Ernst Melchior

Ernst Melchior
Personnel
birthday	June 26, 1920
place of birth	Villach ,  Austria
date of death	5th August 1978
Place of death	Rouen ,  France
position	striker
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
1940-1946	Villacher SV
1946-1954	FK Austria Vienna	158 (122)
1954-1958	FC Rouen	158 0(70)
1958-1959	FC Nantes	35 0(16)
National team
Years	selection	Games (goals)
1946-1953	Austria	36 (16)
Stations as a trainer
Years	station
1963-1964	Beşiktaş Istanbul
1967	Fortuna Dusseldorf
1968-1969	Club Africain Tunis
1969-1972	Jeunesse Esch
1969-1972	Luxembourg
1972-1975	FC Rouen
1 Only league games are given.

Ernst Melchior (born June 26, 1920 in Villach , Carinthia , † August 5, 1978 in Rouen , France ) was an Austrian football player . The right winger was considered one of the most successful and popular players of the early Austrian post-war period. He was particularly known for his speed and straightforwardness as a striker.

The intrusion into an apartment in the course of the November 1938 pogrom against Jews (as an 18-year-old) confessed to Melchior in the course of legal proceedings.

Career

In Austria

Ernst Melchior began his football career with his hometown club Villacher SV . - For the first time he was given more attention when he scored all of the hosts' goals in a comparative match between the association selections of Carinthia and Vienna on July 9, 1940 in Klagenfurt , which ended 3: 3. Below was a "goal of the century", which he scored 5 seconds after kick-off for the first half, which all the newspapers reported. Even back then he was dubbed the “Gscherte” in Viennese jargon (as the “Provincial” were and still are from their point of view), and the Viennese International Willi Schmaus commented: “As soon as the Gscherte breaks, he shoots a goal «, Translated:» As soon as the Gscherte comes forward, he already scores a goal «(Source: Brochure" Nach_Spielzeit ", published by employees of the Carinthian State Archives). In 1946 the striker was surprisingly set up by Eduard Bauer for the international match on April 14 against "arch rivals" Hungary . For the first time since Franz Fuchsberger , who was called up by SV Urfahr in 1936 , an amateur from the national leagues played in the Austrian national football team . Ernst Melchior scored the 2-2 goal on his debut on the occasion of the 3-2 win over the Magyars and thus aroused the interest of numerous Viennese professional clubs. This developed into a duel between Rapid and Austria , both of whom tried to win Ernst Melchior for themselves.

In August 1946 he finally came to the Veilchen, together with his lesser-known younger brother Otto (born 1922), where he soon had a fixed body. These transfers represent in fact the first known transfers from the state of Carinthia to a club in the top Austrian division. In a total of 158 championship games, Ernst Melchior scored 122 goals for the Violets and was Austrian champion three times. The unimaginative nickname " G'scherter ", which was first assigned to him in 1940, experienced his "rebirth". He stayed with him for the rest of his life, but maybe, despite the negative background, this expression could be seen as positive for him again. In the national team, the Villacher scored some important goals for the team, his best known in the 26th minute of the 1-0 victory in Glasgow over Scotland , when he - in cooperation with Theodor Wagner (known as "Turl Wagner") - with a sharp Shot hit the left corner. That Wednesday, December 13, 1950, it was the first victory of a continental European team over the Scots in their country; Goalkeeper Walter Zeman played a major role in the success . He also met, u. between November 28, 1951, for 0: 1 after 50 seconds in the second half of the game after a pass by Ernst Ocffekt , at 2: 2 at Wembley against England next to his club colleague Ernst Stojaspal , who with a hand penalty in the 79th minute of the game Compensation fixed (sources: "Arbeiterzeitung Wien" of December 14, 1950 and November 29, 1951, page 8 each). He played his last international match on November 29, 1953 in Lisbon in a 0-0 draw against Portugal .

In France

During the 1953/54 season he went to France, where he worked as a player and coach, and thus missed participation in the 1954 World Cup. He played there for FC Rouen , which between 1953 and 1958 but always only a midfield place in the Division 2 (second division) occupied. This did not change in the 1958/59 season, when Ernst Melchior moved from Normandy to FC Nantes in Brittany . After all, he has made 193 league appearances in his six years in France (158 for Rouen, 35 for Nantes), and without his numerous goals his clubs would certainly have been in greater trouble: he scored 70 times in the league for FC Rouen and 16 times for FC Nantes. In the French Cup he was in the quarter-finals with Rouen in March 1954, but had to bow to the first division club Olympique Marseille 2: 3.

Trainer

After the end of his active career, Melchior began his coaching career and looked after Beşiktaş Istanbul (1963/64), Fortuna Düsseldorf (July to December 1967), the Tunisian team Club Africain (7/1968 - 6/1969), and Jeunesse Esch ( 11/1969 - 6/1972) and practically at the same time the Luxembourg national team from October 12, 1969 to April 26, 1972. He then worked for FC Rouen until June 1975 . In the meantime, in the mid-1960s, he also worked in his Carinthian homeland or in the neighboring East Tyrol , which also falls under the agendas of the Carinthian Football Association : For the time being, from August 5, 1964, for the WSG Radenthein , which is in the second highest division, the Regionalliga Mitte played. At the age of 44, he was still in action as a player (at least in build-up matches), but in the regional league championship he only worked as a coach. The relationship in Radenthein didn't quite fit (expectations were not met despite prominent transfers), so that after a year they split up. He was then - one step lower in the Carinthian regional league - committed as a coach from SV Rapid Lienz from summer 1966 .

In 1978 he died at the age of 58 after a long, serious illness in his adopted French home. In 2001, Ernst-Melchior-Gasse in Vienna's Leopoldstadt (2nd district) was named after him.

Sources: Internet pages "weltfußball", "Austria Wien Archiv" and a list of Luxembourg coaches on "Équipe du Luxembourg de football - Wikipedia" as well as "WSG Radenthein Homepage" (older version, no longer available) and "Rapid Lienz Archiv" resp. "Osttiroler Bote, Lienz".

successes

• 3 × Austrian champion : 1949, 1950, 1953
• 2 × Austrian runner-up: 1952, 1954
• 2 × Austrian Cup winners : 1948, 1949
• 1 × Austrian Cup finalist: 1947

See also

• Austria's soccer team at the 1948 Olympic Games

Individual evidence

1. ^ The Pogrom Night of Devastation 1938 - Well-known footballer among the perpetrators orf.at, November 9, 2016, accessed November 10, 2016
2. ↑ "Melchior near Radenthein"; POS. Column 5, third heading . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna July 7, 1964, p. 12 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
3. ^ "Ernst Melchior left - Adi Dorfer came" in "Neue Zeit Klagenfurt", No. 172 of July 30, 1965, page 7