Hugo Buli

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Hugo Buli ( Serbian - Cyrillic Хуго Були ; * 1875 in Belgrade , Kingdom of Serbia ; † October 1941 in Belgrade, Topovske Šupe concentration camp , Kingdom of Yugoslavia ) was a Serbian businessman , football pioneer and driving force in the early years of Belgrade and Serbian football. In 1896, as a student , he brought the first soccer ball with him from the German Empire to what was then the Kingdom of Serbia, where he introduced soccer.

In 1896 he founded the soccer department of the Soko gymnastics club , which is now considered the first soccer section in Southeast Europe , shortly afterwards initiated the first soccer game on Serbian soil and in 1899 was a founding member of the first independent soccer club in Southeast Europe called Prvo Srpsko društvo za igru ​​loptom or Srpsko loptačko društvo , which can be roughly translated as “First Serbian club to play with the ball” or “Serbian ball or football club”.

He was also involved in founding SK Soko in 1903 , the second oldest Serbian football club still in existence today. He acted as a player , coach and functionary and took his first football steps at BFC Germania 1888 , the oldest football club in Germany still in existence today . He is one of the most important football pioneers in the history of Serbian football. Buli was murdered by the Nazis in 1941 during the Holocaust in the Wehrmacht- occupied Belgrade in the Topovske Šupe concentration camp.

Life

Hugo Buli grew up in a Serbian-Jewish family. His parents were Edi or Adi Buli, a wealthy Belgrade bank owner , and Miriam Buli. In 1891 Hugo Buli and Andra Nikolić founded a gymnastics club in Belgrade called Soko ("The Falcon"), which paved the way for the later creation of the first football department of a sports club in the region. In the spring of 1896 he brought the first football from the German Empire to the Serbian capital.

The ball originally came from Berlin , where Buli completed his studies abroad and played for BFC Germania 1888. Most likely he brought the ball with him from the Tempelhof district , where the Berlin club was founded, and learned to play football on the Tempelhofer Feld , which Germania initially used. On May 12, 1896, Buli finally founded the soccer department of the Soko gymnastics club , which is now considered the first soccer section in Southeast Europe.

Seven years later, the SK Soko was to emerge, the second oldest Serbian football club still in existence today, in whose formation Buli also played a role. Thus, the oldest still existing Serbian football club is indirectly connected via Buli to the second oldest still existing club in Germany. The first soccer game on Serbian soil took place on May 19, when Buli, his friends and several members of the Soko soccer department demonstrated the new sport to the citizens in the Kalemegdan park near the Nebojša fortification tower.

Through further efforts by Buli and Nikolić, who had already risen to the position of foreign minister , as well as some other members of the Soko gymnastics club , all of them young lawyers , civil servants and business people , the founding meeting of the first independent football club in Southeastern Europe, called Prvo Srpsko društvo za igru , took place on May 1, 1899 loptom or Srpsko loptačko društvo instead, which can be translated roughly as “First Serbian club to play with the ball” or “Serbian ball or football club”, which was held in a Belgrade restaurant called Trgovačka kafana .

Two years later, SK Soko was founded in Belgrade, the establishment of which was initiated by Stevan Stefanović, the son of a wealthy canning factory owner , with the support of Buli and Nikolić, and thus practically became the successor to the football division of the Soko gymnastics company founded in 1896 . Buli became a successful merchant over the years, married a woman named Nora, and continued to be involved in Serbian football. During the Second World War , however, Serbia, which had belonged to the Kingdom of Yugoslavia since the end of the First World War , was smashed and occupied by the Axis powers . Belgrade was under German military occupation by the Wehrmacht. From September 1941 onwards this led to mass murders of Jews, to which Buli also fell victim. In the midst of the Holocaust, he was abducted by the Nazis in October and shot in the Topovske Šupe concentration camp.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Yad Vashem The Holocaust Martyrs' and Heroes' Remembrance Authority: The Central Database of Shoah Victims' Names
  2. ↑ a b c d Dejan Zec: The Origin of Soccer in Serbia - Introduction. Institute for Recent History of Serbia, Academia.edu, p. 138.
  3. ↑ a b c tempelhoferfeld.info: Foundation of the oldest still existing German football club
  4. ↑ Dr. Thomas Schneider: The history of the BFC Germania 1888. The timeline - 1888. (No longer available online.) Ballpassagen.de, archived from the original on January 6, 2012 ; Retrieved August 27, 2013 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.bfcgermania88.de
  5. ↑ Friedhard Teuffel: The oldest association - a small association . In: Wolfgang Niersbach, Rudi Michel (Hrsg.): 100 Years of the DFB - The History of the German Football Association . Sportverlag, Berlin 1999, ISBN 3-328-00850-0 , p. 483 .
  6. ↑ Srbislav Todorović: Fudbal u Srbiji 1896.-1918th Ed .: SOFK Zvezdara. Belgrade 1996, p. 8 .
personal data
SURNAME Buli, Hugo
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Були, Хуго (SrS)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Serbian businessman and football pioneer
DATE OF BIRTH 1875
PLACE OF BIRTH Belgrade , Kingdom of Serbia
DATE OF DEATH October 1941
Place of death Belgrade , Topovske Šupe concentration camp , Kingdom of Yugoslavia