Elemer Hirsch

Elemer Hirsch
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(s) 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

Elemer Hirsch came from a wealthy Jewish family who owned large portions of land in Beclean.[2][6] He 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][9][10] Hirsch also competed in figure skating competitions, managing to win three Romanian national titles in 1924, 1925 and 1927, also becoming an international figure skating judge.[2][3][5][6] After he retired from playing football, he became a football referee, including arbitrating in a Romanian top-division Divizia A match.[3][11] 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][12] He 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][13] 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

Elemer Hirsch played in the first official match of Romania's national team at the 1922 King Alexander's Cup, against Yugoslavia.[2][14][15] Hirsch Romania's equipment for that match from his own money.[2][6][14] He was also part of Romania's 1924 Summer Olympics squad.[3][16]

Scores and results table. Romania's goal tally first:[15]
International appearances
App Date Venue Opponent Result Competition
1. 8 June 1922 Belgrade, Yugoslavia  Yugoslavia 2–1 Friendly
2. 3 September 1922 Chernivtsi, Romania  Poland 1–1 Friendly
3. 1 July 1923 Cluj, Romania  Czechoslovakia 0–6 Friendly
4. 2 September 1923 Lviv, Poland  Poland 1–1 Friendly
5. 20 May 1924 Vienna, Austria  Austria 1–4 Friendly

See also

References

  1. ^ a b c Elemer Hirsch at National-Football-Teams.com
  2. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l "Elemer Hirsch, aristocratul care s-a stins în iarbă" [Elemer Hirsch, the aristocrat who passed away on the grass] (in Romanian). Gsp.ro. 23 March 2009. Retrieved 2 February 2020.
  3. ^ a b c d e f g h "Dr. Hirsch Elemér labdarúgó és műkorcsolyázó" [Dr. Elemér Hirsch, a footballer and figure skater] (in Hungarian). Szabadsag.ro. 10 June 2008. Retrieved 2 February 2020.
  4. ^ a b c "Az embertelenség idején másképp is lehetett cselekedni" [In times of inhumanity, things could have been done differently] (in Hungarian). Szabadsag.ro. 11 October 2011. Retrieved 2 February 2020.
  5. ^ a b c "Istoric patinaj" [History of ice skating] (in Romanian). U-cluj.ro. Retrieved 2 February 2020.
  6. ^ a b c d e f g "Alfred Eisenbeisser to Bondoc Ionescu-Crum: Romanian legends who excelled in multiple sports". Fifa.com. 15 May 2023. Retrieved 1 July 2023.
  7. ^ "Universitatea Cluj 1923–24 season" (in Romanian). 4everucluj.ro.
  8. ^ "Universitatea Cluj 1924–25 season" (in Romanian). 4everucluj.ro.
  9. ^ "Universitatea Cluj 1925–26 season" (in Romanian). 4everucluj.ro.
  10. ^ "Universitatea Cluj 1926–27 season" (in Romanian). 4everucluj.ro.
  11. ^ "Elemer Hirsch referee profile". Labtof. Retrieved 2 February 2020.
  12. ^ "Se închide Grădina de Vară Boema" [Grădina de Vară Boema is closing] (in Hungarian). Clujulliber.ro. 24 July 2013. Archived from the original on 2 April 2015. Retrieved 2 February 2020.
  13. ^ "Elemer Hirsch manager profile". Labtof. Retrieved 2 February 2020.
  14. ^ a b "8 iunie 1922. Primul meci din istoria nationalei de fotbal" [8 June 1922. The first match in the history of the national football team] (in Romanian). A1.ro. 8 June 2012. Retrieved 3 February 2020.
  15. ^ a b "Elemer Hirsch". European Football. Retrieved 1 February 2020.
  16. ^ "Elemer Hirsch". Olympedia. Retrieved 21 September 2020.
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