Elemer Hirsch

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Elemer Hirsch
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Personal information
Date of birth (1895-05-14)14 May 1895[1]
Place of birth Ceanu Mare, Austria-Hungary[1]
Date of death 17 May 1953(1953-05-17) (aged 58)[1]
Place of death Baia Mare, Romania[2]
Position Defender[2]
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1921–1923 CA Cluj
1924–1926 Universitatea Cluj 26 (2)
International career
1922–1924 Romania 5 (0)
Managerial career
1947–1948 CFR Cluj
1950–1953 Armata Cluj
* Club domestic league appearances and goals

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

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Hirsch was born on 14 May 1895 in Ceanu Mare, Austria-Hungary.[1] He came from a wealthy Jewish family who owned large portions of land in Beclean.[2][6] Hirsch 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][6][7][8] Hirsch also competed in figure skating competitions, managing to win three Romanian national titles in 1924, 1925 and 1927, and become an international figure skating judge.[2][3][5][6] After he retired from playing football, he became a football referee, including officiating in a Romanian top-division Divizia A match.[3][9] 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][10] Hirsch managed to escape from Cluj when the authorities wanted to send him to a Holocaust extermination camp.[2][4][6] After the end of World War II he returned to Cluj and started his coaching career at CFR.[3][6][9] 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][6]

International career

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Hirsch played in the first official match of Romania's national team, under coach Teofil Morariu in the 1922 King Alexander's Cup against Yugoslavia.[2][11][12] He bought Romania's equipment for that match with his own money.[2][6][11] Hirsch was also part of Romania's 1924 Summer Olympics squad.[3][13]

Scores and results table. Romania's goal tally first:[12]
International appearances
App Date Venue Opponent Result Competition
1. 8 June 1922 Belgrade, Yugoslavia File:Flag of Yugoslavia (1918–1943).svg Yugoslavia 2–1 Friendly
2. 3 September 1922 Chernivtsi, Romania File:Flag of Poland.svg Poland 1–1 Friendly
3. 1 July 1923 Cluj, Romania File:Flag of the Czech Republic.svg Czechoslovakia 0–6 Friendly
4. 2 September 1923 Lviv, Poland File:Flag of Poland.svg Poland 1–1 Friendly
5. 20 May 1924 Vienna, Austria File:Flag of Austria.svg Austria 1–4 Friendly
File:Elemér Hirsch skating.JPG
Hirsch ice skating.
File:Dr Elemér Hirsch's certificate of exemption from Jewish law restrictions.JPG
Hirsch's certificate of exemption from Jewish law restrictions.
File:Diploma of Olympic participation of Elemér Hirsch.JPG
Hirsch's Olympics participation diploma.

See also

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References

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  • Elemer Hirsch at RomanianSoccer.ro (in Romanian)
  • Elemer Hirsch at WorldFootball.netLua error in Module:WikidataCheck at line 29: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value).
  • Elemer Hirsch profile at Labtof.ro
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