Edi Finger
Ferdinand Lube, the sports club youth leader at the time, who wrote sports reports for the Kleine Zeitung, suggested Edi Finger, who was working for the Mining Union at the time, as his successor. Finger was denounced,  and was drafted into military service despite his football injury. According to his own statements, he “ acted as stupid and clumsy as the ‘ good soldier Schwejk ’”, so that he returned from the last months of the war relatively safe and sound.