Xaver Unsinn

{{short description|German ice hockey player and coach}}

{{Infobox ice hockey player

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| birth_date = {{birth date|df=yes|1929|11|29}}

| birth_place = Füssen, Germany

| death_date = {{death date and age|2012|1|4|1929|11|29|df=yes}}

| death_place = Füssen, Germany

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| position = Forward

| shoots = Right

| played_for = EV Füssen (Bundesliga)
ESV Kaufbeuren (Bundesliga)

| ntl_team = FRG

| career_start = 1950

| career_end = 1962

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Xaver Unsinn (29 November 1929 – 4 January 2012) was a German ice hockey player and coach. His greatest success was winning the bronze medal at the 1976 Winter Olympics as coach of the German national team.{{cite news|title="Mr. Eishockei" Xaver Unsinn verstorben|date=5 January 2012|work=Kicker|language=de|location=Nuremberg, Germany|url=https://www.kicker.de/mr-eishockei-xaver-unsinn-verstorben-562848/artikel|access-date=3 July 2023}} He also competed at the 1952 and 1960 Winter Olympics.{{Cite web|url=https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/un/xaver-unsinn-1.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200417223130/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/un/xaver-unsinn-1.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=2020-04-17 |title=Xaver Unsinn |access-date=2012-01-09|work=sports-reference.com}}

Unsinn was coach of the German national team on three occasions, 1964, 1975 to 1977 and, again, from 1981 to 1990, coaching the team in 221 internationals.

As a player, he spent most of his career with the EV Füssen, which he won eight national German championships with. As a club coach he also won three German and one Swiss national championships with the Düsseldorfer EG, Berliner SC and SC Bern.[https://www.faz.net/aktuell/sport/wintersport/xaver-unsinn-wird-80-mister-eishockei-1886890.html Mister „Eishockei“] {{in lang|de}} Frankfurter Allgemeine, published: 29 November 2009, accessed: 7 January 2011

He was awarded the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany,[http://www.focus.de/sport/wintersport/eishockey-mr-eishockei-xaver-unsinn-wird-80_aid_458427.html „Mr. Eishockei“ Xaver Unsinn wird 80] {{in lang|de}} focus.de, published: 29 November 2009, accessed: 7 January 2011 and was inducted into the IIHF Hall of Fame in 1998.{{cite news|url=http://bz-duisburg.de/DEB/Eish%20personen.htm|title=Eishockeypersönlichkeiten Deutschlands|work=Bürgerzeitung Duisburg|location=Duisburg, Germany|language=de|year=2003|access-date=25 June 2023}}

He died on 4 January 2012.[http://www.corbisimages.com/stock-photo/rights-managed/42-31666020/xaver-unsinn-has-died Xaver Unsinn has died]