Hans Zach
Hans Zach (born 30 March 1949 in Bad Tolz ) is a former German professional ice hockey player and coach since January 2014 the Adler Mannheim. A trained butcher and diploma Hockey coach was from 1999 to 2004 coach of the German national team. In 2003 he published his autobiography I, the Alps volcano.
- 2.1 International
- 3.1 club coach
- 3.2 National Coach
The player
Zach began his career in the youth department of the EC Bad Tölz. From the 1967/68 season he was a member of the first team, with whom he was in the then highest German league, the Bundesliga, active. In his first season he scored 21 points scorer already in 26 league games. The trained striker stayed for two more years in his home town of Bad Tölz and changed in the summer of 1970 within the league to SC Riessersee. There he stood four seasons under contract. For the season 1974/75 he joined the Berlin Schlittschuhclub. After an average first year in Berlin, he was able to increase significantly. In the 1976/77 season he made the final breakthrough and was achieved with 54 points to the best scorers in the Bundesliga.
Then could convince him to go for the EVL on the ice, the management of the EV Landshut. Also in Landshut was Zach to the service providers and within the team 's best scorers. The 79 season was 1978 / his best when he was able to score 60 times in 42 games. After this season, he joined the Sports Federation Rosenheim, who was at that time one of the most successful German club. With the Rosenheimern Zach was able to win the only German Champion title of his playing career in 1982 after a final victory over the Mannheimer ERC. At the end of the 1983/84 season he ended his hockey career at the age of 35 years. Overall, he played more than 600 top-flight games, scoring over 260 goals.
Internationally
As an international, he scored 16 goals in 80 internationals. For the national team of the Federal Republic of Germany, he participated in the A-WC 1976, 1977, 1978 and 1979, at the 1969 World Championships and the Olympic B Hockey Tournament 1980.
Career Stats
Internationally
Represented Germany at:
- B- World Cup 1969
- A World Cup 1976
- A World Cup 1977
- A World Cup 1978
- Olympic Games 1980
( Key to Career statistics: Sp or GP = Games Played, T or G = goals scored, V or A = achieved assists; Pts or Pts = scored points scorer, SM or PIM = received penalty minutes, / - = Plus / Minus balance sheet; PP = scored majority gates; SH = scored shorthanded goals, GW = achieved victory gates; Play-downs/Relegation 1 )
The coach
Club coach
Between 1985 and 1987, Hans Zach youth coach at SB Rosenheim and assistant junior national coach Rampf the German Ice Hockey Federation. In 1987 he graduated from the Sports University in Cologne the course as a graduate hockey coach and 1988 valedictorian. At the same time, he coached the EC Ratingen in the big leagues. Here, as in the following commitment 1988/90 at SV Bayreuth in the 2nd Bundesliga, he was selected in each case as the "Best coach in the league" before he joined in 1990 as a coach for the German champions Düsseldorf EC.
With the people of Düsseldorf Zach won the German championship in his first season. DEG defeated in the play-off final with 3-2 victories the Rhine rivals Cologne. It was followed by two more championships in the subsequent two years. Here, Zach won in the 1991/92 season in the final against his former club, the SB Rosenheim, and a season later against the Kölner EC. The work in Dusseldorf was 1995/96 interrupted by a year at the Kassel Huskies, 1996/97 was Zach but again at the Brehmstraße in Dusseldorf at the gang.
1997 Zach tried his luck in Switzerland, but was released after a few months at the Zurich SC. In the following years he coached again successfully the Kassel Huskies, which he brought into the play-off semi-final in four seasons, three times. From 2002 to 2006 he coached the Kölner Haie. In summer 2006, the leaders of the Hannover Scorpions him outfitted them with a contract. Zach led the team to the Scorpions in the 2008 /09 season after a second place in the standings after the main round of the play-off semi-finals. This was the hitherto most successful season the club's history. Then, his contract was extended in 2009 until the end of the season 2009/10. In the 2009/10 season he won with the Scorpions first German coach in the DEL ( German and first since 1993, also Zach ) the German championship.
On 1 January 2014 Zach was the successor to the dismissed head coach Harold Kreis at the Adler Mannheim.
Germany coach
In June 1998, Hans Zach national coach of the DEB - selection. He led the German team out of the B- World Cup, and reached three World Cup quarter- finals and eighth place in the Olympic ice hockey tournament in 2002 in Salt Lake City.
Even though Zach had re-issued before the start of World Cup 2004, only the non-relegation as a target, there has been criticism of the players choice and at his training style after the failed quarter-final qualification, especially through the press. This criticism prompted Zach, not to renew his contract. His successor as national coach was after the care of the team in the transitional period by Ernst Höfner in 2004 the American Greg Poss.
Literary work
- Hans Zach: I, the Alps volcano. The autobiography of the Ice Hockey Federation coach. Pfaffenweiler: Weropress, 2003, ISBN 3-9808049-8-4. .