German chess sheets
The Deutsche Schachblätter were a chess magazine that appeared once or twice a month and, with an interruption due to the war, functioned from 1909 to 1943 as an organ of the German Chess Federation and the Greater German Chess Federation . After the war the magazine was published in Leipzig from 1948 to 1952 . A magazine of the same name existed in the Federal Republic from 1962 to 1986.
founding
In 1907 and 1908 a magazine called Süddeutsche Schachblätter was published as the “Organ of the Bavarian Chess Federation ”, but it was discontinued for financial reasons. The German chess sheets were first published in July 1909 on behalf of the board of the German Chess Federation. They were also the organ of the federal government and its regional associations. Initially, the Deutsche Schachblätter appeared in Coburg in the Riemann'schen Hofbuchhandlung and were published in bi -monthly booklets by Hans Appunn and Franz Sackmann with the help of Paul Lipke and Siegbert Tarrasch .
Development of the magazine until it was discontinued in 1952
After a forced break of two years after the First World War , the German chess sheets came back onto the market in 1921 with the support of DSB chairman Walter Robinow .
In January 1922 Curt Ronniger's publishing house in Leipzig took over the publication of the German chess sheets . From 1934, after Paul Krüger and Walther Freiherr von Holzhausen , the chief editor was the Berlin chess master Kurt Richter . In the course of the National Socialists' seizure of power and the restructuring in German chess, the German chess sheets were expanded to become the organ of the Greater German Chess Federation . Until September 1939, the Deutsche Schachblätter appeared twice a month, then until 1943 once a month as a double issue.
In April 1943, all existing German chess magazines - in addition to the Deutsche Schachbl Blätter , the Deutsche Schachzeitung , the Schach-Echo and Die Schwalbe - were merged into a joint organ ( Deutsche Schachzeitung ). Due to the chaos of the war, the editions could only appear to a very limited extent.
After the end of the Second World War , Kurt Richter tried to revive the German chess sheets with a monthly edition in April 1948 . The booklet was published in the 33rd year by Hans Hedewig's Successor in Leipzig. At the end of 1952, the publication was stopped in favor of the new magazine Schach , because there was no paper for a second chess magazine in the GDR . The proof sheets for the January 1953 edition were already available.
Renewed tradition in the Federal Republic (1962–1986)
A decade later, the tradition-steeped magazine was followed up in the Federal Republic of Germany. In 1962, the Süddeutsche Schachzeitung produced a new magazine called Deutsche Schachblätter . The editor was the press officer of the DSB, Alfred Diel . The monthly magazine acted as the "press organ of the DSB", a supplement ( Süddeutsche Schachzeitung ) contained information from the southern German state associations and from Hesse. The organ of the German Youth Chess Youth and School Chess (1970 to 1973) and Youth Chess Sport (1977-1979) was also temporarily attached. In 1976 the issue price was 1.70 DM , in 1986 it was 2.40 DM.
At the beginning of 1987, Joachim Beyer Verlag took over the magazine Deutsche Schachblätter and integrated it into Günter Lossa's chess report .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Deutsche Schachzeitung 7/1909, pp. 223/224
- ↑ Communication from Lothar Schmids in the Deutsche Schachzeitung 1970, p. 106.
literature
- Michael Negele: (Not) a serenade for a birthday - A foray through the German chess magazine landscape , in: Schach , No. 6/2006, pp. 36–44.