Bertold Lasker

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Bertold Lasker (left) with Else Lasker-Schüler, Anna Lindwurm-Lindner and Franz Lindwurm-Lindner, around 1900

Bertold Lasker , also Berthold Lasker , born as Jonathan Berthold Barnett Lasker (born December 30, 1860 in Berlinchen , Neumark , † October 19, 1928 in Berlin ) was a German chess master , doctor and writer. His first marriage was to Else Lasker-Schüler and a brother of the world chess champion Emanuel Lasker .

biography

Bertold Lasker was the son of a chasan and grandson of a respected rabbi . In Berlin he attended the Werdersche Gymnasium and graduated from high school in 1879 . From 1881 to 1888 he studied medicine at the Berlin University . He temporarily settled in Elberfeld as a doctor for about a year , where he met his future first wife, Else Lasker-Schüler . After the marriage in 1894, the couple lived in Berlin, where Lasker settled as a specialist in skin and leg diseases. The marriage with the famous poet turned out unhappy. A son was born in 1899, and Lasker-Schüler denied Bertold's paternity in court, which the district court found credible. Lasker-Schüler accused her husband of violence and they divorced in 1903. Bertold Lasker went to the USA for a longer stay at the beginning of the century. Without success he tried to open a second practice in New York . Afterwards Lasker lived permanently in Berlin. He died in 1928 just a few months after the death of his second wife Regina.

Chess successes

In the 1880s Lasker counted alongside Curt von Bardeleben , Siegbert Tarrasch , who was studying in Berlin , Fritz Riemann , Emil Schallopp and Theodor von Scheve among the strongest chess players in Berlin and thus also in Germany. Tarrasch called Lasker a "very ingenious player whose strength, unfortunately, due to his nervousness, has seldom achieved its due recognition in a tournament".

Lasker played a number of tournaments in Berlin: in 1881 he won ahead of Tarrasch, in 1890 he shared first place with his brother Emanuel (before Horatio Caro and Theodor von Scheve ) at the "Tournament of the Association of German Chess Masters" in 1890 In 1891 he came second after Horatio Caro. During his time in the United States, Bertold Lasker won the New York State Championship in 1902 . In June 1891, Lasker achieved his highest historical rating of 2683.

Bertold and Emanuel Lasker

Bertold (right) and Emanuel Lasker analyzing the chessboard in 1908 (photo by Frank Eugene )

Bertold 's main importance in chess history is that he introduced his brother Emanuel, who was eight years his junior and who lived with him in Berlin in the 1880s, to the game and the chess scene. Emanuel Lasker was then world chess champion from 1894 to 1921 . Bertold Lasker possessed wide-ranging interests and extensive knowledge in the fields of philosophy, art and comparative linguistic research . With his brother he wrote the play Vom Menschen die Geschichte in 1925 . The never-mentioned drama is described in the literature as a "deeply moral, thought-heavy piece".

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ so in the birth register (Archiwum Państwowe Gorzów Wielkopolski, Sąd Obwodowy w Barlinku, Duplikaty księg metrykalnych gminy żydowskiej, call number 66/886/0/3/4, entry 105) [1] ; on the tombstone December 31st
  2. ^ A b Sigrid Bauschinger : Else Lasker-Schüler. Biography. Wallstein, Göttingen 2004, ISBN 3-89244-440-4 , p. 45 ( online ).
  3. ↑ Chess Yearbook for 1899/1900. Leipzig 1899, p. 169.
  4. ↑ Erika Klüsener: Else Lasker-Schüler , Reinbek bei Hamburg 1980, p. 33 ff.
  5. ↑ Wolfgang Kamm: Siegbert Tarrasch, Life and Work. Biography on the 70th anniversary of death. Fruth, Unterhaching 2004, ISBN 3-933105-06-4 , p. 462.
  6. ↑ Walter Gödden: Prophet and Princess.
  7. ↑ See the joint tombstone ( memento from July 19, 2012 in the web archive archive.today ) Bertold and Regina Laskers at the Jewish cemetery in Berlin-Weißensee .
  8. ^ Siegbert Tarrasch: Three hundred chess games. 3. Edition. Van Goor Zonen, Gouda 1925, p. 21 f.
  9. ^ Tournament of the Association of German Chess Masters in July 1890. ( Memento from February 12, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) In: Deutsche Schachzeitung . No. 8, August 1890, p. 250 f.
  10. ^ New York State Chess Champions 1878-1972 , private website, accessed September 20, 2014.
  11. ↑ Berthold Lasker's historical Elo numbers on chessmetrics.com (English)
personal data
SURNAME Lasker, Bertold
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Lasker, Berthold; Lasker, Jonathan Berthold Barnett (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German chess master, doctor and writer
DATE OF BIRTH December 30, 1860
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlinchen , Neumark
DATE OF DEATH October 19, 1928
Place of death Berlin