Der jüdische Sport im Salzburg der Zwischenkriegszeit

Abstract

The Jewish community in Salzburg before 1938 never exceeded 300 and there were consequently hardly any Jewish sportsmen/women. Anti-Semitism was quite common, especially in the city of Salzburg, where nearly the whole Jewish community lived and where sport had been established by that time. There were, nevertheless, a few personalities who had a major impact on the development of sport (i. e. football) in Salzburg such as Johann (Isak) Dachinger, who played a part in the foundation of Austria Salzburg in 1933, Erwin Bonyhadi, who was an official in various clubs and the SFV (Salzburg Football Association), and Ferdinand Morawetz, the »founding father of football in Salzburg«, who was co-founder and official of the two oldest football clubs, helped to establish an independent football association in Salzburg in 1921, and was kicked out of Salzburger AK 1914 when the club introduced an Aryan Paragraph, just a few months after he had organised a football ground for the club.