Germany men's national ice hockey team

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 didn't 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.

The team is not considered to be as elite as Canada, the Czech Republic, Finland, Russia, Sweden or the United States, but they are ranked 7th in the world (2019) 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

• 1930 – Won silver medal
• 1933 – Finished in 5th place
• 1934 – Won bronze medal
• 1935 – Finished in 9th place
• 1937 – Finished in 4th place
• 1938 – Finished in 4th place
• 1939 – Finished in 5th place
• 1953 – Won silver medal
• 1954 – Finished in 5th place
• 1955 – Finished in 6th place
• 1959 – Finished in 7th place
• 1961 – Finished in 8th place
• 1962 – Finished in 6th place
• 1963 – Finished in 7th place
• 1965 – Finished in 11th place (3rd in "B" Pool)
• 1966 – Finished in 9th place (Won "B" Pool)
• 1967 – Finished in 8th place
• 1969 – Finished in 10th place (4th in "B" Pool)
• 1970 – Finished in 8th place (2nd in "B" Pool)
• 1971 – Finished in 5th place
• 1972 – Finished in 5th place
• 1973 – Finished in 6th place
• 1974 – Finished in 9th place (3rd in "B" Pool)
• 1975 – Finished in 8th place (2nd in "B" Pool)
• 1976 – Finished in 6th place
• 1977 – Finished in 7th place
• 1978 – Finished in 5th place
• 1979 – Finished in 6th place
• 1981 – Finished in 7th place
• 1982 – Finished in 6th place
• 1983 – Finished in 5th place
• 1985 – Finished in 7th place
• 1986 – Finished in 7th place
• 1987 – Finished in 6th place
• 1989 – Finished in 7th place
• 1990 – Finished in 7th place

Year	Location	Coach	Result
1991	Turku / Helsinki / Tampere,  Finland	Erich Kühnhackl	8th place
1992	Prague / Bratislava,  Czechoslovakia	Luděk Bukač	6th place
1993	Dortmund / Munich,  Germany	Luděk Bukač	5th place
1994	Bolzano / Canazei / Milano,  Italy	Luděk Bukač	9th place
1995	Stockholm / Gävle,  Sweden	George Kingston	9th place
1996	Vienna,  Austria	George Kingston	8th place
1997	Helsinki / Turku / Tampere,  Finland	George Kingston	11th place
1998	Zürich / Basel,   Switzerland	George Kingston	11th place (Relegated)
1999	Odense / Rødovre,  Denmark	Hans Zach	20th place (4th place in Pool B)
2000	Katowice / Kraków,  Poland	Hans Zach	17th place (Won Pool B)
2001	Cologne / Hanover / Nuremberg,  Germany	Hans Zach	8th place
2002	Gothenburg / Karlstad / Jönköping,  Sweden	Hans Zach	8th place
2003	Helsinki / Tampere / Turku,  Finland	Hans Zach	7th place
2004	Prague / Ostrava,  Czech Republic	Hans Zach	9th place
2005	Innsbruck / Vienna,  Austria	Greg Poss	15th place (Relegated)
2006	Amiens,  France	Uwe Krupp	17th place (Won Division I, Group A)
2007	Moscow / Mytishchi,  Russia	Uwe Krupp	7th place
2008	Quebec City / Halifax,  Canada	Uwe Krupp	10th place
2009	Bern / Kloten,   Switzerland	Uwe Krupp	15th place
2010	Cologne / Mannheim / Gelsenkirchen,  Germany	Uwe Krupp	4th place
2011	Bratislava / Košice,  Slovakia	Uwe Krupp	7th place
2012	Helsinki,  Finland / Stockholm,  Sweden	Jakob Kölliker	12th place
2013	Stockholm,  Sweden / Helsinki,  Finland	Pat Cortina	9th place
2014	Minsk,  Belarus	Pat Cortina	14th place
2015	Prague / Ostrava,  Czech Republic	Pat Cortina	10th place
2016	Moscow / Saint Petersburg,  Russia	Marco Sturm	7th place
2017	Cologne,  Germany / Paris,  France	Marco Sturm	8th place
2018	Copenhagen / Herning,  Denmark	Marco Sturm	11th place
2019	Bratislava / Košice,  Slovakia	Toni Söderholm	6th place
2020	Zürich / Lausanne,   Switzerland	Cancelled[2]
2021	Riga,  Latvia	Toni Söderholm	4th place
2022	Tampere / Helsinki,  Finland

Games	GP	W	T	L	GF	GA	Coach	Captain	Finish	Rank
1910 Les Avants	3	2	0	1	17	5	?	?	Round-robin
1911 Berlin	3	3	0	0	20	1	?	?	Round-robin
1912 Prague*	2	1	1	0	6	3	?	?	Round-robin
1913 Munich	3	1	0	2	21	16	?	?	Round-robin
1914 Berlin	2	1	0	1	4	3	?	?	Round-robin
1915–1920	No Championships (World War I).
1921 Stockholm	Did not participate.
1922 St. Moritz	Did not participate.
1923 Antwerp	Did not participate.
1924 Milan	Did not participate.
1925 Štrbské Pleso, Starý Smokovec	Did not participate.
1926 Davos	Did not participate.
1927 Wien	5	3	0	2	10	7	?	?	Round-robin
1929 Budapest	2	0	0	2	1	3	?	?	First round	8th
1932 Berlin	6	1	4	1	5	5	?	?	Final round	4th

• 1912 Championship was later annulled because Austria was not a member of the IIHF at the time of the competition.

• 1996 – lost in quarterfinals
• 2004 – lost in quarterfinals

• 1984 – Finished in 6th place

• Deutschland Cup: Gold medal (1995, 1996, 2009, 2010, 2012, 2014, 2015, 2021)
• Nissan Cup: Gold medal (1993)

Roster for the 2021 IIHF World Championship.[3]

Head coach: Toni Söderholm[4]

No.	Pos.	Name	Height	Weight	Birthdate	Team
3	D	Dominik Bittner	1.81 m (5 ft 11 in)	76 kg (168 lb)	(1992-06-10) 10 June 1992	Grizzlys Wolfsburg
5	D	Korbinian Holzer – A	1.90 m (6 ft 3 in)	94 kg (207 lb)	(1988-02-16) 16 February 1988	Avtomobilist Yekaterinburg
7	F	Maximilian Kastner	1.80 m (5 ft 11 in)	84 kg (185 lb)	(1993-01-03) 3 January 1993	EHC Red Bull München
8	F	Tobias Rieder	1.80 m (5 ft 11 in)	82 kg (181 lb)	(1993-01-10) 10 January 1993	Buffalo Sabres
9	D	Leon Gawanke	1.86 m (6 ft 1 in)	90 kg (200 lb)	(1999-05-31) 31 May 1999	Manitoba Moose
11	D	Marco Nowak	1.89 m (6 ft 2 in)	93 kg (205 lb)	(1990-07-23) 23 July 1990	Düsseldorfer EG
15	F	Stefan Loibl	1.86 m (6 ft 1 in)	83 kg (183 lb)	(1996-06-24) 24 June 1996	Adler Mannheim
21	F	Nico Krämmer	1.86 m (6 ft 1 in)	94 kg (207 lb)	(1992-10-23) 23 October 1992	Adler Mannheim
22	F	Matthias Plachta	1.88 m (6 ft 2 in)	100 kg (220 lb)	(1991-05-16) 16 May 1991	Adler Mannheim
31	G	Niklas Treutle	1.87 m (6 ft 2 in)	85 kg (187 lb)	(1991-04-29) 29 April 1991	Nürnberg Ice Tigers
34	F	Tom Kühnhackl	1.87 m (6 ft 2 in)	89 kg (196 lb)	(1992-01-21) 21 January 1992	Bridgeport Islanders
35	G	Mathias Niederberger	1.80 m (5 ft 11 in)	80 kg (180 lb)	(1992-11-26) 26 November 1992	Eisbären Berlin
38	D	Fabio Wagner	1.82 m (6 ft 0 in)	83 kg (183 lb)	(1995-09-17) 17 September 1995	ERC Ingolstadt
41	D	Jonas Müller	1.83 m (6 ft 0 in)	88 kg (194 lb)	(1995-11-19) 19 November 1995	Eisbären Berlin
53	D	Moritz Seider	1.92 m (6 ft 4 in)	90 kg (200 lb)	(2001-04-06) 6 April 2001	Rögle BK
54	F	Lean Bergmann	1.87 m (6 ft 2 in)	93 kg (205 lb)	(1998-10-04) 4 October 1998	San Jose Sharks
58	F	Markus Eisenschmid	1.84 m (6 ft 0 in)	82 kg (181 lb)	(1995-01-22) 22 January 1995	Adler Mannheim
70	F	John-Jason Peterka	1.80 m (5 ft 11 in)	85 kg (187 lb)	(2002-01-14) 14 January 2002	EHC Red Bull München
72	F	Dominik Kahun	1.80 m (5 ft 11 in)	82 kg (181 lb)	(1995-07-02) 2 July 1995	Edmonton Oilers
73	F	Lukas Reichel	1.83 m (6 ft 0 in)	78 kg (172 lb)	(2002-05-17) 17 May 2002	Eisbären Berlin
77	F	Daniel Fischbuch	1.80 m (5 ft 11 in)	80 kg (180 lb)	(1993-08-19) 19 August 1993	Düsseldorfer EG
83	F	Leonhard Pföderl	1.82 m (6 ft 0 in)	87 kg (192 lb)	(1993-09-01) 1 September 1993	Eisbären Berlin
85	D	Marcel Brandt	1.76 m (5 ft 9 in)	80 kg (180 lb)	(1992-05-08) 8 May 1992	Straubing Tigers
90	G	Felix Brückmann	1.81 m (5 ft 11 in)	83 kg (183 lb)	(1990-12-16) 16 December 1990	Adler Mannheim
91	D	Moritz Müller – C	1.87 m (6 ft 2 in)	92 kg (203 lb)	(1986-11-19) 19 November 1986	Kölner Haie
92	F	Marcel Noebels – A	1.92 m (6 ft 4 in)	92 kg (203 lb)	(1992-03-14) 14 March 1992	Eisbären Berlin
95	F	Frederik Tiffels	1.85 m (6 ft 1 in)	91 kg (201 lb)	(1995-05-20) 20 May 1995	Kölner Haie
96	F	Andreas Eder	1.89 m (6 ft 2 in)	91 kg (201 lb)	(1996-03-20) 20 March 1996	Straubing Tigers

• 20 – Robert Dietrich

• Heinz Henschel, president of the German Ice Sport Federation
• Wolf-Dieter Montag, team physician
• Roman Neumayer, sport director for the German Ice Hockey Federation