FRANZ REINDL

 (GER) - COUNCIL MEMBER

Franz Reindl was born in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany, on 24th November 1954. He still resides there.
 
Elected to the IIHF Council in 2016 and re-elected in 2021, he is currently chair of the IIHF Event & Championship and the Athletes Committees.

Reindl spent his whole life in hockey. As a top player in Germany, he won three German Championships and played 861 games - including 181 for the national team he represented in nine IIHF Ice Hockey World Championships, three Olympic Winter Games and one Canada Cup. He was on the team that won the Olympic bronze medal in Innsbruck in 1976.

After ending his career as a forward in 1988, he became a Head Coach and General Manager, first with his hometown team SC Riessersee, and then he joined the German Ice Hockey Association (DEB) in 1991, starting as an assistant to the technical director and national team assistant coach and then working his way up as Sports Director, Head Coach, General Secretary, CEO and finally as President for the past eight years. Between 1994 and 1996, he was also the CEO of the newly founded league DEL.
 
In addition, Reindl served as the General Secretary of the Organizing Committees for the 2001 and 2010 IIHF Ice Hockey World Championships in Germany and as CEO of the Organizing Committee for the 2017 IIHF Ice Hockey World Championship in Germany and France. He was also a member of the German bidding committees for the 2018 and 2022 Olympic Winter Games, and in 2015 he was named President of Team Europe for the 2016 World Cup of Hockey by the NHL and NHLPA.

During his 31 years with the German Ice Hockey Association, Reindl led the national teams as General Manager or President to 23 IIHF Ice Hockey World Championships, eight Olympic Winter Games, and two World Cups of Hockey. Team Germany won the Olympic Silver Medal in 2018 PyeongChang while he was President of the German Ice Hockey Association (DEB).

Reindl has been involved in several IIHF committees since 1998, most recently within Sports and Competition. From 2016 to 2021, he held the position of Chair of the IIHF Competition and Coordination Committee and represented the IIHF as Vice-President of the Champions Hockey League (CHL) 2018 – 2022.

Outside of hockey he worked as a Manager in wholesale and foreign trade and founded in 1976 his hardware store in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, which still exists today.