Max Scheuer

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Max Scheuer
Personal information
Place of birth Austria
Place of death Auschwitz, Poland
Position(s) Defender
National team
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1923 Austria 1 (0)

Max Scheuer was an Austrian international footballer who played the defender position.[1][2] He played for the Austrian national football team in the 1923 season. In the 1920s he played for and captained Hakoah Vienna. He was murdered in the Auschwitz concentration camp.

Biography[]

Scheuer was born in Austria, and was Jewish.[2][3]

Scheuer was in the starting lineup and played as a defender for the Austrian national football team against the Hungarian national football team in a FIFA match in the 1923 season.[4][5][2]

In the 1920s Scheuer played for and captained Hakoah Vienna, an all-Jewish club.[6][7][8] With the team he won the Austrian championship in the 1924–25 Austrian First League season, the first professional Austrian football title.[9] In 1927 he and the team came to the United States to play the Bethlehem Steel Football Club, defending U.S. champion and 1926-27 champion of the American Soccer League.[10] He fled Austria to France, and played briefly for Olympique Marseille.[11][12]

He was captured by the Nazis while he was in France, on his way to neutral Switzerland.[7][11] Scheuer was sent to Drancy internment camp in France, and then to Auschwitz concentration camp in Poland, where he was killed in the early 1940s.[7][13]

Scheuer was one of at least seven Hakoah footballers killed in the Holocaust.[7][14][11] Others were Josef Kolisch, Ali Schönfeld, Oskar Grasgrün, Ernst Horowitz, and the brothers Erwin Pollak and Oskar Pollak.[15]

References[]

  1. ^ "Hakoah Wien - Players from A-Z". worldfootball.net.
  2. ^ a b c "Max Scheuer » Record by opponent". worldfootball.net.
  3. ^ Bernard Postal, Jesse Silver, Roy Silver (1965). Encyclopedia of Jews in Sports
  4. ^ Strack-Zimmermann, Benjamin. "Max Scheuer". national-football-teams.com.
  5. ^ "Max Scheuer » Internationals". worldfootball.net.
  6. ^ David Bolchover (May 6, 2019). "Remembering the cream of Jewish footballing talent killed in the Holocaust". The Guardian.
  7. ^ a b c d David Bolchover (2017). The Greatest Comeback: From Genocide To Football Glory; The Story of Béla Guttman
  8. ^ Alan McDougall (2020). Contested Fields; A Global History of Modern Football
  9. ^ Susanne Wurm (March 9, 2018). ""DANUBE FOOTBALL" – VIENNA'S IDENTIFICATION WITH FOOTBALL – AND THE "DANUBE MAIDENS" – VIENNA'S FEMALE SWIMMING CHAMPIONS (until 1938)". Central European Economic and Social History.
  10. ^ "HAKOAH SOCCER TEAM HERE FOR BIG CLASH; Vienna Stars Quartered at Hotel Bethlehem -- Game at Lehigh Tomorrow; STEEL TEAM IN TOP FORM," The Globe-Times -- Bethlehem, April 19, 1927.
  11. ^ a b c Kevin E. Simpson (2016). Soccer Under the Swastika; Stories of Survival and Resistance During the Holocaust
  12. ^ William Bowman (2011). "Hakoah Vienna and the International Nature of Interwar Austrian Sports," Central European History 44, 642–68.
  13. ^ Heffernan, Conor (November 20, 2014). "Hakoah Wien and Muscular Judaism". Physical Culture Study.
  14. ^ Anthony Clavane (2012). Does Your Rabbi Know You're Here?; The Story of English Football's Forgotten Tribe
  15. ^ Vuillemot, Pierre (November 8, 2015). "Hakoah Vienne, l'histoire d'un monument juif". Footballski.
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