Hans Menasse

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Hans Menasse (born March 5, 1930 in Vienna ) is a former Austrian football player who was part of the national team and won the championship title with Vienna in 1955 . He is the father of the writers and journalists Robert and Eva Menasse .

Club career

At the age of eight, Menasse came to England in 1938 as part of a British rescue operation for Jewish children on a Kindertransport , where he grew up and played with the children of Luton Town . After the end of the war he returned to Austria and joined Vienna in 1947. He made his debut in the A-League in the 1950/51 season , when he replaced Rudolf Strittich , who had migrated because of his suspension, on the right wing and at the end of the season had scored the third most goals in the club behind Karl Decker and Otto Walzhofer .

In the following years Menasse belonged to the regular formation of the Vienna and was able to reach the mark of 14 league gates twice in a row. He had a big appearance on April 12, 1953 against the eventual champions FK Austria Wien , when he scored four goals in a 5-2 victory in front of 32,000 spectators on the newly opened Hohen Warte, which was sold out . In the 1954/55 season he made a significant contribution to the Döblinger championship title when the tied Wiener Sport-Club could be left behind by the better goal quotient.

In the following years, however, he was rarely used and so he moved to Wiener Austria at the beginning of 1959, for which he played his last games in the top division that season. After that, Menasse was still active in a number of lower-class clubs in the 1960s, including Kremser SC , SC Helfort and Vienna AC .

National team

Menasse made his debut as a right winger in the national team in April 1953 in a 1-1 draw against Hungary in Budapest . In his regular position, however, at that time he had a high-class competitor in Robert Körner and so Menasse was not a member of the Austrian squad at the 1954 World Cup . It was only immediately after this tournament that he made his second and last appearance in a 2-2 win over Yugoslavia .

successes

Awards

literature

  • Alexander Juraske u. a .: Hans Menasse: The Austrian Boy. A life between Vienna, London and Hollywood , Cologne a. a .: Böhlau 2019 ISBN 978-3-205-20782-5 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ City Hall correspondence of February 8, 2019 . Retrieved February 8, 2019.
personal data
SURNAME Menasse, Hans
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH March 5, 1930
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna