Michl Schwarz

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Emanuel Michael Schwarz (called Michl , born October 8, 1878 in Vienna , Austria-Hungary ; died June 8, 1968 in Vienna) was an Austrian doctor and football official.

Life

Emanuel Schwarz studied medicine and received his doctorate . He became a spa doctor and then a general practitioner with an apartment at Wollzeile 36 in the 1st district (the Simpl cabaret was in the same building , and the cabaret artist Fritz Grünbaum also lived here ). Schwarz's clientele was the upper bourgeoisie of Vienna. During the First World War he volunteered as a military doctor .

Schwarz was a member of the soccer club FK Austria Wien and a sports doctor for soccer players. In 1925 he convinced the striker Matthias Sindelar of the need for meniscus surgery, which enabled him to continue his career. For "his players" he played the patriarch, for example for the wonderful team player and Austria captain Walter Nausch . During the Great Depression , Schwarz was elected to the top of the club's management in 1931 and president in 1932. During his presidency, the club won the Mitropacup twice , in 1933 and 1936.

After Austria's "annexation" to the National Socialist German Reich in March 1938, the board of the association was dismissed by the Austrian National Socialists and the management of the association was taken over by followers. Schwarz, who was of Jewish origin, stayed in Vienna after the Reichspogromnacht in November 1938 and trusted his international contacts.

In order to protect his wife and his son Franz, who was also persecuted as a so - called half - Jew , the couple divorced pro forma in August 1940, whereby Schwarz assumed sole responsibility and thus secured the apartment for his "Aryan" wife. (It was not until 1951 that the couple was able to renew the marriage.)

When Schwarz fled to Bologna in May 1939 with the support of the Italian football functionary Giovanni Mauro , he could not stay long in Italy because of the increasing state-mandated anti-Semitism . FIFA President Jules Rimet issued him an affidavit and Henri Delaunay helped him get a visa for France, where he made his way as a sports masseur in Grenoble and witnessed the German conquest in 1940 .

In 1944 he was picked up in Angoulême and sent to an internment camp. For reasons inexplicable to him, the camp manager from Austria, who loudly verbally abused him, helped him to escape at night by leaving a camp gate unlocked. Black was able to hide in Paris with the support of the footballer and Resistance fighter Friedrich Donnenfeld . After 1945, Schwarz could not find out the name of the helpful camp manager.

With the flight of the French national soccer team , Schwarz came back to Vienna on December 6, 1945 and was able to resume his presidency at Austria Wien in 1946, which he held until August 1955. In 1947 he was able to recruit the player Ernst Ocffekt for the club, which was active there until 1956. Schwarz was awarded the title of Senior Medical Councilor and, in 1964, the Gold Medal for Services to the Republic of Austria .

Emanuel Schwarz received an honorary grave in the Hietzingen cemetery .

literature

  • Wolfgang Maderthaner : The long journey of the football doctor Emanuel "Michl" Schwarz , in: Diethelm Blecking , Lorenz Peiffer (ed.) Athletes in the "Century of the Camps". Profiteers, resistors and victims. Die Werkstatt, Göttingen 2012, pp. 124–130.
  • Wolfgang Maderthaner: The President's Long Journey , in: weekly newspaper Die Zeit , Hamburg, Austria edition, February 7, 2019, No. 7/2019, p. 9, with a photo: Schwarz with Mayor Theodor Körner in the stadium shortly after the end of the war (in the caption of the photo, Körner was confused with Karl Seitz , who was mayor of Vienna from 1923 to 1934)

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Wollzeile 36, see pictures under c: Category: Wollzeile 36-38
  2. ↑ Emanuel Schwarz , Hietzinger Friedhof, List of Honorary Graves, Gr. 35, No. 8 D, at Friedhof Wien (PDF)
personal data
SURNAME Schwarz, Michl
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schwarz, Emanuel Michael
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian doctor and football official
DATE OF BIRTH October 8, 1878
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH June 8, 1968
Place of death Vienna