Carsten Fischer

Carsten " Calle " Fischer ( born August 29, 1961 in Duisburg ) is a former German hockey player. Fischer was with the German national hockey team 1992 Olympic champion and German was capped player until he was replaced by Christian Mayerhöfer.

Life

Fischer began at age six with the German record champions HTC Uhlenhorst Mülheim. In 1981, he was with the German Junior National Team European Champion, World Champion in 1982. In 1984 in Los Angeles and in Seoul in 1988 he was a member of the German national team which won two silver medals at the Olympic Games. Fischer, who due to severe diabetes (type 1 diabetes ) lost his hair in 1991, led the German hockey team at the 1992 Olympic Games in Barcelona for winning the gold medal. After the Libero had already resigned, he celebrated his comeback in September 1995 and took part in its 1996 fourth Olympics where the German team but finished only fourth.

In addition, he was European champion in 1991 and 1988 to 1995 eight times European Cup Winners ' Cup with the HTC Uhlenhorst Mülheim. This record was not set until today. Carsten Fischer, Germany's most successful hockey players and was with 154 goals in 259 internationals also scorer until he was replaced by Bjorn Michel.

Fischer was in 2001 awarded by a jury headed by Franz Beckenbauer with the Georg von Opel - Price in 2001. DHB President Dr. Christoph Fischer tyrant had proposed on the basis of its commitment to diabetes education for this award.

Carsten Fischer has worked as a senior physician of Orthopaedics and Trauma Surgery, Elisabeth Hospital in Dorsten today. After he had during his playing career had no time for the dissertation, him the doctorate in medicine was awarded by the University of Hamburg in April 2010 after three years of effort, in addition to working in hospitals.