Wasservogel was born 20 February 1919 in Austria, and won four national championships playing ice hockey there.

[1] In 1977, he undermined the International Olympic Committee's rules for amateur only players at World Ice Hockey Championships, and said that the participating players were really professionals instead of amateurs, and that ice hockey at the Winter Olympic Games would be finished within eight years unless professionals were accepted.

[2][3] He was succeeded as president of the Austrian Ice Hockey Association by Hans Dobida in 1977.

[1] When three players of the Poland men's national ice hockey team sought political asylum in Austria in 1982, he stated that the players would have to wait 18 months before playing in another country, unless the Polish Ice Hockey Federation released them.

[5] Wasservogel was named an honorary president of the Austrian Ice Hockey Association in 1977, and received the Olympic Order in 1986.