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Józef Klotz

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Józef Klotz
Personal information
Date of birth 2 January 1900
Place of birth Kraków, Galicia, Austria-Hungary
Date of death 1941 (aged 40–41)
Place of death Warsaw Ghetto, General Government
Height 1.85 m (6 ft 1 in)[1]
Position(s) Forward
Youth career
1910–1912 Jutrzenka Kraków
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1912–1925 Jutrzenka Kraków
1925–1929 Makabi Warsaw
International career
1922 Poland 2 (1)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Józef Klotz (2 January 1900 – 1941) was a Jewish Polish footballer who played as a forward.[2][3] He scored the first-ever goal for the Poland national football team. He was killed by the Nazis in the Warsaw Ghetto in 1941.

Biography

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Klotz was born in Kraków, southern Poland, and was Jewish.[2][4] His father was a shoemaker.[5]

He scored the first-ever goal for the Poland national football team. He scored it against Sweden in Stockholm in May 1922, in the team's third international match.[4][6][2][7][8]

Klotz played for two clubs. He played first for Jutrzenka Kraków, which he joined as a youth team player and played for from 1912 to 1925, and then for Makabi Warsaw from 1925 to 1929 (both teams were Jewish minority teams).[9][5][10] He retired as a player in 1930.[5]

He was imprisoned in the Warsaw Ghetto in 1940. He was murdered there by the Germans in 1941.[4][11][8][2][5]

In 2019, Klotz was honored by the Polish Football Association.[4][12]

International

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Poland Poland 0–3 Hungary Hungary

Sweden Sweden 1–2 Poland Poland

See also

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References

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  1. ^ "Jozef Klotz - Stats - titles won". www.footballdatabase.eu.
  2. ^ a b c d Bolchover, David (May 6, 2019). "Remembering the cream of Jewish footballing talent killed in the Holocaust". The Guardian.
  3. ^ Grunwald-Spier, Agnes (2016). Who Betrayed the Jews?: The Realities of Nazi Persecution in the Holocaust. The History Press. ISBN 9780750958011 – via Google Books.
  4. ^ a b c d "Poland honors national soccer player murdered in Holocaust" Israel HaYom, June 11, 2019.
  5. ^ a b c d Nick Westerby (June 10, 2019). "The man who scored Poland's first ever goal remembered ahead of tonight's game against Israel". The First News.
  6. ^ Radosław Kossakowski, Przemysław Nosal, Wojciech Woźniak (2020). Politics, Ideology and Football Fandom; The Transformation of Modern Poland
  7. ^ Henryk Vogler (1994). Wyznanie mojżeszowe: wspomnienia z utraconego czasu. pg 16: Państwowy Instytut Wydawniczy. p. 123. ISBN 83-06-02355-2.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location (link)
  8. ^ a b Eldad Beck (August 8, 2010). "Anti-Semitism feared ahead of Euro 2012". Ynetnews.
  9. ^ Strack-Zimmermann, Benjamin. "Józef Klotz". www.national-football-teams.com.
  10. ^ Liphshiz, Cnaan (June 7, 2019). "Polish soccer team honors Holocaust victim who scored its 1st international goal". The Times of Israel.
  11. ^ Grunwald-Spier, Agnes (2016). Who Betrayed the Jews?: The Realities of Nazi Persecution in the Holocaust. The History Press. ISBN 9780750958011 – via Google Books.
  12. ^ "Before Polish-Israeli soccer match, murdered Jewish player honored". The Jerusalem Post. June 10, 2019.

Sources

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  • ^ Andrzej Gowarzewski "FUJI Football Encyclopedia – History of the Polish National Team (1) – White and Red" ; GiA Katowice 1991
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