Alexander Thury
Alexander Thury (* 1895 in Budapest , † 1964 in Kaiserslautern ) was a German-Hungarian football player and coach .
Life
Private life
Alexander Thury was born in Budapest in 1895 as the son of an Evangelical Reformed family. The trained machine fitter and later master precision mechanic married the Jewish woman Katharina Szinai in 1919 and accepted the Jewish faith. In 1920 the only child Eugen Thury was born. In 1921 the von Kispest family moved to Germany. There the family settled first in Kaiserslautern , then in Stuttgart . Thury then worked in a cash box factory in Sulzbach (Saar) , while his wife ran a sporting goods store there. In 1925 the couple returned to Kaiserslautern, where Thury worked for the Pfaff company. At the beginning of the 1930s he helped to build up the special machine department. After the seizure of power , the family converted to the Reformed faith and thus escaped persecution by the National Socialists. In 1939 the family moved to Munich , where Alexander Thury started his own sewing machine repair shop. In 1952 he returned to Kaiserslautern and worked for Pfaff again until his retirement in 1960. He died in 1964 after suffering from cancer.
Athletic career
Alexander Thury already played football in his youth. The defender initially played for the Kispest Athletic Club (KAC), which later became the Honved Budapest military football club . From there he advanced to the Hungarian national team, where he was used several times as a defender.
Franz Konya , the first professional trainer at FV Kaiserslautern (FVK), which later became 1. FC Kaiserslautern , brought him to the FVK. After Thury's move to Stuttgart, he played for a short time with the Sportfreunde in 1874 . He also played football during his short stopover in Sulzbach, there with his former compatriots Eugen Mayer and Josef Mihalek. His club, the SV 05 Rot-Weiß Sulzbach, won the Blies-Palatinate district championship in 1925, not least because of the trio that performed together.
In 1925 he returned to FRP. He was not only active as a player, he also acted as a player-coach from 1925 to 1929. He also coached the general sports club in 1910 Winnweiler and SC Kaiserslautern. He ended his active sports career in 1929 after a torn shin . He returned as a coach in the 1936/1937 season. Later he remained connected to 1. FC Kaiserslautern.
literature
- Markwart Herzog: 4. Jewish biographies and fates: Alexander Thury: the first “international” in 1. FCK . In: The "Betze" under the swastika. 1. FC Kaiserslautern in the time of National Socialism . Verlag die Werkstatt, Göttingen 2006, ISBN 978-3-89533-541-9 , p. 37-40 .
Web links
- Alexander Thury in the database of weltfussball.de
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Thury, Alexander |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German-Hungarian football player and coach |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1895 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Budapest |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1964 |
| Place of death | Kaiserslautern |