Otto Schneitberger

Defender Otto Schneitberger placed sixth with the West German ice hockey team at the 1960 Squaw Valley Olympic Games. With Schneitberger, the German team placed seventh at both Innsbruck in 1964 and Grenoble in 1968. He earned 119 caps with the national team.

Domestically Schneitberger played with EC Bad Tölz until 1964 and helped win the West German national title in 1962. He then moved to Düsseldorfer EG and was banned for 18 months as it was not common in the 1960s to move without formal consent from the player’s home club. In 1967, 1972 and 1975 Schneitberger helped Düsseldorf to win three national titles. In 1975 he moved to Krefelder EV and started a career as a coach. He also later coached Düsseldorfer EG, Kölner EC, ECD Iserlohn, EV Duisburg and Ratinger Ice Aliens, but continued to work as an architect during his coaching career.

Schneitberger was inducted into the German Ice Hockey Hall of Fame in 2006, and was named that year as the greatest all-time player for Düsseldorfer EG.