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Nicolae Hönigsberg

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Nicolae Hönigsberg / Miklós Kinigli
Personal information
Date of birth (1901-08-28)28 August 1901
Place of birth Nagyvárad, Austria-Hungary
Date of death 8 December 1944(1944-12-08) (aged 43)
Place of death Mauthausen, Nazi Germany
Position(s) Midfielder
Youth career
Nagyváradi AC
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1921–1925 CA Oradea 53 (18)
Haggibor Cluj
Total 53 (18)
International career
1922–1924 Romania 6 (0)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Nicolae Hönigsberg (also known as Miklós Kinigli; 28 August 1901 – 8 December 1944) was a Romanian footballer of Hungarian and Jewish ethnicity.[1] He competed in the men's tournament at the 1924 Summer Olympics.[2]

Club career

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Nicolae Hönigsberg was born on 28 August 1901 in Nagyvárad, Austria-Hungary (today Oradea in Romania), starting to play football at local club, CA Oradea for whom he appeared in 53 league matches and scored 18 goals.[3][4] His biggest performance with Oradea was reaching the 1923–24 Divizia A final where they lost 4–1 in front of Chinezul Timișoara.[5][6] By the late 1920s he played for Haggibor Cluj, the team of the city's Jewish community.[3]

International career

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Nicolae Hönigsberg was used all the minutes by coach Teofil Morariu in the first official match of Romania's national team at the 1922 King Alexander's Cup, against Yugoslavia which ended with a 2–1 win in which he had a praised performance by the press.[3][7][8][9] He appeared in a total of six games for the national team, the last one being a 6–0 loss in front of Netherlands at the first round of the 1924 Summer Olympics.[3][10]

In January 1932, the Gazeta Sporturilor newspaper made a series of articles in which it was analyzed who were the best players of Romania's national team in its first 10 years of activity and Hönigsberg was considered the third best midfielder, being described as:"Finally, the third great midfielder who operated in the national team was Hönigsberg from Oradea, known in the sports world as Kinigli. Without having the physique of Vogl or Steinbach, he surpassed them with his colossal breath and the extraordinary activity he carried out during the game, which he contested with determination. He was nevertheless one of the fairest players and enjoyed remarkable popularity. On the whole, however, he was inferior to both Vogl and Steinbach."[3]

Scores and results table. Romania's goal tally first:[8]
International appearances
App Date Venue Opponent Result Competition
1. 8 June 1922 Belgrade, Yugoslavia  Yugoslavia 2–1 Friendly
2. 3 September 1922 Chernivtsi, Romania  Poland 1–1 Friendly
3. 10 June 1923 Bucharest, Romania  Yugoslavia 1–2 Friendly
4. 1 July 1923 Cluj, Romania  Czechoslovakia 0–6 Friendly
5. 20 May 1924 Vienna, Austria  Austria 1–4 Friendly
6. 27 May 1924 Colombes, France  Netherlands 0–6 1924 Summer Olympics

Personal life and death

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After he ended his playing career, Nicolae Hönigsberg worked as a civil servant in Cluj, then in 1935 he was a merchant in Sicily.[3]

Because of his Jewish origins, Hönigsberg was taken to the Mauthausen concentration camp in 1944, during World War II, being one of the Holocaust victims, dying on 8 December, aged 43.[3][11]

Honours

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CA Oradea

References

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  1. ^ "Nicolae Hönigsberg". Olympedia. Retrieved 21 August 2021.
  2. ^ Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Nicolae Hönigsberg Olympic Results". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 18 April 2020. Retrieved 5 October 2018.
  3. ^ a b c d e f g "Poveste cutremurătoare: un internațional român a murit într-unul dintre cele mai crunte lagăre de exterminare naziste, numit "Tocătorul de oase"" [Shocking story: a Romanian international died in one of the cruelest Nazi extermination camps, called "The Bone Crusher"] (in Romanian). Gsp.ro. 31 December 2024. Retrieved 8 January 2025.
  4. ^ Kleszken, Ioan (2022). Istoria clubului de fotbal CAO/NAC Oradea Vol.1. Iași: Editura Zupia. pp. 48–174. ISBN 978-606-9722-24-4.
  5. ^ a b Nicolae Hönigsberg at RomanianSoccer.ro (in Romanian)
  6. ^ a b "Divizia A Season 1923–24". Romaniansoccer.ro. Retrieved 8 January 2025.
  7. ^ "8 iunie 1922. Primul meci din istoria nationalei de fotbal" [8 June 1922. The first match in the history of the national football team] (in Romanian). A1.ro. 8 June 2012. Retrieved 8 January 2025.
  8. ^ a b "Nicolae Hönigsberg". European Football. Retrieved 8 January 2025.
  9. ^ "Yugoslavia 1-2 Romania". European Football. Retrieved 8 January 2025.
  10. ^ "Povestea partidei de pomină cu Olanda în care România a fost nimicită. Selecționerul a mers în voiaj de nuntă și n-a ajuns la meci! + Jucătorii și-au căutat singuri un restaurant unde se gătea cu untură!" [The story of the match with Holland in which Romania was destroyed. The coach went on a wedding trip and didn't make it to the match! + The players themselves searched for a restaurant where the food was cooked with lard!] (in Romanian). Gsp.ro. 27 June 2024. Retrieved 8 January 2025.
  11. ^ "Holocaust Survivors and Victims Database / Miklós Hönigsberg". Ushmm.org. Retrieved 8 January 2025.
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