Max Scheuer (9 September 1895 – post August 1941) was an

Austria Austria, , bar, Östareich officially the Republic of Austria, is a country in the southern part of Central Europe, lying in the Eastern Alps. It is a federation of nine states, one of which is the capital, Vienna, the most populous ...

n international footballer who played the defender position. He played for the

Austria national football team The Austria national football team (german: Österreichische Fußballnationalmannschaft) represents Austria in men's international football competition and it is controlled by the Austrian Football Association (German: Österreichischer Fußba ...

in the 1923 season. In the 1920s he played for and captained Hakoah Vienna. He was murdered in the Auschwitz concentration camp.

Biography

Scheuer was born in

, and was Jewish. Scheuer was in the starting lineup and played as a defender for the

against the Hungarian national football team in a FIFA match in the 1923 season. In the 1920s Scheuer played for and captained Hakoah Vienna, an all-Jewish club. David Bolchover (2017)
''The Greatest Comeback: From Genocide To Football Glory; The Story of Béla Guttman''
/ref> With the team he won the Austrian championship in the 1924–25 Austrian First League season, the first professional Austrian football title. 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. He fled Austria to France, and played briefly for

Olympique Marseille Olympique de Marseille (, ; oc, Olimpic de Marselha, ), also known simply as Marseille or by the abbreviation OM (, ), is a French professional men's football club based in Marseille, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur. Founded in 1899, the club p ...

.Kevin E. Simpson (2016)
''Soccer Under the Swastika; Stories of Survival and Resistance During the Holocaust''
/ref> He was captured by the

Nazi Nazism ( ; german: Nazismus), the common name in English for National Socialism (german: Nationalsozialismus, ), is the far-right politics, far-right Totalitarianism, totalitarian political ideology and practices associated with Adolf Hit ...

s while he was in

France France (), officially the French Republic ( ), is a country primarily located in Western Europe. It also comprises of overseas regions and territories in the Americas and the Atlantic, Pacific and Indian Oceans. Its metropolitan ar ...

, on his way to neutral Switzerland. Aged 45, Scheuer was sent to

Drancy internment camp Drancy internment camp was an assembly and detention camp for confining Jews who were later deported to the extermination camps during the German occupation of France during World War II. Originally conceived and built as a modernist urban comm ...

in France, and then to Auschwitz concentration camp, where he was killed in the early 1940s. Scheuer was one of at least seven Hakoah footballers killed in

the Holocaust The Holocaust, also known as the Shoah, was the genocide of European Jews during World War II. Between 1941 and 1945, Nazi Germany and its collaborators systematically murdered some six million Jews across German-occupied Europe; ...

. Others were Josef Kolisch, Ali Schönfeld, Oskar Grasgrün, Ernst Horowitz, and the brothers Erwin Pollak and Oskar Pollak.

References

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