Werner Kaessmann won 114 international caps from 1969-78. He was among the West German field hockey team winning the gold medal at their home Olympics 1972 in München. The team won the final 1-0 against Pakistan. Therefore the team members were awarded the Silver Bay Leaf, Germany’s highest sports award.
Domestically, he played for Rot-Weiß Köln, and helped them win the West German Championship in 1972-74, and the national indoor title in 1974 and 1978. He later played tennis and golf. Kaessmann studied law in Köln, and became a lawyer and notary. In 1976 he became the club counsel of ADAC Westfalen (General German Car Club) and from 2004-16, the chief counsel of ADAC Germany. Kaessmann’s father Otto was also a hockey international.
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