| Germany | |
| Badge: | Coat of arms of Germany.svg |
| Badge Size: | 145px |
| Nickname: | Träger der Adler (Bearers of the Eagle) |
| Association: | Deutscher Eishockey-Bund |
| Coach: | Harold Kreis |
| Asst Coach: | Serge Aubin Alexander Sulzer |
| Captain: | Moritz Müller |
| Most Games: | Udo Kießling (320) |
| Most Points: | Erich Kühnhackl (210) |
| Iihf Code: | GER |
| Iihf Max: | 5 |
| Iihf Max Date: | 2021, 2023 |
| Iihf Min: | 13 |
| Iihf Min Date: | 2014–15 |
| First Game: | 1–0 |
| Largest Win: | 14–0 |
| Largest Loss: | 10–0 10–0 |
| Olympic Apps: | 21 |
| Olympic First: | 1928 |
| Olympic Medals: | Silver (2018) Bronze (1932, 1976) |
| World Champ Apps: | 69 |
| World Champ First: | 1930 |
| World Champ Best: | (1930, 1953, 2023) |
| Regional Name: | European Championships |
| Regional Cup Apps: | 8 |
| Regional Cup First: | 1910 |
| Regional Cup Best: | (1910, 1911, 1914) |
| Record: | 572–814–119 |
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]
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; 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.
| Games | Coach | Captain | Finish | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9th | |||||||||||
| 5th | |||||||||||
| In 1949, Germany was split and was succeeded by West Germany and | |||||||||||
| did not compete | |||||||||||
 Joe Aitken | 8th | ||||||||||
| As United Team of Germany | |||||||||||
| 6th | |||||||||||
| As United Team of Germany | |||||||||||
| 6th | |||||||||||
| As United Team of Germany | |||||||||||
| 7th | |||||||||||
| 7th | |||||||||||
| 7th | |||||||||||
| 10th | |||||||||||
| 5th | |||||||||||
| 5th | |||||||||||
| In 1990 West and East Germany united back to | |||||||||||
| 7th | |||||||||||
| 6th | |||||||||||
| 9th | |||||||||||
| 8th | |||||||||||
| 10th | |||||||||||
| 11th | |||||||||||
| did not qualify | |||||||||||
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| 10th | |||||||||||
| To be determined | |||||||||||
| Year | Location | Coach | Result | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chamonix, / Vienna, / Berlin, | ? | Silver | ||
| 1931 Did not participate | ||||
| Prague, | ? | 5th place | ||
| Milan, | ? | Bronze | ||
| Davos, | ? | 9th place | ||
| London, | ? | 4th place | ||
| Prague, | ? | 4th place | ||
| Basel / Zürich, | ? | 5th place | ||
| 1947-1951 Did not participate | ||||
| In 1949, Germany was split and was succeeded by West Germany and | ||||
| Basel / Zürich, | ? | Silver | ||
| Stockholm, | ? | 5th place | ||
| Düsseldorf / Dortmund / Krefeld / Cologne, | ? | 6th place | ||
| 1957-1958 Did not participate | ||||
| Prague / Brno / Ostrava, | ? | 7th place | ||
| Geneva / Lausanne, | ? | 8th place | ||
| Colorado Springs / Denver, | ? | 6th place | ||
| Stockholm, | ? | 7th place | ||
| Turku / Rauma / Pori, | ? | 11th place (3rd place in Group B) | ||
| Zagreb, | ? | 9th place (1st place in Group B) | ||
| Vienna, | ? | 8th place (Relegated) | ||
| Ljubljana, | ? | 10th place (4th place in Group B) | ||
| Bucharest, | ? | 8th place (2nd place in Group B) | ||
| Bern / Geneva, | ? | 5th place | ||
| Prague, | ? | 5th place | ||
| Moscow, | ? | 6th place (Relegated) | ||
| Ljubljana, | ? | 9th place (3rd place in Group B) | ||
| Sapporo, | ? | 8th place (2nd place in Group B) | ||
| Katowice, | ? | 6th place | ||
| Vienna, | ? | 7th place | ||
| Prague, | ? | 5th place | ||
| Moscow, | ? | 6th place | ||
| Stockholm, | ? | 7th place | ||
| Helsinki / Tampere, | ? | 6th place | ||
| Munich / Dortmund / Düsseldorf, | ? | 5th place | ||
| Prague, | ? | 7th place | ||
| Moscow, | ? | 7th place | ||
| Vienna, | ? | 6th place | ||
| Stockholm / Södertälje, | ? | 7th place | ||
| Bern / Fribourg, | ? | 7th place | ||
| In 1990 West and East Germany united back to | ||||
| Turku / Helsinki / Tampere, | 8th place | |||
| Prague / Bratislava, | 6th place | |||
| Dortmund / Munich, | 5th place | |||
| Bolzano / Canazei / Milan, | 9th place | |||
| Stockholm / Gävle, | 9th place | |||
| Vienna, | 8th place | |||
| Helsinki / Turku / Tampere, | 11th place | |||
| Zürich / Basel, | 11th place (Relegated) | |||
| Odense / Rødovre, | 20th place (4th place in Pool B) | |||
| Katowice / Kraków, | 17th place (Won Pool B) | |||
| Cologne / Hanover / Nuremberg, | 8th place | |||
| Gothenburg / Karlstad / Jönköping, | 8th place | |||
| Helsinki / Tampere / Turku, | 7th place | |||
| Prague / Ostrava, | 9th place | |||
| Innsbruck / Vienna, | 15th place (Relegated) | |||
| Amiens, | 17th place (Won Division I, Group A) | |||
| Moscow / Mytishchi, | 7th place | |||
| Quebec City / Halifax, | 10th place | |||
| Bern / Kloten, | 15th place | |||
| Cologne / Mannheim / Gelsenkirchen, | 4th place | |||
| Bratislava / Košice, | 7th place | |||
| Helsinki, / Stockholm, | 12th place | |||
| Stockholm, / Helsinki, | 9th place | |||
| Minsk, | 14th place | |||
| Prague / Ostrava, | 10th place | |||
| Moscow / Saint Petersburg, | 7th place | |||
| Cologne, / Paris, | 8th place | |||
| Copenhagen / Herning, | 11th place | |||
| Bratislava / Košice, | 6th place | |||
| Zürich / Lausanne, | Cancelled[2] | |||
| Riga, | 4th place | |||
| Tampere / Helsinki, | 7th place | |||
| Tampere, / Riga, | Silver | |||
| Prague / Ostrava, | 6th place | |||
| Stockholm, / Herning, | ||||
| Year | GP | W | T | L | GF | GA | Finish | Rank | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| bgcolor=silver | 1910 Les Avants | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 17 | 5 | Round-robin | |||
| 1911 Berlin | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 20 | 1 | Round-robin | ||||
| bgcolor=silver | 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 in 1930 and 1934. | ||||||||||
Gold medal (1995, 1996, 2009, 2010, 2012, 2014, 2015, 2021, 2022, 2023)
Gold medal (1993)
Roster for the 2024 IIHF World Championship.[3] [4]
Head coach: Harold Kreis
| No. | Pos. | Name | Height | Weight | Birthdate | Team | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 | D | 1.95m (06.4feet) | 102abbr=onNaNabbr=on | 6 September 1997 | HC Ambrì-Piotta | ||
| 6 | D | 1.9m (06.2feet) | 88abbr=onNaNabbr=on | 22 October 1996 | Eisbären Berlin | ||
| 7 | F | 1.8m (05.9feet) | 84abbr=onNaNabbr=on | 3 January 1993 | Red Bull München | ||
| 17 | F | 1.83m (06feet) | 81abbr=onNaNabbr=on | 4 March 1998 | Eisbären Berlin | ||
| 19 | F | 1.85m (06.07feet) | 85abbr=onNaNabbr=on | 3 July 1999 | ERC Ingolstadt | ||
| 27 | D | 1.91m (06.27feet) | 92abbr=onNaNabbr=on | 25 August 2002 |  Arizona Coyotes | ||
| 30 | G | 1.85m (06.07feet) | 84abbr=onNaNabbr=on | 25 November 1991 | Seattle Kraken | ||
| 33 | F | 1.8m (05.9feet) | 85abbr=onNaNabbr=on | 14 January 2002 | Buffalo Sabres | ||
| 35 | G | 1.8m (05.9feet) | 80abbr=onNaNabbr=on | 26 November 1992 | Red Bull München | ||
| 38 | D | 1.82m (05.97feet) | 83abbr=onNaNabbr=on | 17 September 1995 | ERC Ingolstadt | ||
| 40 | F | 1.75m (05.74feet) | 76abbr=onNaNabbr=on | 28 November 1999 | Düsseldorfer EG | ||
| 41 | D | 1.83m (06feet) | 88abbr=onNaNabbr=on | 19 November 1995 | Eisbären Berlin | ||
| 42 | F | Yasin Ehliz – A | 1.77m (05.81feet) | 84abbr=onNaNabbr=on | 30 December 1992 | Red Bull München | |
| 45 | G | 1.86m (06.1feet) | 82abbr=onNaNabbr=on | 27 February 2001 | Kölner Haie | ||
| 49 | D | 1.88m (06.17feet) | 93abbr=onNaNabbr=on | 13 October 1997 | Adler Mannheim | ||
| 62 | F | 1.76m (05.77feet) | 77abbr=onNaNabbr=on | 31 October 1995 | Kölner Haie | ||
| 65 | F | 1.77m (05.81feet) | 79abbr=onNaNabbr=on | 31 July 1995 | Adler Mannheim | ||
| 72 | F | Dominik Kahun – A | 1.8m (05.9feet) | 79abbr=onNaNabbr=on | 2 July 1995 | SC Bern | |
| 73 | F | 1.83m (06feet) | 78abbr=onNaNabbr=on | 17 May 2002 | Chicago Blackhawks | ||
| 77 | F | 1.8m (05.9feet) | 80abbr=onNaNabbr=on | 19 August 1993 | Adler Mannheim | ||
| 78 | F | 1.89m (06.2feet) | 85abbr=onNaNabbr=on | 3 May 1995 | San Jose Sharks | ||
| 79 | F | 1.86m (06.1feet) | 88abbr=onNaNabbr=on | 24 September 1999 | Iserlohn Roosters | ||
| 83 | F | 1.82m (05.97feet) | 87abbr=onNaNabbr=on | 1 September 1993 | Eisbären Berlin | ||
| 91 | D | Moritz Müller – C | 1.87m (06.14feet) | 92abbr=onNaNabbr=on | 19 November 1986 | Kölner Haie | |
| 95 | F | 1.83m (06feet) | 87abbr=onNaNabbr=on | 20 May 1995 | Eisbären Berlin |
80 - Robert Müller
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| Opponent | Played | Won | Drawn | Lost | GF | GA | GD | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 15 | 1 | +14 | ||
| 51 | 34 | 4 | 13 | 166 | 80 | +86 | ||
| 29 | 10 | 2 | 17 | 69 | 83 | -14 | ||
| 14 | 9 | 1 | 4 | 69 | 32 | +37 | ||
| 4 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 12 | -7 | ||
| 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 13 | 1 | +12 | ||
| 132 | 19 | 7 | 106 | 251 | 674 | -423 | ||
| 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 2 | +1 | ||
| 56 | 8 | 2 | 46 | 117 | 230 | −113 | ||
| 65 | 10 | 6 | 49 | 120 | 364 | −244 | ||
| 28 | 19 | 0 | 9 | 84 | 59 | +25 | ||
| 20 | 12 | 4 | 4 | 73 | 54 | +19 | ||
| 10 | 6 | 1 | 3 | 40 | 23 | +17 | ||
| 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 3 | +4 | ||
| 122 | 26 | 14 | 82 | 309 | 537 | −228 | ||
| 44 | 25 | 4 | 15 | 125 | 86 | +39 | ||
| 15 | 11 | 1 | 3 | 65 | 26 | +39 | ||
| 22 | 17 | 4 | 1 | 72 | 32 | +40 | ||
| 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 11 | 2 | +9 | ||
| 59 | 33 | 9 | 17 | 230 | 157 | +73 | ||
| 23 | 21 | 0 | 2 | 138 | 57 | +81 | ||
| 10 | 5 | 0 | 5 | 28 | 24 | +4 | ||
| 40 | 21 | 4 | 15 | 97 | 95 | +2 | ||
| 11 | 10 | 1 | 0 | 79 | 23 | +56 | ||
| 49 | 33 | 2 | 14 | 238 | 145 | +93 | ||
| 53 | 30 | 7 | 16 | 188 | 159 | +29 | ||
| Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 5 | −4 | |
| 21 | 17 | 0 | 4 | 100 | 57 | +43 | ||
| 33 | 5 | 3 | 25 | 62 | 111 | −49 | ||
| 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 14 | 0 | +14 | ||
| 81 | 36 | 2 | 43 | 194 | 211 | -17 | ||
| 11 | 8 | 2 | 1 | 41 | 15 | +26 | ||
| 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 10 | 4 | +6 | ||
| 71 | 0 | 1 | 70 | 111 | 581 | -470 | ||
| 110 | 12 | 5 | 93 | 198 | 514 | −316 | ||
| 160 | 72 | 16 | 72 | 527 | 451 | +76 | ||
| 7 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 18 | 15 | +3 | ||
| 112 | 31 | 9 | 72 | 310 | 440 | −130 | ||
| 33 | 21 | 5 | 7 | 173 | 111 | +62 | ||
| Total | 1 505 | 572 | 119 | 814 | 4 367 | 5 465 | -1 098 |