Hirsch and Fuchs

Julius Hirsch and Gottfried Fuchs, the 2 Jewish footballers who represented Germany. During the Third Reich era Fuchs went into exile and Hirsch was murdered at Auschwitz.
The memory of these 2 remarkable men has been kept alive by historian Werner Skrentny, and the city of Karlsruhe has a Gottfried-Fuchs-Platz and a Julius-Hirsch-Straße.  The DFB's Julius Hirsch Prize honours those who promote freedom , tolerance and humanity.

Their finest hour for Karlsruher FV came in 1910- winning the German National Championship.
The Karlsruher FV team who beat Holsten Kiel on 15.05.10 was:
Adolf Dell – Carl Hübner, Ernst Hollstein – Hans Ruzek, Max Breunig, Max Schwarze – Fritz Tscherter, Fritz Förderer, Gottfried Fuchs, Julius Hirsch, Hermann Bosch
Trainer: William Townley

Max Bruenig scored the winner from the penalty spot in the 114th minute at Köln.

It was in 1912 that Hirsch and Fuchs first played together for the German national team.  On 04.03.12 
at Zwolle Netherlands and Germany played a 5-5 draw. Fuchs scored Germany's first goal in the 13th minute, but Juller was the star of the show, scoring 4 goals. 


26.05.12- in a repeat of the 1910 final Holstein Kiel beat Karlsruher FV 1-0 (a penalty) at Hamburg. 

They next featured together in the consolation round of Olympic tournament on 03.07.12, 2 days after Fuchs scored 10 goals in a 16-0 demolition of Russia , Hirsch returned to the side for the match with Hungary. Hungary won 3-1 (an Imre Sclosser hat trick).

Hirsch and Fuchs final appearance together for Germany came  on 23.11.13. at Antwerp. Belgium thrashed Germany 6-2. Fuchs got Germany's second, but Belgium had already scored 5 by then. 

In all Julius Hirsch played 7 internationals, scoring 4 goals.
Gottfried Fuchs played 6 matches for the national team, scoring 14 goals.

                                              Fuchs seated far left, Hirsch far right. 

Fuchs 4th from left Hirsch far right. 

Netherlands Coaches

From their first International outing in 1905 until the outbreak of the war in 1939 Netherlands employed 11 coaches.

1. Cees van Hasselt (Netherlands:1905-08)
Netherland's first coach was a player/ trainer. A tailor who played for Sparta Rotterdam he led Netherlands in 11 internationals (won 6 , lost 5- 54.54%). Remarkably he was the last Dutchman to hold the post of National coach until 1946.

2. Edgar Chadwick (England:1908-13) 
Blackburn born Chadwick had a 22 year top level career as a player. He played 270 League matches for Everton and represented England 7 times. Chadwick was Netherlands' manager during the 1908 and 1912 Olympics and oversaw the famous  2–1 victory over England Amatuers in 1913.

P	W	D	L	%
24	14	2	8	58.33

3. Jimmy Hogan (England:1910)
The legendary Jimmy Hogan, one of the most influential figures in the development of continental football, took charge of Netherlands for one match , a 2-1 win over Germany on 16.10.10.


4. Tom Bradshaw (England:1913)
Bradshaw was a Lancastrian who played for a dozen League clubs. He took charge of the Netherlands for their 4-2 defeat at the hands of Belgium on 20.04.13.

5. Billy Hunter (Scotland:1914)

P	W	D	L	%
4	2	1	1	50

6.Jack Reynolds  (England: 1919)
The Ajax manager was in charge for the  3-1 win over Sweden on 09.06.19.

7. Fred Warburton (England:17.11.1912  & 1919-23)
The former Bury, Swindon Town and Plymouth Argyle inside forward moved to the Netherlands in 1910 and  managed HVV Den Haag for 22 years (1913–1935).

P	W	D	L	%
21	8	6	7	38%

8. Harry 'Jim' Waites (England:1921)
Waites never played at senior level- he was a rugby player, After the war, during which he was imprisoned, he managed a number of Dutch soccer clubs- most notably Feyenoord.
On 12.06.21 he oversaw a 1-1 draw against Denmark at Copenhagen.

9. Bob Glendenning (England: 25.10.1923 & 1925-*)
Glendenning played half back for Barnsley (playing in 2 FA Cup Finals) and Bolton Wanderers.

P	W	D	L	%
73	31	13	29	42.46

Also 7 unofficial internationals...

P	W	D	L	%
4	2	1	4	50

 *Glendenning was coach up until 1940 but these stats cover the period up until the summer of 1937. 

10. Billy Townley (England: 1924)
The former Blackburn Rovers star was the coach at the 1924 Olympics.

P	W	D	L	%
8	2	3	3	25

11. John 'Jan' Bollington (England:1924)

Bollington oversaw a  2-1 victory over South Africa on 02.11.1924.

German National Champions 1920-33

1920 1. FC Nuremberg 
The regional leagues produced 7 qualifiers, joined by defending champions SpVgg Furth, to contest the national championship. The final was a local derby in which 1. FC Nuremberg defeated Furth 2-0 at Frankfurt. Acrowd of 35,.000 saw Luitpold  Popp put Nuremberg ahead in the 12th minute. Hungarian international  Péter Szabó added a second in the 73rd minute. 

1921 1. FC Nuremberg 
Nuremberg defended their title, defeating Berliner FC Vorwärts 1890 in the final at Dusseldorf.  Luitpold  Popp scored 3 and fellow German international Heiner Träg got 2 in a 5-0 victory. The legendary Hungarian Dori Kürschner was now in charge of Nuremberg.

1922  Hamburger SV*
 Nuremberg's attempt to secure a third successive championship was thwarted in what was one of the most remarkable encounters in football history. 
1. FC Nuremberg met Hamburger SV in the final at Berlin's Deutsches Stadion on 18th June 1922. The scores were level at 2-2 on 90 minutes. Following a conventional period of extra time an attempt was made to play to a result, but  referee Dr. Peco Bauwens was forced to abandon the game after 180 minutes due to darkness.
The 2 sides met again in Liepzig on August 6th. Nuremberg were reduced to 10 men when Dr. Bauwens sent off Willy Böß in the 18th minute. Nuremberg were further weakened when Anton Kugler was forced to retire with an injury with 15 minutes remaining.  Hamburg were unable to capitalize, and with the scores level at 1-1 the game again, ominously , moved into extra time. Heiner Träg was ordered off in the 100th minute and 5 minutes later Luitpold Popp, incapacitated by asthma, left the field.  With Nuremberg reduced to 7 players the referee ended the game, mistakenly believing the laws of the game demanded it. 
There was some controversy over the award of the championship. The DFB awarded the title to Hamburg by default, but they declined to accept it. 

1923 Hamburger SV
Hamburg returned and secured the title in a more conventional manner, beating SC Union Oberschöneweide at Deutsches Stadion watched by 64,000.

1924 1. FC Nuremberg .
Nuremburg and Hamburg resumed their rivalry in the 1924 final. Georg Hochgesang and Wolfgang Strobel scored in Nuremberg's 2-0 victory at Deutsches Stadion.

1925 1. FC Nuremberg 
The national championship had now expanded to include 16 teams. 
Ludwig Wieder scored an extra time winner as FSV Frankfurt were beaten 1-0 in the brand new Waldstadion (Frankfurt ).

1926 SpVgg Fürth
The Waldstadion was again the venue as SpVgg Fürth beat Hertha BSC 4-1.  Former Blackburn Rovers star William Townley was manger of Fürth.

1927 1. FC Nuremberg  
A  fifth title for Nuremberg, 50,000 were at Deutsches Stadion to see them beat Hertha BSC 2-0.  Fred Spiksley was back as manager, having previously been at the club at the outbreak of the 1914-18 war. Trag was dismissed in the 75th minute for Nuremberg.

1928 Hamburger SV
It was not a case of third time lucky for Hertha BSC. They lost their third final in a row, beaten 5-2 by Hamburg at Altona. The finals were played in high summer, having been delayed by the absence of top players at the Amsterdam Olympics
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1929 SpVgg Fürth
Another late end to the season, this time because fixtures had been disrupted by the very harsh winter.  Misery again for Hertha  They beat Nuremberg in a replayed semi final (the first game had gone to 150 minutes without a goal being scored) - the final was played at Nuremberg's ground, and Hertha received a very hostile reception from local fans as they lost their fourth consecutive final. Hertha were reduced to 10 men by an injury to  Gerhard Schulz with the score at 1-1.Karl Rupprecht won it for Fürth (3-2) five minutes from time. 

1930  Hertha BSC
Hertha supporters and players must have been fearing the worst when , appearing in their 5th successive final, they were 2-0 down to Holstein Kiel after just 8 minutes. The game see sawed but  
Hans Ruch gave the Berlin side their long awaited victory with an 87th minute strike to round off the 5-4 thriller. Holstein had levelled at 4-4 despite being down to 10 following a sending off in the 80th minute.

1931  Hertha BSC
Hertha had developed a new habit-scoring late winners.  SV 1860 München were beaten 3-2 in the final thanks to Willi Kirsei's 89th minute goal. 

1932 Bayern Munich
The National final of 1932 was a repeat of that season's South German final . Eintracht Frankfurt won that game, with Bayern joining them in the National championship as runners up. Bayern got revenge in front of a 55,000 crowd at Nuremberg, beating Eintracht 2-0.  It was Bayern Munich's first title. 

Match Programme for the 1890 FA Cup Final

On 29th March 1890 20,000 people were at Kennington Oval to see Blackburn Rovers beat The Wednesday 6-1. Billy Townley got a hat trick. This was the first time this feat had been achieved in the FA Cup final.

Gottfried Fuchs

Fuchs, third from left, back row; Townley extreme right, back row.

 

Karlsruher FV 1910

Fuchs scores for KFV against Phoenix Karlsruhe, he's in the goal with the ball- look at the construction of the goals!

 

Germany 1912

                                                           Gottfried Fuchs in action

Gottfried Fuchs' place in football history was assured when, on July 1st 1912 he scored ten goals in an Olympic consolation match against Russia. It remains both Germany's biggest win and Russia's heaviest defeat.

Fuchs was Jewish (as were a number of his Karlsruher FV teammates), and in the 1930's he left Germany to settle in Canada.

Karlsruher FV were formed in 1891, and during the first decade of the 20th century they enjoyed great success. They were South Germany Champions in 1901, 1902, 1903, 1904, 1905, 1910, 1911 and 1912, runners up in the German National Champioships of 1905 and 1912, and German National champions in 1910. They won the championship under English coach Billy Townley.