Career
In 1912 he was also one of the founders of the Dutch Olympic Committee (NOC). When Fédération internationale de football association-president Daniel Burley Woolfall died in 1918, Hirschman kept the organization from falling apart, almost single-handedly and at his own costs, operating from his offices in Amsterdam. He was Fédération internationale de football association"s interim president until Jules Rimet was elected its third president in March 1921.
After the Crash of 1929 Hirschman"s stock trading company went bankrupt and the money he had invested for the NOC and Fédération internationale de football association was mostly lost.
Hirschman unexpectedly resigned from both NOS and Fédération internationale de football association in 1931.