Robert Dietrich
Robert Dietrich (Russian Роберт Генрихович Дитрих / Robert Genrichowitsch Ditrich; born July 25, 1986 in Ordzhonikidze, Kazakh SSR; † 7 September 2011 in Tunoschna near Yaroslavl, Russia ) was a German ice hockey player of German-Russian descent, who during his career, including for the DEG Metro Stars and Adler Mannheim played in the German Ice Hockey League, the Milwaukee Admirals in the American Hockey League as well as Lokomotiv Yaroslavl in the Kontinental Hockey League on the position of the defender.
Career
Dietrich began at the age of four years with the hockey games, after his parents, descendants had moved from 1941 deported to Kazakhstan Volga Germans, with him to Germany. After he had gone through the youth academy at his hometown club ESV Kaufbeuren, he moved to the 2002/03 season in the junior team of Adler Mannheim, the young eagles Mannheim, where he was active in the German Junior League from now on. In July 2003, Dietrich acquired the high school at the comprehensive school Mannheim- Herzogenried. He then went into the season 2003/ 04 in you first team of EC Peiting. In the season 2004/ 05 he was active for the ETC Crimmitschau, scoring three goals and 14 assists. Since Crimmitschau in the Oberliga, the third- highest league in the German Ice Hockey, descent, Dietrich joined the Straubing Tigers. He was equipped with a mining license for the first division Düsseldorf DEG Metro Stars and played in the U20 national team.
In preparation for the 2005/ 06 season he was already working for the DEG Metro Stars, but only played in cup matches and staff shortages at the people of Düsseldorf. Otherwise, he ran on by the production license for second division Straubing, with whom he managed at the end of the season the championship in the second division and rose to the German Hockey League. Finally, for the season 2006 /07 he moved firmly to the DEG Metro Stars. However, due to the Föderlizenzregelung he could also be used at second division mosquitoes food. Due to its good performance in the preseason, he completed fully with DEG, coach Don Jackson appointed him but start of the season in the Düsseldorf squad.
In his first appearances in the German top flight Dietrich was so convincing that his contract was prematurely extended until 2009. In addition, the Nashville Predators selected him in the NHL Entry Draft in 2007 in the sixth round at 174th position. For the season 2008/ 09 he moved to the Predators, but it is only in their farm team, the Milwaukee Admirals, are used.
In the summer of 2010 he returned to Germany and played until the end of the season 2010/ 11 for the Adler Mannheim. In June 2011 he dissolved his contract running until 2013 and moved to Lokomotiv Yaroslavl in the Continental Hockey League.
Circumstances of death
September 7, 2011 Robert Dietrich and many other players of Lokomotiv Yaroslavl were killed in a plane crash near Yaroslavl killed. The machine type Yakovlev Yak -42 crashed shortly after takeoff on the Tunoschna airport after a collision with an antenna mast in the Tokscha, a tributary of the Volga, and crashed. She was on her way to the Belarusian capital Minsk, where the team was playing their season opening game of the KHL season 2011/12 against the HC Dinamo Minsk.
During the public memorial service on September 28, 2011 in Kaufbeuren the Secretary General of the DEB Franz Reindl said that Dietrich's shirt number 20 will in future no longer awarded.
Career Stats
Internationally
Represented Germany at:
- U18 World Junior Championships Division I 2004
- U20 World Junior Championships 2005
- U20 World Junior Championships Division I 2006
- World Cup 2007
- World Cup 2010
- World Cup 2011
( 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 )