Final round of the German team championship in chess 1955

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The final round of the German team championship in chess 1955 took place on January 7th and 8th, 1956 in Lindenfels (Odenwald).

The Düsseldorf Chess Society from 1925 , the Freiburg Chess Club from 1887 , the Hamburg Chess Society and the Frankfurt Chess Friends from 1921 in the final of the 9th West German Team Championship in Lindenfels. Willi Fohl was the tournament director.

Harry J. Steffes (Freiburg press officer) writes in the Badische Zeitung on January 12, 1956 : "For the first time after the war, the German Chess Federation did not have the final round of the team championship held according to the usual mode of everyone against everyone , but rather according to the knockout system ".

First round

Dusseldorf Frankfurt 5.0: 3.0
1 Georg Kieninger Walter Hunter draw
2 Walter Niephaus Paul Schlensker 1-0
3 Walter Loose Werner Kunerth draw
4th Immo Engert Paul Heuäcker draw
5 Siegfried Heil Rudolf Palme 0: 1
6th Rolf Roennefahrt Hans-Jürgen Kruger draw
7th Heiner Greeven Helmut Flammiger 1-0
8th Heinrich Lohmann Karl Menger 1-0
Hamburg Freiburg 5.0: 3.0
1 Ludwig Rellstab Gottlieb Machate 1-0
2 Georg Hodakowsky Rudolf Kraus 1-0
3 Lutz Klaeger Egon Heim 0: 1
4th Ottokar Martius Friedrich Kopp 1-0
5 Edgar Klaeger Hans Decker 0: 1
6th Georg Maicherczyk Klaus Geis 1-0
7th Karl Heinz Tscheppe Udo Cawi 0: 1
8th Rudolf Sielaff Siegfried Kalbitzer 1-0

Fight for first place

Dusseldorf Hamburg 5.0: 3.0
1 Georg Kieninger Ludwig Rellstab draw
2 Walter Niephaus Georg Hodakowsky draw
3 Walter Loose Lutz Klaeger 0: 1
4th Immo Engert Ottokar Martius draw
5 Siegfried Heil Edgar Klaeger 1-0
6th Rolf Roennefahrt Georg Maicherczyk 1-0
7th Heiner Greeven Karl Heinz Tscheppe draw
8th Heinrich Lohmann Rudolf Sielaff 1-0

Fight for third place

Freiburg Frankfurt 6.0: 2.0
1 Gottlieb Machate Walter Hunter 1-0
2 Rudolf Kraus Paul Schlensker draw
3 Egon Heim Werner Kunerth draw
4th Friedrich Kopp Paul Heuäcker draw
5 Hans Decker Rudolf Palme 1-0
6th Klaus Geis Hans-Jürgen Kruger 1-0
7th Udo Cawi Helmut Flammiger draw
8th Siegfried Kalbitzer Reimer part 1-0

The championship team

1. Düsseldorf Chess Society from 1925
Chess pieces

Georg Kieninger , Walter Niephaus , Walter Loose , Immo Engert, Siegfried Heil, Rolf Roennefahrt, Heiner Greeven, Heinrich Lohmann

swell

  • Ludwig Rellstab : Düsseldorf Chess Society from 1925 German team champion . Schach-Echo 1956, issue 2, title page (report and results)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Pekka Kauppala / Peter Bolt: 100 Years of Chess in Freiburg - The History of the Freiburg Chess Club . Schachwoche Verlag, 1987, p. 31