# Bernhard Attinger

Bernhard Attinger (born 22 July 1953) is a former Swiss curler. He played third position on the Swiss rink that won two European Curling Championships (1976, 1984) and medals at the World Men's Championships in 1979 and 1984 (silver) and 1974 (bronze).
He works as a vice-president of Curling Club Dübendorf and as a vice-president of Dübendorf-based company "Rossweid Immobilien AG".

## Teams

| Season | Skip | Third | Second | Lead | Alternate | Coach | Events |
| 1971–72 | Bernhard Attinger | Peter Attinger Jr. | Mattias Neuenschwander | Jürg Geiler | | | SJCC 1972 |
| 1971–72 | Ernst Bosshard (fourth) | Peter Attinger Sr. (skip) | Bernhard Attinger | Peter Attinger Jr. | | | SMCC 1972 WCC 1972 (5th) |
| 1972–73 | Peter Attinger Jr. | Bernhard Attinger | Mattias Neuenschwander | Jürg Geiler | | | SJCC 1973 |
| 1973–74 | Bernhard Attinger | Kurt Attinger | Ruedi Attinger | Louis Keller | | | SJCC 1974 WJCC 1974 (unofficial) |
| 1973–74 | Peter Attinger Jr. | Bernhard Attinger | Mattias Neuenschwander | Jürg Geiler | | | SMCC 1974 WCC 1974 |
| 1976–77 | Peter Attinger Jr. | Bernhard Attinger | Mattias Neuenschwander | Ruedi Attinger | | | ECC 1976 |
| 1977–78 | Peter Attinger Jr. | Bernhard Attinger | Mattias Neuenschwander | Ruedi Attinger | | | SMCC 1978 |
| 1978–79 | Peter Attinger Jr. | Bernhard Attinger | Mattias Neuenschwander | Ruedi Attinger | | | SMCC 1979 WCC 1979 |
| 1979–80 | Peter Attinger Jr. | Bernhard Attinger | Mattias Neuenschwander | Kurt Attinger | | | SMCC 1980 |
| 1980–81 | Peter Attinger Jr. | Bernhard Attinger | Mattias Neuenschwander | Ruedi Attinger | | | SMCC 1981 |
| 1981–82 | Peter Attinger Jr. | Bernhard Attinger | Ruedi Attinger | Kurt Attinger | | | SMCC 1982 |
| 1982–83 | Peter Attinger Jr. | Bernhard Attinger | Ruedi Attinger | Kurt Attinger | | | SMCC 1983 |
| 1983–84 | Peter Attinger Jr. | Bernhard Attinger | Werner Attinger | Kurt Attinger | | | SMCC 1984 WCC 1984 |
| 1984–85 | Peter Attinger Jr. | Bernhard Attinger | Werner Attinger | Kurt Attinger | | | ECC 1984 |
| 1988–89 | Bernhard Attinger | Werner Attinger | Martin Zürrer | Marcel Senn | | | ECC 1988 SMCC 1989 |
| 1989–90 | Bernhard Attinger | Werner Attinger | Martin Zürrer | Marcel Senn | | | SMCC 1990 |
| 1991–92 | Bernhard Attinger | Peter Attinger Jr. | Werner Attinger | Thomas Grendelmeier | | | SMCC 1992 |
| 2004–05 | Peter Attinger Jr. | Bernhard Attinger | Mattias Neuenschwander | Jürg Geiler | Simon Roth | | WSCC 2005 |
| 2005–06 | Mattias Neuenschwander | Bernhard Attinger | Peter Attinger Jr. | Anton Knobel | | | SSCC 2006 |
| 2005–06 | Peter Attinger Jr. | Mattias Neuenschwander | Bernhard Attinger | Tony Knobel | Fritz Widmer | Fritz Widmer | WSCC 2006 (5th) |
| 2006–07 | Peter Attinger Jr. | Bernhard Attinger | Christian Roth | Anton Knobel | | | SSCC 2007 |
| 2012–13 | Werner Attinger | Peter Attinger Jr. | Ronny Müller | Tony Knobel | Bernhard Attinger | | WSCC 2013 |
| 2017–18 | Bernhard Attinger | Jürg Wagenseil | Werner Büchler | Peter Jauch | | | SSCC 2018 (15th) |

## Private life

Bernhard Attinger grew up in a family of curlers. His father Peter Attinger Sr. is a 1972 Swiss men's champion (he was skip of a team where Bernhard played and won his first national men's gold in 1972). His brothers - Peter Jr., Werner, Ruedi and Kurt - are curlers too, they won Swiss and European championships and Worlds medals when they played in Peter Jr.'s team. His nephew (Peter Jr.'s son) Felix is skip of team, he won Swiss men's silver in 2017 and bronze in 2016; Peter Jr. coached his team. Bernhard's daughter Sandra Ramstein-Attinger is a competitive curler too, she played on three Women's Worlds with teams skipped by Silvana Tirinzoni and Binia Feltscher-Beeli.