Maximilian Gold

This article is about the soccer player Maximilian Gold. For other people, see Max Gold .

Maximilian "Max" Gold (born November 22, 1900 in Vienna , † November 27, 1961 in Tehran ) was an Austrian national soccer player .

Career

The defender began his career at Wiener AF , for whom he played championship games for the first time after the end of the First World War and established himself as a regular player and important support in the wine-red team early in 1919/20 . In the championship only in the midfield, he was able to win the Austrian Cup 1922 with a 2-1 against the amateurs with the Hütteldorfer . In the same year Maximilian Gold also made two appearances in defense in the Austrian national team  - in a 1-1 draw against Hungary and a 7-1 win over Switzerland .

After this successful season Maximilian Gold was poached by the vice-champion SC Hakoah Vienna . After he left the club briefly in the summer of 1924 to play at Makkabi Tallinn in Estonia, he returned to Hakoah in time for the start of the championship. With the blue and white he finally achieved his greatest success, because in 1924/25 he became Austrian champions with the team . After another summer trip to the Baltic States, this time as the trainer of Makkabi Kaunas , he returned to Hakoah in autumn 1925. When several players left the club after the first American tour, the defender stayed with the club, but after the second American tour in 1927 accepted an offer from the New York Giants . A year in the ASL, he returned to Austria, where he played for the Vienna AC in 1928/29 and made a few games for the Hakoah in autumn 1929, but then went back to New York to the Hakoah All-Stars .

Maximilian Gold's active career ended with an ankle injury . In the early 1930s he was the owner and manager of the Maccabi Chicago soccer team , which also included some former Hakoah players. He later worked as a coach in the Baltic States for the Lithuanian national team and Bar Kochba Kaunas .

Emigration and flight

After Austria was annexed to the German Reich, he emigrated to Luxembourg with his wife in 1938 and trained for the Jeunesse Esch club from September that year . After the occupation of Luxembourg by the Wehrmacht , he was used for forced labor in the RAB Greimerath camp from September 4 to October 11, 1941 . After his return to Luxembourg, on November 17, 1941, he received an order from the Gestapo “to concentrate all Jews”, according to which he and his family were to be interned in Cinqfontaines . With the help of Luxembourg resistance members, however, they managed to escape.

After the war he worked as a sports manager in Vienna. He died in 1961 in Tehran, where he was on tour with the Swedish team Malmö FF , when he fell into an elevator shaft.

successes

• 1 × Austrian champion : 1925
• 1 × Austrian Cup winner : 1922

• 2 international matches for the Austrian national soccer team in 1922

Individual evidence

1. ↑ hagalil.com: "75 years ago Jewish forced laborers were deported from Luxembourg" from July 21, 2016