Ehrhardt Post

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Alfred M. Ehrhardt Post (born September 23, 1881 in Cottbus ; † August 1, 1947 in Berlin ) was a German chess master and official.

Chess career

Post, a public prosecutor by profession , achieved his first major tournament success in Berlin in 1907, when he took second place behind Richard Teichmann , but placed ahead of Rudolf Spielmann , Paul Saladin Leonhardt , Dawid Przepiórka and others. In 1910 he won the championship of Berlin by winning a competition (+6 = 3 −3) against the previous title holder Wilhelm Cohn . In 1921 he won the 21st Congress of the German Chess Federation , which was synonymous with the German championship , ahead of Friedrich Sämisch , Willi Schlage and others. He was able to repeat this success a year later in Bad Oeynhausen , second place went to Carl Carls . In 1923 at the congress in Frankfurt am Main , he shared 2nd place with Heinrich Wagner behind Ernst Grünfeld .

Activity as a chess official

Post had been president of the Berlin Chess Society since 1911 . As a functionary he stood out particularly because of his German national attitude. At the congress of the German Chess Federation in Mannheim in 1914, for example, he turned against the establishment of an international chess organization and supported a motion to limit the number of foreign players at the master's tournaments. At the 1920 congress in Berlin, he was clearly defeated by Walter Robinow in the election for chairman of the DSB . Post resigned from his office as 2nd chairman at the end of 1922 after further quarrels. When the DSB in 1933 forced the Greater German Chess Federation came up, was post Deputy Federal conductor Otto Zander and was at the same circuit involved of chess organizations and the exclusion of Jewish members. In 1939 he was appointed managing director under Federal Director Franz Moraller and in this function was able to direct the activities of the GSB in the following years with almost unlimited power, although he always remained the second man in the association hierarchy in terms of form and protocol.

His death in 1947 was only briefly mentioned in the chess press.

Study composer

Between 1934 and 1939, Post published a number of chess studies, most of them in the Deutsche Schachbl Blätter . However, they had the character of practical chess endings .

literature

  • Posts tournament successes in Dr. P. Feenstra Kuiper: One Hundred Years of Chess Tournaments 1851-1950, W. Ten Have n.V., Amsterdam 1964.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ German individual chess championship 1921 in Hamburg on TeleSchach (cross table and games)
  2. ↑ German individual championship 1922 in Bad Oeynhausen on TeleSchach (cross table and games)
  3. ↑ German individual chess championship 1923 in Frankfurt / Main on TeleSchach (cross table and games)
personal data
SURNAME Post, Ehrhardt
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Post, Alfred M. Ehrhardt
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German chess master and official
DATE OF BIRTH September 23, 1881
PLACE OF BIRTH cottbus
DATE OF DEATH August 1, 1947
Place of death Berlin