Peter Schiller

Peter Schiller started his sporting career in his Bavarian hometown Selb, where he played ice hockey and football, before making hockey his preference and moving to Cologne in 1975. There, he trained as an assistant tax accountant and joined the top German club Kölner EC. Within a few years he became one of the club’s most valuable wingers, winning the German championship in 1977 and 1979. He stayed with the club during a period of financial difficulty and led them to another two German titles in 1984 and 1986.

Schiller then moved to rivals Mannheimer ERC. Even though the club regularly reached the play-offs, they failed to win the title, mostly losing out to his former club, Kölner. From 1991, Schiller played two more seasons with EHC Dynamo Berlin (later Eisbären Berlin) before he had to give up professional hockey due to damaged spinal disks. He won 94 caps for the German national team playing in, amongst others, the 1988 Olympics, scoring two goals, four World Championships (1981-1983, and 1986) and the 1984 Canada Cup. He died from heart failure at the age of 62.