Baruch Kern (Austria) - Austrian National Team (1931)

1931

Austrian National Team

Baruch Kern

Austria

4? cards

The photocards are unnumbered, with the handwritten surname of each player on blank back.

Each card is embossed with the name of the studio: B. Kern (Wien XII, Hauptstr. 65). Baruch Kern owned the "Fotoatelier-Baruch Kern" from March 3, 1920 to 1938 as a registered photographer in Vienna's 12th district, Meidlinger Hauptstraße 65. He was a well-known sports photographer in Vienna and mainly documented Viennese football in the 1920s and 30s. His studio was deregistered on January 1, 1939 by the Nazis, as he was of Jewish descent. He was deported to the Sobibor concentration camp on June 14, 1942 and murdered.

(Information from waltermentzel.wordpress.com).

A report (which also features the same four studio portraits) on the Austrian national team and intertwined fates of Nausch, Sindelar, Gall, and Mock can be found at abohemiansportinglife.wordpress.com. Otto Lam has provided the photos and is looking for further information, if you can help please leave a comment.

Karl Gall

Hans Mock

Walter Nausch

Matthias Sindelar