Important milestone with regard to the 2027 IIHF Ice Hockey World Championship in Germany: The Deutscher Eishockey-Bund e. V (DEB) has a last Thursday, March 21, 2024 100 percent subsidiary based in Munich founded to host the world's largest annual winter sports event.
The 2027 IIHF Ice Hockey World Championship in Germany will be held in May 2027, the official World Cup venues are Düsseldorf and Mannheim. Last May he had DEB convinced with its World Cup application concept at the annual IIHF congress and received 75 percent of the delegate votes in the award election. The last one was DEB In 2017, together with France, they hosted the World Cup.
The sole shareholder of the newly founded GmbH is the Deutscher Eishockey-Bund. V., the current one acts as a representative of the company DEB-Presidium consisting of Dr. Peter Merten (President) as well as Vice Presidents Hauke Hasselbring, Marc Hindelang and Andreas Niederberger. Claus Gröbner is appointed as managing director of the GmbH. The official company name of the GmbH is: 2027 Eishockey WM Organizationsgesellschaft mbH.
DEB-President Dr. Peter Merten on founding a GmbH: “We are pleased to have taken this important step and can now operate at full strength. It was important to us that we... DEB remain clear in the management and design of the event with everyone involved. There are a lot of exciting tasks ahead of us to make the 2027 IIHF World Championships a unique experience with great appeal for our sport.”