EK Engelmann Wien

  • German Champion 1939
  • 2-times Austrian Cup winners

The hockey club Engelmann (short EKE ) was an Austrian ice hockey club from the capital Vienna, which was created by change of name from which was founded in 1922 Pötzleinsdorfer Sports Club (PSC). The EKE existed from 1932 until 1957.

  • 2.1 The PSC
  • 2.2 The EKE

History

Pötzleinsdorfer Sports Club

The Hockey Club Pötzleinsdorfer Sports Club (PSC) was founded in 1922 and played once in the top Wienerliga, in what was then the Austrian champions in ice hockey has been played. He was strongly associated with the art ice rink Engelmann and therefore postal mail at the address sports field Engelmann, Vienna, Jörgerstr. 24, home. This fact contributed to the PSC played a good hockey. For the first years of his playing time lack of information on its Board of Directors. On November 21, 1932, the General Assembly of Pötzleinsdorfer Sports clubs took on the premises of a skating rink Engelmann the decision to rename the club in ice hockey club Engelmann.

Austrian Hockey Championship

In his first hockey season 1922/23, the Pötzleinsdorfer Sports Club is listed among the teams participating in the championship. Other results are not known. 1923/24, the Austrian Hockey Championship will be conducted in two groups. The PSC reached the second place in the first group. In the deciding match for the championship against the WEV on 24 February 1924, the game two times must be extended before the WEV can score the winning goal. In the 1924/25 season, the championship has to be canceled due to inclement weather. Since the WEV has completed most of the games, there is no Austrian champions for this season and therefore no placement for the Pötzleinsdorfer Sports Club. The second team of the PSC took part in the games of the championship. In the season 1925/26, the PSC entered again with a First and Second team. It was played in only one class in the championship after the "Vienna System". The PSC joined with the First Team after a few games from participating in the championship back. Despite this withdrawal, the PSK in the season 1926/27, could start again in the first class and was 3rd behind the clubs WEV I and II WEV The PSC II was first in the 1st group of the second class. As more clubs joined the hockey association, was in 1927/28 played in a first class and a first class Reserver and a 2nd class with two groups. The First Team of the PSC was second behind the WEV and II team reached in the reserve championship for 1st class also took second place behind the WEV II 1928/29, was another change in the class division made ​​by the hockey association. It output a first class with six clubs, a 2nd class with groups A, B and C, and a reserve championship with groups A and B. It followed the PSC continue the trauma against the WEV in the championship not to win. In the first class of the PSC was I, second behind the WEV I in the reserve group A of PSC II was second behind the WEV II and in Group B, the reserve of PSC III, second behind the WEV III.

Due to the ever new clubs in the hockey association had to be divided in the season 1929/30, the first class in a group A and B. The second class was given two groups and also the reserve. The Pötzleinsdorfer SK was taken in the group B of the first class and the WEV in the A group. Both teams reached the first place in their group. In the playoff between the two teams on February 19, 1930, WEV wins 2-0 and is Austrian Champion. In the 1930/31 season, the groups in the Austrian Championship remain, as in the previous year. The WEV is again Group Winner Group A, Group B winner will be the WAC and behind the PSK I second.

Before the season 1931/32 was again a change in classification, after the first two teams of the two groups of the first class are required to complete a final round. In the first group, the WEV and HC Waehring qualified for the final round, the PSC and the WAC in the second group. In the game on 29 January 1932 on the Engelmann - space then the championship between the Pötzleinsdorfer Sports Club and the Vienna skating club decides. The PSC will win 2-1 in front of 5000 spectators and is thus for the first time Austrian Hockey champion.

Hockey Club Engelmann

The hockey club Engelmann ( EKE ) was established on November 21, 1932 by renaming from the Pötzleinsdorfer Sports Club. Two players - Hans Tatzer and Hans Schneider - the EKE participated from May 18 to August 2, 1937 on the Travel Vienna Ice Skating Association ( WEV ) to South Africa for the opening of the Ice Palace in Johannesburg. During the opening eight games against South Africa were held South African representative teams and local clubs.

1936 won the EKE Wiener Championship and qualified for the final against the provincial champions at the state championship. Since the Klagenfurt athletics sports club did not compete for this game, the EKE was declared the national champion.

In the season 1937/38, the EKE played together with the WEV, Wiener AC and EK Brigittenau in the league of the Austrian Ice Hockey Federation to the Vienna Cup and reached the first place, WEV was second. Both teams thus played in the State League along with the KAC and the German Sports Club Leoben to the Austrian National Championship title in 1938. Here won the Hockey Club Engelmann before Klagenfurt athletics sports club. The decision for the championship began on March 1, 1938 in Game EK Engelmann - Wiener EV, as the EKE the WEV defeated thanks to goals from Tatzer, Voit and Zehetmayer 3-2 and thus Austrian champion 1938.

With the annexation of Austria in March 1938, no Austrian Championships were possible. In the German Ice Hockey Cup 1938/39, the EKE was assigned as Austrian Hockey Champion of Group A and Group B of the KAC. Against the EKE played with teams such as the Berlin Schlittschuhclub, the Rastenburger SV, ESV feet and the LTCC Rot-Weiß Berlin. EKE and Berlin Schlittschuhclub reached the semi-finals on points with 6:2. There they defeated their opponents and reach the final. 8000 spectators at the Hockey Club Engelmann defeated the Berlin Schlittschuhclub 1-0 through a goal from Hans Schneider 17 seconds before the final whistle.

After the Second World War, the club moved from the destroyed Engelmann space on the WEV the plant. Also on the new place of EK Engelmann celebrated his successes and won the first post-war championship of the season 1945 /46.

In 1948, the Vienna Ice Skating Association and the EK Engelmann from synergistic reasons - they both played in the same place - the Vienna Ice Sports Association. Wiener EC celebrated until its dissolution in 1951 in the years 1949, 1950 and 1951, at least three times in a row, winning the Austrian Championship title. After the dissolution of the Vienna EG EK Engelmann came back as an independent club in the championship, which was won in 1956 and again in 1957. In 1957, the club was finally disbanded for economic reasons.

Achievements

When PSK

As EKE

Winner of the International badge

  • Hans Tatzer: 1927, 1928, 1929, 1930, 1932, 1933, 1934, 1935, 1936, 1937,
  • Josef Göbl: 1936
  • Hans Ertl: 1928, 1929, 1930, 1931, 1933
  • Ernst Schmucker: 1929, 1930, 1932, 1933
  • Karl Ördögh: 1928, 1932, 1933, 1934, 1935, 1936, 1937
  • Oskar Nowak: 1933, 1934, 1935, 1936, 1937,
  • Peregrin Spevak: 1926, 1927, 1928, 1929
  • Francis Schüssler 1934, 1935, 1936
  • Franz Csöngei: 1935, 1936, 1937
  • Kurt Wollinger: 1925, 1926, 1927
  • Kurt Stuchly: 1932, 1934
  • Hans Schneider: 1935
  • Josef Wurm: 1935
  • Ferdinand Bidla: 1926
  • Konrad Glatz: 1929
  • Louis Goldschmiedt: 1925
List of German ice hockey champions EC KAC 1939 German Ice Hockey Championship
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