Károly Dietz

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Károly Dietz (born July 21, 1885 in Sopron , Austria-Hungary ; died July 9, 1969 in Budapest ) was a Hungarian police officer, lawyer and soccer coach .

Life

Károly Dietz was active as a footballer at Magyar AC Budapest and Műegyetemi AFC . He studied law at the University of Budapest and in 1909 entered the police service of the Hungarian State Police in Budapest. After the democratic revolution in 1918 he became police chief of Budapest. In the Hungarian Soviet Republic he was imprisoned by the revolutionaries from March 21 to May 16, 1919. After the fall of Béla Kun , he was again briefly police chief in Budapest at the end of 1919, but left the civil service after the failure of the István Friedrich government.

From then on, Dietz worked as an accountant in the private sector. In 1930 he received his doctorate in law from the University of Szeged and he opened a law firm in Budapest in 1931.

Dietz was appointed coach of the Hungarian national football team in 1934 . At the soccer World Cup in 1938 , he formed a coaching team with club coach Alfréd Schaffer . The team reached the final, which Italy won. Dietz left in 1939 from the service of the football association Magyar Labdarúgó Szövetség .

After the putsch of the Arrow Crossers launched by the German Reich in October 1944, Dietz was imprisoned by them in the prison for political prisoners in Sopronkőhida and then transferred to the Germans, who deported him to the Mauthausen concentration camp .

After the end of the war, Dietz worked as a lawyer. In 1951 he moved to Bodrogkeresztúr , from 1953 he lived again in Budapest.

Fonts

  • Az árdrágitó visszaélések. Légrády testvérek, Budapest 1916
  • with László Sándor: A nyomozás alapelvei. Pátria, Budapest 1918
  • Októbertől - augustusy Emlékirataim. Rácz, Budapest 1920

literature

  • Dietz, Károly. In: Tom Dunmore, Andrew Donaldson: Encyclopedia of the FIFA World Cup. Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham 2015, p. 199 ( digitized version ) - only covers the period from 1934 to 1939.
  • Dietz, Károly. In: László Markó (ed.): Új magyar életrajzi lexikon II. (D – Gy). Magyar Könyvklub, Budapest 2001, ISBN 963-547-414-8 , p. 166.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Péter Szegedi: Párhuzamos életrajzok - Ezüstkapitányok - Dr. Dietz Károly és Sebes Gusztáv. 2010.
  2. ↑ Biographical information follows the personal articles in the Magyar életrajzi lexikon and Új magyar életrajzi lexikon .
  3. ^ Dietz, Károly. In: Tom Dunmore, Andrew Donaldson: Encyclopedia of the FIFA World Cup. Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham 2015, p. 199.
  4. ↑ Final Italy - Hungary , at FIFA (en)
personal data
SURNAME Dietz, Károly
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Hungarian policeman, lawyer and football coach
DATE OF BIRTH July 21, 1885
PLACE OF BIRTH Sopron , Austria-Hungary
DATE OF DEATH July 9, 1969
Place of death Budapest