Otto Fischer

Otto Fischer (* 1 January 1901 in Vienna, † July 1941 in Liepāja) was an Austrian football player. He played as forward for different teams in Vienna and in the Austrian national football team.

Otto Fischer
Personal information
Full nameOtto Fischer
Date of birth(1901-01-01)1 January 1901
Place of birthVienna, Austria-Hungary
Date of death1 July 1941(1941-07-01) (aged 40)
Place of deathLiepaja, Latvia
Playing positionForward
Senior career*
YearsTeamApps(Gls)
1920–1921ASV Hertha Wien
1921Karlsbader FK
1923–1926First Vienna FC
1926–1930Hakoah Vienna
National team
1923–1928Austria7(0)
Teams managed
1930–1931Mačva Šabac
1931-1932FC Salzburg
1932–1934DSV Saaz
1934–1935Concordia Zagreb
1936–1941Olimpia Liepaja
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only

Career

He started at ASV Hertha Wien, where he also made his first appearances in the top league. In 1921 he accepted an offer from German Bohemia and played for Karlsbader FK for two years. He then returned to First Vienna FC. In his three years at the club, they were runners-up twice and also reached the ÖFB Cup final twice. After losing their entire forward line to New York clubs as a result of their first tour of North America, SC Hakoah Wien were forced to find other forwards and one of the newcomers was Fischer. At the beginning of 1928 he went to SC Wacker Wien. Then he went back to Hakoah, but had to end his career early due to a knee injury. [1]

International career

He made his international debut in September 1923 in a 2-0 loss to Hungary in Budapest. He made his seventh and last game in national dress in October 1928 against Switzerland.

Managing career

After the end of his playing career he became manager of the Serbian club FK Mačva Šabac. Then he coached FC Salzburg. In 1932 he took over training at DSV Saaz, where he stayed for two years. 1934 he went back to Yugoslavia to HŠK Concordia Zagreb. From 1936 on he worked in Latvia, where he was a coach of Olympia Libau. He was in 1936, 1938 and 1939 Latvian football champion with the club. [2]

Death

Being of jewish origin he was killed in the Liepāja massacres in July 1941.[3] Also his wife Anna Fischer fell victim to the National Socialists.The majority of Fischer's family living in Vienna were also murdered by the National Socialists. His mother Netty Fischer was killed in the Theresienstadt ghetto in 1943. His brother Hugo Fischer, his wife Ilona and their daughter Gerda did not survive the 1942 deportation to the Auschwitz concentration camp. Only his sister Ernestine and her two children Paul and Alice survived the Nazi terror. [4]

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