Carl Wemmers

Carl Wemmers (* 1845 ; † September 18, 1882 in Cologne ) was a German chess master .

At the congress of the West German Chess Federation in Cologne in 1877, he shared second place behind Johannes Zukertort with Johannes Metger and Emil Schallopp . A year later in Frankfurt am Main he finished 8th ahead of Adolf Stern and Eduard Hammacher. Wemmers also took part in the first congress of the German Chess Federation in Leipzig in 1879, but did not get beyond the last place. In 1880 he finished 12th out of sixteen participants at the tournament in Wiesbaden, ahead of Alexander Fritz and Constantin Schwede. At the second DSB Congress in Berlin (1881) he shared 13th place with Fritz Riemann .

Wemmers was a businessman in Cologne, an amateur musician and a singer. He died of blood poisoning in his parents' house after several months of illness .

literature

P. Feenstra Kuiper: A hundred years of chess tournaments. The most important chess tournaments 1851-1950 , Amsterdam 1964

Individual evidence

^ Johann Berger : Chess Yearbook. For the year 1893 , Verlag Veit & Co., Leipzig 1893, p. 186.
↑ Deutsche Schachzeitung 1882, p. 337; British Chess Magazine 1882, p. 333; The Chess Player's Chronicle 1882, p. 482 ( excerpt ).

Web links

Playable chess games by Carl Wemmers on chessgames.com (English)
Classification on the historical world ranking list (1878-1882)

personal data
SURNAME	Wemmers, Carl
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Wemmers, Karl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German chess master
DATE OF BIRTH	1845
DATE OF DEATH	September 18, 1882
Place of death	Cologne

[1] Johann Berger : Chess Yearbook. For the year 1893 , Verlag Veit & Co., Leipzig 1893, p. 186.

[2] Deutsche Schachzeitung 1882, p. 337; British Chess Magazine 1882, p. 333; The Chess Player's Chronicle 1882, p. 482 ( excerpt ).