Georg Wiarda
Georg Jakob Wiarda (born April 12, 1889 in Magdeburg - Sudenburg , † March 19, 1971 in Stuttgart ) was a German mathematician and chess player.
Life
Wiarda, son of insurance officer Dr. Diddo Wiarda, graduated from high school in Elberfeld in 1909 and then studied in Berlin and Marburg. In 1915 he received his doctorate at the Philipps University of Marburg on the subject of "About certain integral equations of the first kind, especially from the field of potential theory" . In 1921 he moved from his home in the Rhineland to Dresden and worked at the TH Dresden until he was appointed full professor at the TH Stuttgart in 1935 . In November 1933 he signed the German professors' confession of Adolf Hitler .
Chess player
Wiarda was second in the main tournament A of the DSB in Düsseldorf in 1908, ahead of 16-year-old Alekhine , whom he was able to defeat in a direct comparison. Later he became a Rheinischer Meister. He participated frequently and successfully in tournaments of the Saxon Chess Federation and the Dresden Chess Club. In 1932 he won the title "Master of Saxony for 1932" in Bad Schandau. He was a five-time Dresden master. He also played correspondence chess with success.
In addition to the translations of two chess books, Wiarda was co-editor of a two-volume commemorative publication for the 50th anniversary of the Dresden chess club. Organizationally, he took part in chess life within the framework of his professional possibilities and campaigned for a qualification system that encouraged the next generation and restricted the privileges of the masters, to whom he himself belonged.
Fonts (selection)
as an author
- (together with Friedrich Palitzsch ): At the bubbling chess source . DeGruyter, Berlin 1926.
- Festschrift of the Dresden Chess Club 1876-1926 .
- Anniversary Chess Congress in Dresden 1926 .
- Planimetric division tasks . Mentor-Verlag, Berlin-Schöneberg 1922.
- Contributions to the theory of Laguerre's polynomials and to the summation problem of orthogonal systems. DeGruyter, Bremen 1924.
- Integral equations with special consideration of the applications. BG Teubner, Leipzig 1930.
- Higher mathematics and engineering mechanics for civil engineers. Wittwer, Stuttgart, 1951 and 1953.
as translator
- José Raúl Capablanca : Basics of Chess Strategy. DeGruyter, Berlin 1927.
- Eugène Znosko-Borovsky : You can't play chess like this! Hedewig's successor, Leipzig 1932.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Birth register of StA Magdeburg-Sudenburg, No. 324/1889
- ↑ Death Register StA Stuttgart, No. 1037/1971
- ^ Mathematics Genealogy Project
- ↑ Dresden Latest News , October 13, 1935
- ↑ Deutsche Schachblätter , No. 9/1932, p. 153.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Wiarda, Georg |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Wiarda, Georg Jakob (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German mathematician and chess player |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 12, 1889 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Magdeburg - Sudenburg |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 19, 1971 |
| Place of death | Stuttgart |