Arthur Gehlert

Arthur Gehlert (born April 5, 1833 in Johanngeorgenstadt ; † January 13, 1904 in Berlin ) was a German businessman , entrepreneur and politician . He owned the felt and scratch cloth factory in Dittersdorf (near Chemnitz) and was a member of the German Reichstag , in which he had represented the German Reich Party since 1884 .

He was the son of the spoon manufacturer August Friedrich Gehlert in Johanngeorgenstadt, who had acquired citizenship there in 1811 . In 1858 he settled as an independent businessman in Chemnitz , in 1875 he set up a felt and scratch cloth factory in Dittersdorf, which he owned until 1881, before he devoted himself entirely to politics.

Arthur Gehlert worked as a chess composer . His March 8, 1903 as a supplement of the German Week chess published writing about the nature of the chess problem to the transcript he by Paul Schellenberg and John Kohtz had been encouraged in "Dresden Chess club," broke with decades postulated Berger 'rule Arts laws and initiated a Revolution in chess composition, which finally found its echo in a new compositional direction, the New German (or Logical) School .

Gehlert died in a Berlin clinic.

Fonts

• About the essence of the chess problem. Enclosure to: German weekly chess from March 8, 1903.
• (with Friedrich Amelung ): The oldest London chess circle on St. Marinstrasse. In: Deutsches Wochenschach , year 1904, p. 29.

Web links

• Arthur Gehlert in the database of members of the Reichstag
• Artur Gehlert's biography . In: Heinrich Best : database of the members of the Reichstag of the Empire 1867/71 to 1918 (Biorab - Kaiserreich)
• Compositions by Arthur Gehlert on the Schwalbe's PDB server

Individual evidence

1. ^ Manfred Zucker : Problem chess in Saxony. In: Chess in Saxony. Schachverband Sachsen, 2008, p. 335.
2. ↑ Manfred Zucker: Great German Problem Master (11) . In: Schach , No. 2, 1994, p. 76.