Max Scheuer

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 killed in the Auschwitz concentration camp.

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)

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. "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. 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. 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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