*1970–86

Roman Neumayer Roman Neumayer (1930/1931 – 23/24 December 2015) was a German ice hockey executive, coach and player. He served as the sport director of the German Ice Hockey Federation from 1970 to 1986, and as technical director for the International Ice Ho ...

(Olching) *1986–92 Helmut Bauer (Garmisch-P.) *1992–2011 Franz Reindl (Garmisch-P.) *2012–2013 Pat Cortina *2013–2017 Ernst Höfner *2017– Stefan Schaidnagel

Team officials

*General Manager **

Toni Söderholm Toni Kristian Söderholm (born 14 April 1978) is a Finnish ice hockey coach and a retired ice hockey defenceman. He is the head coach of the German men's national team. Playing career A native of Finland's capital city of Helsinki, Söderholm pl ...

*Trainer **

(Trainer) ** Tobias Abstreiter (Co-Trainer) ** Christian Künast (Co-Trainer) ** Geoff Ward (Co-Trainer) **

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(Goalie-Trainer)

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:German Ice Hockey Federation Ice hockey in Germany International Ice Hockey Federation members Ice hockey governing bodies in Europe Sports organizations established in 1963