Max Scheuer

Max Scheuer (9 September 1895 – post August 1941) He played for the Austria national football team in the 1923 season. In the 1920s, he played for and captained Hakoah Vienna. He was murdered in the Auschwitz concentration camp at some point after August 1941.

Biography Scheuer was born in Austria, and was Jewish.

Scheuer was in the starting lineup and played as a defender for the Austria national football team against the Hungary national football team in a FIFA match in the 1923 season. With the team he won the Austrian championship in the 1924–25 Austrian First League season, the first professional Austrian football title.

In 1927, he and the team came to the United States to play the Bethlehem Steel Football Club in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, the defending U.S. champion and 1926-27 champion of the American Soccer League. He fled Austria to France, and played briefly for Olympique Marseille.

He was captured by the Nazis while he was in France, on his way to neutral Switzerland.

Scheuer was one of at least seven Hakoah footballers killed in the Holocaust.