Uli Hiemer

Ulrich " Uli " Hiemer ( born September 21, 1962 in Füssen) is a former German professional ice hockey player (defender), who in his active years 1979 and 1996, among others, for the New Jersey Devils of the National Hockey League as well as the EV Fussen, Cologne EC and the Düsseldorf EC has played in the hockey Bundesliga and the German Ice Hockey League. He is a member of the Hockey Hall of Fame in Germany.

Playing career

From the EV Füssen Coming, where he already played in the 1980/81 season in the first team squad in the Hockey League, he joined in the summer of 1981 for the Cologne EC. This year, the Colorado Rockies secured, which later moved to New Jersey in the NHL Entry Draft in 1981 in the third round of the rights to Hiemer and pulled him 48th in the summer of 1984, he became the first German player to North America, where he at the New Jersey Devils in the NHL and at the Maine Mariners came into the AHL for use.

For the 1987/88 season, he returned to the Bundesliga for Düsseldorf EG, where until 1993 he won the series championship in 1990. Even after the introduction of the German Ice Hockey League for the 1994/95 season he remained in Dusseldorf and ended his playing career in the summer of 1996 after the re- attainment of the German Championship.

With the national Uli Hiemer took part in the World Championships 1981, 1982, 1983, 1985, 1989, 1990, 1992, 1993 and 1995 and at the Winter Olympics in 1984, 1992 and 1994.

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After the career

Today he operates two McDonald's outlets in Bavaria. The stores in Werdohl and Lüdenscheid he has now abandoned. Uli Hiemer was as a friend of the rock band Die Toten Hosen in 1996 guest singers in the recording to the song Ten Little Jagermeister from the album opium of the people.