Henrik Nádler

Henrik Nádler (19 March 1901 – 12 May 1944) was a Hungarian international footballer who played as a left midfielder.[1][2] He was a seven-time Hungarian champion while playing for MTK Budapest.[3][2]

Henrik Nádler
Personal information
Date of birth (1901-03-19)19 March 1901
Place of birth Budapest, Austria-Hungary
Date of death 12 May 1944(1944-05-12) (aged 43)
Place of death Buchenwald concentration camp,
Weimar, Nazi Germany
Position(s) Left midfielder
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1919–1930 MTK Budapest
National team
1924–1926 Hungary 7 (0)
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only

Biography

Nádler was born in Budapest and was Jewish.[3] He was the son of Izsák, a suitcase maker, and Roza Acht, and had six siblings: Bertalan, Emma, Gizella, Illés, Renee, and Rozalia.[4]

He played football for MTK Budapest between 1919 and 1930. Nádler was a seven-time league champion for MTK (1919–20, 1920–21, 1921–22, 1922–23, 1923–24, 1924–25, and 1928–29) and two-time Hungarian Cup winner (1923 and 1925).[2][3][5] He scored six goals in 107 matches in all competitions for the club.[3]

Between 1924 and 1926, Nádler earned seven caps for the Hungary national team.[3] He was a member of the team that participated in the 1924 Summer Olympics,[6] but did not enter the field.[3]

Nádler died as a laborer at the hands of the Nazis during World War II.[3] While the place and time of his death is given in some sources as Mauthausen concentration camp in 1945,[3] he died in Germany, in Buchenwald concentration camp, on 12 May 1944.[3][2]

References
  1. Jakov Sobovitz. "The History of Sport and Physical Education among the Jewish People in Hungary in the Last 120 Years". International Society of Olympic Historians.
  2. Bolchover, David (May 6, 2019). "Remembering the cream of Jewish footballing talent killed in the Holocaust". The Guardian.
  3. "Nádler Henrikre emlékezünk". mtkbudapest.hu. December 5, 2019.
  4. Vizkelety, Vincent (8 July 2020). "Graffiti in Budapest: The Mystery of Renée Nadler". National Library of Israel. Retrieved 8 September 2020.
  5. McDougall, Alan (2020). Contested Fields: A Global History of Modern Football. University of Toronto Press. ISBN 9781487594565 – via Google Books.
  6. "1924 Summer Olympics - The Results (Football)". sport-olympic.gr.
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