Michael Peter won 261 international caps (including 45 indoor) from 1969-84, which stood as a West German record for many years. He won the Olympic gold medal at München in 1972 and the silver medal at Los Angeles in 1984, when he was the only member of the München team in the squad. At Montréal in 1976, the team finished a disappointing fifth, and due to the US-led boycott of the Moskva Games, Peter could not participate. At the Worlds he won silver in 1982 and bronze in 1973 and 1975. At the Europeans he won gold in 1978, silver in 1974 and bronze in 1983, he also won gold at the European Indoors in 1974, 1976 and 1984.
Domestically, Peter played for HC Heidelberg, and helped them win the West German Championship in 1982, and the indoor title in 1971. Peter was known as the “Franz Beckenbauer“ of German hockey, not only because of his success, but because of his very relaxed way of playing the sport. Like team-mates Peter Kraus and Rainer Seifert, Peter spent his entire working life with the German car manufacturer Opel.
West Germany