Gottfried Fuchs
Personal information | |||
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Full name |
Gottfried Erik Fuchs; later Godfrey Fuchs | ||
Date of birth | 3 May 1889 | ||
Place of birth | Karlsruhe, Germany[1] | ||
Date of death | 25 February 1972 | (aged 82)||
Place of death | Westmount, Quebec, Canada[1] | ||
Position(s) | Forward | ||
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
1904–1906 | Düsseldorfer SC 1899 | ||
1906–1914 | Karlsruher FV[1] | ||
1914–1920 | Düsseldorfer SC 1899 | ||
International career | |||
1907–1913 | Germany | 6 | (13) |
*Club domestic league appearances and goals |
Gottfried Erik Fuchs (3 May 1889 – 25 February 1972), also known as Godfrey Fuchs,[2] was a German Olympic footballer. He scored a then-world record 10 goals for the Germany national football team in a 16–0 win against Russia at the 1912 Olympics. He left Germany to escape the Holocaust, as he was Jewish, and ultimately emigrated to Canada.[3]
Biography
A
Fuchs debuted for the Germany national team at the age of 18.[4]
He played for
He was the first German player to score four goals in a single match.[4][2]
He is remembered for scoring a world record 10 goals for
He served in the
In 1928, he and his family moved to Berlin.[10] He was a member of the local tennis club Nikolassee e. V., but it barred him from membership in 1935.[10]
When, years after the Holocaust in 1972, German former player and national team coach Sepp Herberger asked the German Football Association vice president Hermann Neuberger to invite Fuchs as a guest or a guest of honour to an international against Russia on the 60th anniversary of Fuchs' performance for the German team, the DFB Executive Committee declined to do so, writing that it was not willing to invite Fuchs because it would have created an unfortunate precedent (as was pointed out, given that Fuchs was the last remaining former Jewish German international, the DFB's concern about creating a precedent was a difficult one to understand).[9][10]
See also
References
- ^ a b c d e f g h i "Gottfried Fuchs Bio, Stats, and Results". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020.
- ^ a b c d "War, Auschwitz, and the Tragic Tale of Germany's Jewish Soccer Hero". 13 April 2015.
- ^ "Gottfried Fuchs". Olympedia. Retrieved 26 May 2021.
- ^ ISBN 9781442261631– via Google Books.
- ^ ISBN 9780864738004– via Google Books.
- ^ ORT, World. "Music and the Holocaust: Fuchs, Richard". holocaustmusic.ort.org.
- ^ Reyes, Macario (26 June 2008). "V. Olympiad Stockholm 1912 Football Tournament". RSSSF. Retrieved 30 December 2013.
- ISBN 9780857388131– via Google Books.
- ^ a b "Snapshot – Sepp Herberger tries to invite Gottfried Fuchs -". 4 September 2013.
- ^ a b c d "Jüdische Sportstars: Gottfried Fuchs". juedische-sportstars.de.
External links
- Pictures at Karlsruher-fv1891.de (in German)
- Gottfried Fuchs at WorldFootball.net