Julius Hirsch
Personal information | |||
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Date of birth | 7 April 1892 | ||
Place of birth | Achern, German Empire | ||
Date of death | declared dead 8 May 1945 | (aged 53)||
Place of death | Auschwitz-Birkenau, German-occupied Poland | ||
Position(s) | Left winger | ||
Youth career | |||
1902–1909 | Karlsruher FV | ||
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
1909–1913 | Karlsruher FV | ||
1913–1919 | SpVgg Fürth | 32 | (27[1]) |
1919–1925 | Karlsruher FV | ||
International career | |||
1911–1913 | Germany | 7 | (4) |
*Club domestic league appearances and goals |
Julius Hirsch (7 April 1892 – declared dead 8 May 1945) was a Jewish
Biography
Hirsch was born in
Together with
After joining
Hirsch was the first Jewish player to represent the Germany national football team, which he joined at 18 years of age in 1911.[6][10] He played in a number of matches for Germany, including at the 1912 Olympic Games in Stockholm, Sweden.[10] Hirsch scored four goals for Germany against the Netherlands in 1912, becoming the first German to score four goals in a single match.[6][9]
Hirsch enlisted in and served for four years in the
He returned to KFV after World War I, and retired in 1925.[10] However, he remained with the club as a youth coach.[12]
Death
Reading in a newspaper on 10 April 1933 that all
Hirsch's children Esther and Heinold, deemed second-grade "
Hirsch, now 50 years old, was deported from
Legacy
Since 2005 the
In January 2020, Chelsea FC unveiled a mural by Solomon Souza on an outside wall of the West Stand at Stamford Bridge stadium. The mural is part of Chelsea's 'Say No to Antisemitism' campaign funded by club owner Roman Abramovich. Included on the mural are depictions of footballers Hirsch and Árpád Weisz, who were killed at Auschwitz concentration camp, and Ron Jones, a British prisoner of war known as the 'Goalkeeper of Auschwitz'.[22]
See also
- List of select Jewish football (association; soccer) players
- List of people who disappeared
References
- ^ "Julius Hirsch". Lizenzmannschaft der SPVGG Greuther Fürth. Retrieved 27 July 2023.
- ^ Bell, Jack (20 September 2005). "German Federation Admits to Nazi Past". The New York Times. Retrieved 8 October 2007.
- ISBN 978-0-8135-2820-5.
- ^ "Julius Hirsch". Olympedia. Retrieved 26 May 2021.
- ^ ISBN 9783938485330– via Google Books.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j Kevin E. Simpson (2016). Soccer Under the Swastika; Stories of Survival and Resistance During the Holocaust
- ^ Skrentny, Werner (2012). "Gotti" and "Juller": Gottfried Fuchs/Godfrey E. Fochs and Julius Hirsch; international soccer players, friends and Jews; [special print in occasion of the 2nd Fuchs Family Reunion Canada 2012]. Verlag Die Werkstatt – via Google Books.
- ISBN 9780750958011– via Google Books.
- ^ a b David Bolchover (6 May 2019). "Remembering the cream of Jewish footballing talent killed in the Holocaust". The Guardian.
- ^ a b c d "The War Generation – Julius Hirsch". Inside Futbol. 14 April 2011.
- ^ Nationalspieler und Opfer des Nationalsozialismus (in German) Der Westen, Published: 7 April 2008. Retrieved 13 July 2009
- ^ a b c Deutscher Meister, Nationalspieler, Olympionike Archived 1 July 2012 at the Wayback Machine (in German) DFB website. Retrieved 25 June 2012
- ^ Michael Coren (13 January 2020). "The German soccer hero who escaped the Nazis for Canada". Macleans.
- ^ "German Football Museum". Liga Terezin. 17 October 2015.
- ^ "Jews and Sport Before the Holocaust – A Visual Retrospective: Julius Hirsch". Yad Vashem. Retrieved 2 March 2014.
- ^ "Hirsch, Julius". Jews in Sports. Retrieved 27 March 2009.
- ^ "Olympians Who Were Killed or Missing in Action or Died as a Result of War". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 24 July 2018.
- ISBN 9781317989523.
- ^ Julius Hirsch, national player murdered. Biography of a Jewish Footballer (2012), p.352, publisher Verlag Die Werkstatt (Gottingen), ISBN 978-3-89533.
- ^ Ein Zeichen gegen Diskriminierung Archived 1 July 2012 at the Wayback Machine (in German) DFB website. Retrieved 25 June 2012
- ^ Mendel, Jack (20 March 2020). "Living with the ghost of my grandfather, a German Jewish football icon". Times of Israel.
- ^ "Chelsea unveils mural with Jewish soccer players murdered at Auschwitz". The Jerusalem Post.
External links
- Julius Hirsch at WorldFootball.net
- Pictures at Karlsruher-fv1891.de at the Wayback Machine (archived 11 October 2010) (in German)
- Julius Hirsch at Yad Vashem website