Germany men's national ice hockey team

Germany

Nickname(s)	Träger der Adler (Bearers of the Eagle)
Association	Deutscher Eishockey-Bund
General manager	Christian Künast
Head coach	Harold Kreis
Assistants	Serge Aubin Rob Leask Alexander Sulzer
Captain	Moritz Seider
Most games	Udo Kießling (320)
Most points	Erich Kühnhackl (210)
Team colors
IIHF code	GER
Ranking
Current IIHF	7 (26 May 2025) [1]
Highest IIHF	5 (2021, 2023)
Lowest IIHF	13 (2014–15)
First international
England   1–0   Germany (Montreux, Switzerland; 10 January 1910)
Biggest win
Germany   14–0   Yugoslavia (Ljubljana, Slovenia; 10 February 2000)
Biggest defeat
Soviet Union   10–0   Germany (Zug, Switzerland; 7 December 1990)   Canada 10–0 Germany   (Prague, Czech Republic; 3 May 2015)
Olympics
Appearances	21 (first in 1928 )
Medals	Silver (2018) Bronze (1932, 1976)
IIHF World Championships
Appearances	70 (first in 1930 )
Best result	(1930, 1953, 2023)
European Championships
Appearances	8 (first in 1910 )
Best result	(1910, 1911, 1914)
International record (W–L–T)
585–827–120 [2]

Medal record
Olympic Games
	2018 Pyeongchang	Team
	1932 Lake Placid	Team
	1976 Innsbruck	Team
World Championship
	1930 Austria/France/Germany
	1953 Switzerland
	2023 Finland/Latvia
	1934 Italy
Pool B / Division I
	1966 Yugoslavia
	2000 Poland
	2006 France (Group A)
	1970 Romania
	1975 Japan
European Championship
	1910 Switzerland
	1911 Germany
	1912 Austria-Hungary
	1914 Germany
	1913 Germany
	1927 Austria

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. ^[3]

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.

• 
  Finland and Germany in 1993 World Championships
• 
  The German national team at the 2005 World Championship

Competition results

Olympic Games

Games	Coach	Captain	Finish
1928 St. Moritz	Erich Römer	Walter Sachs	9th
1932 Lake Placid	Erich Römer	Gustav Jaenecke	Bronze
1936 Garmisch-Partenkirchen	Val Hoffinger	Rudi Ball	5th
In 1949, Germany was split and was succeeded by West Germany and   East Germany
1948 St. Moritz	did not compete
1952 Oslo	Joe Aitken	Herbert Schibukat	8th
1956 Cortina d'Ampezzo	As United Team of Germany
	Frank Trottier	Paul Ambros	6th
1960 Squaw Valley	As United Team of Germany
	Karl Wild	Heinz Henschel	6th
1964 Innsbruck	As United Team of Germany
	Egen, Holderied, Unsinn	Ernst Trautwein	7th
1968 Grenoble	Ed Reigle	Heinz Bader	7th
1972 Sapporo	Gerhard Kießling	Alois Schloder	7th
1976 Innsbruck	Xaver Unsinn	Alois Schloder	Bronze
1980 Lake Placid	Hans Rampf	Rainer Philipp	10th
1984 Sarajevo	Xaver Unsinn	Erich Kühnhackl	5th
1988 Calgary	Xaver Unsinn	Udo Kießling	5th
In 1990 West and East Germany united back to   Germany
1992 Albertville	Luděk Bukač	Gerd Truntschka	7th
1994 Lillehammer	Luděk Bukač	Uli Hiemer	6th
1998 Nagano	George Kingston	Dieter Hegen	9th
2002 Salt Lake City	Hans Zach	Jürgen Rumrich	8th
2006 Turin	Uwe Krupp	Marcel Goc	10th
2010 Vancouver	Uwe Krupp	Marcel Goc	11th
2014 Sochi	did not qualify
2018 Pyeongchang	Marco Sturm	Marcel Goc	Silver
2022 Beijing	Toni Söderholm	Moritz Müller	10th
2026 Milan / Cortina	To be determined

Totals
Games	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
16	0	1	2	3

World Championship

Year	Location	Coach	Result
1930	Chamonix,   France / Vienna,   Austria / Berlin,   Germany	?	Silver
1931 Did not participate
1933	Prague,   Czechoslovakia	?	5th place
1934	Milan,   Italy	?	Bronze
1935	Davos,    Switzerland	?	9th place
1937	London,   Great Britain	?	4th place
1938	Prague,   Czechoslovakia	?	4th place
1939	Basel / Zürich,    Switzerland	?	5th place
1947-1951 Did not participate
In 1949, Germany was split and was succeeded by West Germany and   East Germany
1953	Basel / Zürich,    Switzerland	?	Silver
1954	Stockholm,   Sweden	?	5th place
1955	Düsseldorf / Dortmund / Krefeld / Cologne,   West Germany	?	6th place
1957-1958 Did not participate
1959	Prague / Brno / Ostrava,   Czechoslovakia	?	7th place
1961	Geneva / Lausanne,    Switzerland	?	8th place
1962	Colorado Springs / Denver,   United States	?	6th place
1963	Stockholm,   Sweden	?	7th place
1965	Turku / Rauma / Pori,   Finland	?	11th place (3rd place in Group B)
1966	Zagreb,   Yugoslavia	?	9th place (1st place in Group B)
1967	Vienna,   Austria	?	8th place (Relegated)
1969	Ljubljana,   Yugoslavia	?	10th place (4th place in Group B)
1970	Bucharest,   Romania	?	8th place (2nd place in Group B)
1971	Bern / Geneva,    Switzerland	?	5th place
1972	Prague,   Czechoslovakia	?	5th place
1973	Moscow,   Soviet Union	?	6th place (Relegated)
1974	Ljubljana,   Yugoslavia	?	9th place (3rd place in Group B)
1975	Sapporo,   Japan	?	8th place (2nd place in Group B)
1976	Katowice,   Poland	?	6th place
1977	Vienna,   Austria	?	7th place
1978	Prague,   Czechoslovakia	?	5th place
1979	Moscow,   Soviet Union	?	6th place
1981	Stockholm,   Sweden	?	7th place
1982	Helsinki / Tampere,   Finland	?	6th place
1983	Munich / Dortmund / Düsseldorf,   West Germany	?	5th place
1985	Prague,   Czechoslovakia	?	7th place
1986	Moscow,   Soviet Union	?	7th place
1987	Vienna,   Austria	?	6th place
1989	Stockholm / Södertälje,   Sweden	?	7th place
1990	Bern / Fribourg,    Switzerland	?	7th place
In 1990 West and East Germany united back to   Germany
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 / Milan,   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 [4]
2021	Riga,   Latvia	Toni Söderholm	4th place
2022	Tampere / Helsinki,   Finland	Toni Söderholm	7th place
2023	Tampere,   Finland / Riga,   Latvia	Harold Kreis	Silver
2024	Prague / Ostrava,   Czech Republic	Harold Kreis	6th place
2025	Stockholm,   Sweden / Herning,   Denmark	Harold Kreis	9th place
2026	Zurich / Fribourg,    Switzerland

European Championship

Year	GP	W	T	L	GF	GA	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).
1921-1926	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
1933–1991	After 1932, the European Championship medals were awarded based on the results of the Ice Hockey World Championships, with Germany receiving  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  Silver (as part of Team Europe)

Canada Cup

• 1984 – Finished in 6th place

Other tournaments

• Deutschland Cup: Gold medal (1995, 1996, 2009, 2010, 2012, 2014, 2015, 2021, 2022, 2023)
• Nissan Cup: Gold medal (1993)

Team

Current roster

Roster for the 2025 IIHF World Championship. ^{[5] [6]}

Head coach: Harold Kreis

No.	Pos.	Name	Height	Weight	Birthdate	Team
7	F	Maximilian Kastner	1.80 m (5 ft 11 in)	84 kg (185 lb)	(1993-01-03) 3 January 1993 (age 32)	EHC Red Bull München
11	D	Korbinian Geibel	1.84 m (6 ft 0 in)	91 kg (201 lb)	(2002-07-08) 8 July 2002 (age 23)	Eisbären Berlin
12	D	Eric Mik	1.82 m (6 ft 0 in)	83 kg (183 lb)	(2000-02-28) 28 February 2000 (age 25)	Eisbären Berlin
18	F	Tim Stützle	1.84 m (6 ft 0 in)	87 kg (192 lb)	(2002-01-15) 15 January 2002 (age 23)	Ottawa Senators
19	F	Wojciech Stachowiak – A	1.85 m (6 ft 1 in)	85 kg (187 lb)	(1999-07-03) 3 July 1999 (age 26)	ERC Ingolstadt
25	D	Leon Hüttl	1.82 m (6 ft 0 in)	80 kg (180 lb)	(2000-09-21) 21 September 2000 (age 24)	ERC Ingolstadt
30	G	Philipp Grubauer	1.85 m (6 ft 1 in)	84 kg (185 lb)	(1991-11-25) 25 November 1991 (age 33)	Seattle Kraken
31	G	Arno Tiefensee	1.93 m (6 ft 4 in)	87 kg (192 lb)	(2002-05-01) 1 May 2002 (age 23)	Adler Mannheim
35	G	Mathias Niederberger	1.80 m (5 ft 11 in)	80 kg (180 lb)	(1992-11-26) 26 November 1992 (age 32)	EHC Red Bull München
38	D	Fabio Wagner	1.82 m (6 ft 0 in)	83 kg (183 lb)	(1995-09-17) 17 September 1995 (age 29)	EHC Red Bull München
40	F	Alexander Ehl	1.75 m (5 ft 9 in)	76 kg (168 lb)	(1999-11-28) 28 November 1999 (age 25)	Adler Mannheim
41	D	Jonas Müller – A	1.83 m (6 ft 0 in)	88 kg (194 lb)	(1995-11-19) 19 November 1995 (age 29)	Eisbären Berlin
42	F	Yasin Ehliz	1.77 m (5 ft 10 in)	84 kg (185 lb)	(1992-12-30) 30 December 1992 (age 32)	EHC Red Bull München
44	F	Joshua Samanski	1.90 m (6 ft 3 in)	91 kg (201 lb)	(2002-03-22) 22 March 2002 (age 23)	Straubing Tigers
49	D	Lukas Kälble	1.88 m (6 ft 2 in)	93 kg (205 lb)	(1997-10-13) 13 October 1997 (age 27)	Adler Mannheim
50	F	Patrick Hager	1.78 m (5 ft 10 in)	80 kg (180 lb)	(1988-09-08) 8 September 1988 (age 36)	EHC Red Bull München
53	D	Moritz Seider – C	1.92 m (6 ft 4 in)	90 kg (200 lb)	(2001-04-06) 6 April 2001 (age 24)	Detroit Red Wings
55	D	Maksymilian Szuber	1.91 m (6 ft 3 in)	92 kg (203 lb)	(2002-08-25) 25 August 2002 (age 22)	Tucson Roadrunners
56	F	Manuel Wiederer	1.83 m (6 ft 0 in)	82 kg (181 lb)	(1996-11-21) 21 November 1996 (age 28)	Eisbären Berlin
65	F	Marc Michaelis	1.77 m (5 ft 10 in)	79 kg (174 lb)	(1995-07-31) 31 July 1995 (age 29)	Adler Mannheim
72	F	Dominik Kahun	1.80 m (5 ft 11 in)	79 kg (174 lb)	(1995-07-02) 2 July 1995 (age 30)	Lausanne HC
73	F	Lukas Reichel	1.83 m (6 ft 0 in)	78 kg (172 lb)	(2002-05-17) 17 May 2002 (age 23)	Chicago Blackhawks
74	F	Justin Schütz	1.81 m (5 ft 11 in)	82 kg (181 lb)	(2000-06-24) 24 June 2000 (age 25)	Adler Mannheim
83	F	Leonhard Pföderl	1.84 m (6 ft 0 in)	87 kg (192 lb)	(1993-09-01) 1 September 1993 (age 31)	Eisbären Berlin
92	F	Marcel Noebels	1.92 m (6 ft 4 in)	92 kg (203 lb)	(1992-03-14) 14 March 1992 (age 33)	Eisbären Berlin
95	F	Frederik Tiffels	1.83 m (6 ft 0 in)	87 kg (192 lb)	(1995-05-20) 20 May 1995 (age 30)	Eisbären Berlin

Retired numbers

• 20 – Robert Dietrich

80 - Robert Müller

Notable players

• 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
• 
  (West Germany) 1988 Olympic jerseys
• 
  1992 Olympic jerseys
• 
  1994 Olympic jersey
• 
  1998 Olympic jerseys
• 
  1999-2000 IIHF jerseys
• 
  former IIHF jerseys
• 
  2014–2017 IIHF jerseys
• 
  2018 Olympic jerseys
• 
  2018–2021 IIHF jerseys
• 
  2022 Olympic jerseys
• 
  2022– IIHF jerseys

All-time record

As of 20 May 2025.

Opponent	Played	Won	Drawn	Lost	GF	GA	GD
Australia	1	1	0	0	15	1	+14
Austria	56	38	4	14	185	86	+99
Belarus	29	10	2	17	69	83	-14
Belgium	14	9	1	4	69	32	+37
Bohemia	4	0	1	3	5	12	-7
Bulgaria	1	1	0	0	13	1	+12
Canada	132	19	7	106	251	674	-423
China	1	1	0	0	3	2	+1
Czech Republic	59	8	2	49	117	243	−126
Czechoslovakia	65	10	6	49	120	364	−244
Denmark	30	19	0	11	90	67	+23
East Germany	20	12	4	4	73	54	+19
England	10	6	1	3	40	23	+17
Estonia	2	2	0	0	7	3	+4
Finland	122	26	14	82	309	537	−228
France	47	27	4	16	138	97	+41
Great Britain	15	11	1	3	65	26	+39
Hungary	23	18	4	1	78	33	+45
Israel	1	1	0	0	11	2	+9
Italy	59	33	9	17	230	157	+73
Japan	23	21	0	2	138	57	+81
Kazakhstan	12	7	0	5	40	27	+13
Latvia	41	22	4	15	105	96	+9
Netherlands	11	10	1	0	79	23	+56
Norway	50	34	2	14	243	147	+96
Poland	54	31	7	16	192	161	+31
Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia	1	0	0	1	1	5	−4
Romania	21	17	0	4	100	57	+43
Russia	33	5	3	25	62	111	−49
Serbia and Montenegro	1	1	0	0	14	0	+14
Slovakia	87	38	2	47	206	234	-28
Slovenia	11	8	2	1	41	15	+26
South Korea	2	2	0	0	10	4	+6
Soviet Union	71	0	1	70	111	581	-470
Sweden	112	12	5	95	200	523	−323
Switzerland	161	72	16	73	528	456	+72
Ukraine	7	3	2	2	18	15	+3
United States	115	31	9	75	316	457	−141
Yugoslavia	33	21	5	7	173	111	+62
Total	1 535	586	119	831	4 461	5 566	-1 105

See also

• Germany men's national ice sledge hockey team
• East Germany national ice hockey team

References

1. "IIHF Men's World Ranking". IIHF. 26 May 2025. Retrieved 26 May 2025.
2. "Germany". National Teams of Ice Hockey. Retrieved 24 May 2025.
3. "Happy medal winners". International Ice Hockey Federation . 15 August 2018.
4. Steiss, Adam. "2020 IIHF Ice Hockey World Championship cancelled". iihf.com. IIHF. Retrieved 21 March 2020.
5. "WM-Vorbereitung: Bundestrainer Harold Kreis gibt Nominierung für abschließende Vorbereitungsphase bekannt". deb-online.de (in German). Retrieved 30 April 2025.
6. "Team roster: Germany" (PDF). iihf.com. 10 May 2025.

External links

• Official website
• IIHF profile
• National Teams of Ice Hockey