Joseph "Peppi" Heiß (born 13 June 1963 in

Garmisch-Partenkirchen Garmisch-Partenkirchen (; ) is an Northern Limestone Alps, Alpine mountain resort, ski town in Bavaria, southern Germany. It is the seat of government of the Garmisch-Partenkirchen (district), district of Garmisch-Partenkirchen (abbreviated ...

West Germany West Germany was the common English name for the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG) from its formation on 23 May 1949 until German reunification, its reunification with East Germany on 3 October 1990. It is sometimes known as the Bonn Republi ...

) is a retired

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ice hockey goaltender. He started his career with SC Riessersee in 1980. He played for Riessersee,

Düsseldorfer EG Düsseldorfer Eislauf-Gemeinschaft or Düsseldorfer EG (short DEG) is a German professional ice hockey team in Düsseldorf. It was Germany's most successful hockey club for a long time and had many international players. The famous Eisstadion at th ...

and

Kölner Haie The Kölner Haie (English: ''Cologne Sharks'') are an ice hockey club based in Cologne, Germany, that plays in the professional Deutsche Eishockey Liga (DEL). The team was one of the founding members of the DEL. The ''Kölner Haie'' play their ho ...

. After playing about 1200 games in the German League and 140 games for the German national men's hockey team he retired in 2001 because of a knee injury. His daughter

Stella Heiß Stella Heiß (born 15 January 1993 in Cologne) is a German curler from Garmisch-Partenkirchen. She played lead for Andrea Schöpp when she represented Germany at the 2010 Winter Olympics in Curling at the 2010 Winter Olympics, Curling. At sevente ...

is a successful curler who represented Germany at the

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. At seventeen years, she was the youngest curler at the Games.

Career accomplishments

*German Champion 1981, 1995 *

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-Participation 1990 (7th Place), 1991 (8th), 1992 (6th), 1993 (5th), 1994 (9th), 1995 (9th), 1996 (8th), 1997 (11th), 1998 (11th) *

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-Participation Albertville 1992 (6th), Lillehammer 1994 (7th), Nagano 1998 (9th) *

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1996 (8th)

References

* * 1963 births Living people German ice hockey goaltenders Ice hockey players at the 1992 Winter Olympics Ice hockey players at the 1994 Winter Olympics Ice hockey players at the 1998 Winter Olympics Kölner Haie players Olympic ice hockey players for Germany Ice hockey people from Garmisch-Partenkirchen {{Germany-icehockey-bio-stub