It’s been 70 years on Saturday
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The Krefelder EV becomes German champion for the first time
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The successful KEV team from the 1960s.
Photo: private / Private
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Krefeld On March 12, 1952, Krefelder EV became German champions in ice hockey for the first time. Players will be recognized and greeted on the street. This sporting success is changing the city forever.
Next Saturday, March 12th, it will be exactly 70 years since Krefeld EV celebrated its first championship title in ice hockey. The team at that time won in Mannheim in front of 9,000 spectators in a decisive game that had become necessary with 6:4 against the favored SC Riessersee.
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On the occasion of this anniversary, Wolf (Lupus) invited Herbst to a press conference, who himself used to play as a goalkeeper. But he was more active for Prussia Krefeld, which also had an ice hockey department until 1971. The Prussians had become German champions in 1951. Erich Konecki, who died in 2006 at the age of 86, was the only player to feature in both championship teams. His son Ralf, who was born in the master year, reviewed his father’s career: “My father was born in Riga. Towards the end of the war he had to flee from the Russians and first came to Augsburg. In 1948 we continued to Krefeld. Here he met my mother, first played for Prussia and then for KEV 2.” In 1956 Konecki moved to Mannheim, where he later ended his career. The family then settled down in Dortmund. He got a job there as manager of the ice rink.
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One of four living legends from the 1952 championship team is Hans-Werner Münstermann. By the way, like Konecki, he contributed a goal to the 6:4 victory in the decisive game. “The championship was the pinnacle back then, we did everything for it,” he says.
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When asked how the championship title in Krefeld was to be classified, how the players were perceived in public, Münstermann replies: “Thanks to the successes in football, ice hockey was number two in Krefeld at the time. But the championship suddenly took a backseat to football and ice hockey was number one in town. When we walked through Krefeld, people recognized us and even waved from across the street. That meant an incredible amount of recognition for us.”
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