Pavel Mahrer

Pavel Mahrer
Personal information
Date of birth	23 May 1900
Place of birth	Teplice, Bohemia
Date of death	18 December 1985 (aged 85)
Place of death	United States
Position(s)	Wing half
Senior career*
Years	Team
	Teplitzer FK
1923–1926	DFC Prag
1926–1927	Brooklyn Wanderers
1928–1931	Hakoah All Stars
1932–1933	Teplitzer FK
1933–1936	DFC Prag
International career
1923–1926	Czechoslovakia
	*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Pavel Mahrer (or Paul Mahrer, 23 May 1900 – 18 December 1985) was a Czech football midfielder of German-Jewish ethnicity who played at the 1924 Summer Olympics.^[1] Bank clerk and merchant by occupation, Mahrer played professionally in Czechoslovakia and the United States.^[2]

Club career

Mahrer began his career with Teplitzer FK. In 1923, he joined DFC Prag before moving to the United States in 1926 to sign with the Brooklyn Wanderers of the American Soccer League. He returned to Czechoslovakia after the season, but was back in the United States in December 1928. At that time, he joined the Hakoah All Stars in the Eastern Professional Soccer League.^[3] In 1929, Hakoah moved to the American Soccer League, where Mahrer played until the fall of 1931. In 1932, he returned to Czechoslovakia to sign with Teplitzer FK. In 1933, he moved to DFC Prag, where he finished his career in 1936. After the German occupation of the Sudetenland, he was imprisoned at the Theresienstadt concentration camp on account of his Jewish ethnicity. He survived World War II and died in 1985 in the United States.

International

Mahrer earned six caps with the Czechoslovakia national football team between 1923 and 1926. In 1924, he played two games for the Czechoslovak Olympic football team at the 1924 Summer Olympics.^[4]

References

^ Král, Lubomír (2006). Historie německé kopané v Čechách. Prague: MJF Praha. p. 138. ISBN 80-86284-59-X.
^ Král, Lubomír (2019). Historie židovské kopané v Československu. Prague: MJF Praha. pp. 209–213. ISBN 978-80-88227-03-8.
^ CAMPBELL TO JOIN BETHLEHEM BOOTERS
^ "Pavel Mahrer". Olympedia. Retrieved 23 August 2021.

External links

Pavel Mahrer – FIFA competition record (archived)
Pavel Mahrer at FAČR (in Czech)
Jose, Colin (1998). American Soccer League, 1921-1931 (Hardback). The Scarecrow Press. ISBN 0-8108-3429-4. ().

[1] Král, Lubomír (2006). Historie německé kopané v Čechách. Prague: MJF Praha. p. 138. ISBN 80-86284-59-X.

[2] Král, Lubomír (2019). Historie židovské kopané v Československu. Prague: MJF Praha. pp. 209–213. ISBN 978-80-88227-03-8.

[3] CAMPBELL TO JOIN BETHLEHEM BOOTERS

[4] "Pavel Mahrer". Olympedia. Retrieved 23 August 2021.

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Authority control databases
International	VIAF
National	Germany