Elemer Hirsch
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Personal information | |||
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Date of birth | [1] | 14 May 1895||
Place of birth | Ceanu Mare, Austria-Hungary[1] | ||
Date of death | 17 May 1953[1] | (aged 58)||
Place of death | Baia Mare, Romania[2] | ||
Position(s) | Defender[2] | ||
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
1921–1923 | CA Cluj | ||
1924–1925 | Universitatea Cluj | ||
National team | |||
1922–1924 | Romania | 5 | (0) |
Teams managed | |||
1947–1948 | CFR Cluj | ||
1950–1953 | Armata Cluj | ||
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only |
Elemer Hirsch (14 May 1895 – 17 May 1953) was a Romanian lawyer, figure skater, ice hockey player and a football defender, manager and referee.[2][3][4][5]
Life and career[]
Elemer Hirsch came from a wealthy Jewish family who owned large portions of land in Beclean.[2] He studied law school in Budapest and Vienna, starting to work as a lawyer at age 24.[2] He started playing football at CA Cluj.[3] Several years later he moved to Universitatea Cluj, where he also played ice hockey.[3][5] Hirsch also competed in figure skating competitions, managing to win three Romanian national titles in 1924, 1925 and 1927, also becoming an international figure skating judge.[2][3][5] After he retired from playing football, he became a football referee, including arbitrating in a Romanian top-division Divizia A match.[3][6] In the 1940s following the Second Vienna Award, due to his Jewish origin, the Hungarian authorities prohibited him from working as a lawyer and deprived him of his property which was later nationalized by the Romanian communist regime.[2][4][7] He managed to escape from Cluj when the authorities wanted to send him to a Holocaust extermination camp.[2][4] After the end of World War II he returned to Cluj and started his coaching career at CFR.[3][8] Between 1947 and 1948 he was the federal captain of Romania's national team.[3] In 1950 he became coach at Armata Cluj.[2] In May 1953 after the end of a match in Baia Mare he collapsed on his way to the team bus, the goalkeeper Nicolae Szoboszlay tried to give him first aid but Hirsch died in his arms.[2]
International career[]
Elemer Hirsch played in the first official match of Romania's national team at the 1922 King Alexander's Cup, against Yugoslavia.[2][9][10] Hirsch bought Romania's equipment for that match from his own money.[2][9] He was also part of Romania's 1924 Summer Olympics squad.[3][11]
- Scores and results table. Romania's goal tally first:[10]
International appearances | ||||||
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App | Date | Venue | Opponent | Result | Competition | |
1. | 8 June 1922 | Belgrade, Yugoslavia | ![]() |
2–1 | Friendly | |
2. | 3 September 1922 | Chernivtsi, Romania | ![]() |
1–1 | Friendly | |
3. | 1 July 1923 | Cluj, Romania | ![]() |
0–6 | Friendly | |
4. | 2 September 1923 | Lviv, Poland | ![]() |
1–1 | Friendly | |
5. | 20 May 1924 | Vienna, Austria | ![]() |
1–4 | Friendly |
References[]
- ^ a b c Elemer Hirsch at National-Football-Teams.com
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l "Elemer Hirsch, aristocratul care s-a stins în iarbă" [Elemer Hirsch, the aristocrat who passed away on the grass] (in Romanian). Gsp.ro. 23 March 2009. Retrieved 2 February 2020.
- ^ a b c d e f g h "Dr. Hirsch Elemér labdarúgó és műkorcsolyázó" [Dr. Elemér Hirsch, a footballer and figure skater] (in Hungarian). Szabadsag.ro. 10 June 2008. Retrieved 2 February 2020.
- ^ a b c "Az embertelenség idején másképp is lehetett cselekedni" [In times of inhumanity, things could have been done differently] (in Hungarian). Szabadsag.ro. 11 October 2011. Retrieved 2 February 2020.
- ^ a b c "Istoric patinaj" [History of ice skating] (in Romanian). U-cluj.ro. Retrieved 2 February 2020.
- ^ "Elemer Hirsch referee profile". Labtof. Retrieved 2 February 2020.
- ^ "Se închide Grădina de Vară Boema" [Grădina de Vară Boema is closing] (in Hungarian). Clujulliber.ro. 24 July 2013. Archived from the original on 2 April 2015. Retrieved 2 February 2020.
- ^ "Elemer Hirsch manager profile". Labtof. Retrieved 2 February 2020.
- ^ a b "8 iunie 1922. Primul meci din istoria nationalei de fotbal" [8 June 1922. The first match in the history of the national football team] (in Romanian). A1.ro. 8 June 2012. Retrieved 3 February 2020.
- ^ a b "Elemer Hirsch". European Football. Retrieved 1 February 2020.
- ^ "Elemer Hirsch". Olympedia. Retrieved 21 September 2020.
External links[]
- Elemer Hirsch at RomanianSoccer.ro (in Romanian) and StatisticsFootball.com
- Elemer Hirsch at WorldFootball.net
- 1895 births
- 1953 deaths
- Romanian footballers
- Romania international footballers
- Olympic footballers of Romania
- Footballers at the 1924 Summer Olympics
- Association football defenders
- Liga I players
- FC Universitatea Cluj players
- Romanian football managers
- CFR Cluj managers
- Romanian football referees
- Romanian ice hockey players
- Romanian male single skaters
- Romanian lawyers
- Jewish footballers
- Romanian Jews
- Jewish Romanian sportspeople
- 20th-century lawyers