Hans-Hilmar Staudte

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Hans Hilmar Staudte during a testimony in the Race and Settlement Main Office trial of the SS on January 29, 1948.

Hans-Hilmar Staudte (born January 18, 1911 in Kaldenkirchen , † January 21, 1979 in Münster ) was a German lawyer and chess master and composer .

Personal and professional

Staudte studied law and received his doctorate in 1940 at the University of Hamburg with the dissertation "Unreasonableness and the concept of criminal law".

During the Second World War , Staudte took over as deputy head of the Lebensborn legal department. According to his own information, he was a judge at the NSDAP Gaugericht in Munich and SS-Obersturmführer , was married and had a child who died young.

After the end of the war he was in Allied custody. Staudte testified as a witness during the Nuremberg trials .

He later worked as a ministerial advisor in the Federal Ministry of Finance in Bonn until he retired at the age of 65 . In favor of the professional career, he ended his activities in tournament chess. In 1979 he died after a long illness.

Tournament chess

Staudte started out with tournament chess. In 1925 he became a member of the Aachen Chess Club in 1856 . In 1935 he was split second in the championship of the Lower Rhine Chess Association. In 1941 he won in Starnberg as part of the Bavarian Chess Congress in one of three championship tournaments held in parallel, which enabled him to gain promotion to the championship tournament. In 1950 he finished in the German championship in Bad Pyrmont together with Bogoljubow the shared 2nd place behind Unzicker . In the same year he was third with the German national team at the 1950 Chess Olympiad in Dubrovnik, with his score of 7.5 points from 12 games he also achieved the third-best result of the reserve players.

His best historical rating was 2,620, which he reached in June 1950.

official

Staudte was secretary at the German Chess Federation from 1955 to 1961 .

Chess composition

Staudte dealt intensively with endgame studies . He composed studies himself that were published in magazines and FIDE albums .

Hans-Hilmar Staudte
German chess sheets 1935
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4th Chess --t45.svg Chess pdt45.svg Chess --t45.svg Chess --t45.svg Chess --t45.svg Chess pdt45.svg Chess --t45.svg Chess klt45.svg 4th
3 Chess --t45.svg Chess pdt45.svg Chess pdt45.svg Chess --t45.svg Chess --t45.svg Chess plt45.svg Chess --t45.svg Chess --t45.svg 3
2 Chess --t45.svg Chess plt45.svg Chess --t45.svg Chess --t45.svg Chess --t45.svg Chess plt45.svg Chess --t45.svg Chess --t45.svg 2
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                                                        (7 + 7)

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Solution:
 
1. g6 !! (An impressive pawn sacrifice that Black has to accept.)
 
Variants:
 
1.… fxg6 2. Bd4 !! (2. Nd4 + only makes a draw.) 2.… c2 3. Bh8! (Hinlenkung) Ke6 (3. ... C1D ?? 4. Nd4 #) 4. Nd4 + KD5 5. Sxb3 a4 6. Sc1 profit.
1.… Kxg6! 2. Ne5 + Kf5 3. Nd3 a4 (threatens to break through with 4.… a3) 4. Bd4 c2 5. Nc1! Ke6 6. Kg4 Kd5 7. Bf6! Kc4 8. Kxf4 a3! 9. Ke3 a2 10. Nxa2 bxa2 11. b3 +! Kxb3 12. Kd2 a1D! 13. Bxa1 Ka2 14. Kxc2 Kxa1 15. Kb3 Kb1 16. f4 !! (16. Kxb4? Kc2 17. Kc5 Kd3! 18. Kd5 Ke2 etc. with a draw.) 16.… Kc1 17. Kxb4 Kd2 18. Kc5 Kd3 (or 18.… Ke2 19. Kd6 etc.) 19. Kd5 Ke2 20 . Kd6 (not 20. Ke5?) 20.… Kxf2 (or 20.… Kf3 21. f5 with win) 21. Ke7 and White wins.


Staudte himself described this study as a "simple but instructive" example with a practical reference to the game of chess and positional play.

For decades he edited the study section of the magazine Schach-Echo and was also in demand as a judge. For decades he was responsible for the weekly problem section in the Aachener Anzeiger (later Aachener Nachrichten ).

In 1962 he was appointed International Chess Composition Judge.

In addition to his compositional work in the field of studies , Hans-Hilmar Staudte also dealt with fairy tale chess and published numerous auxiliary matting and self-matting tasks. Below are two supporting Matt tasks (black is more attractive ) as examples:

Hans-Hilmar Staudte
Theodor Steudel
(2588) Aachener Nachrichten November 27, 1970
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6th Chess --t45.svg Chess --t45.svg Chess ndt45.svg Chess pdt45.svg Chess --t45.svg Chess --t45.svg Chess --t45.svg Chess qdt45.svg 6th
5 Chess --t45.svg Chess --t45.svg Chess --t45.svg Chess --t45.svg Chess --t45.svg Chess pdt45.svg Chess --t45.svg Chess --t45.svg 5
4th Chess --t45.svg Chess bdt45.svg Chess --t45.svg Chess pdt45.svg Chess bdt45.svg Chess kdt45.svg Chess --t45.svg Chess ndt45.svg 4th
3 Chess pdt45.svg Chess --t45.svg Chess pdt45.svg Chess pdt45.svg Chess --t45.svg Chess --t45.svg Chess pdt45.svg Chess plt45.svg 3
2 Chess rdt45.svg Chess --t45.svg Chess --t45.svg Chess --t45.svg Chess --t45.svg Chess rdt45.svg Chess plt45.svg Chess --t45.svg 2
1 Chess rlt45.svg Chess --t45.svg Chess --t45.svg Chess --t45.svg Chess klt45.svg Chess --t45.svg Chess --t45.svg Chess --t45.svg 1
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 C +                                                    (4 + 15)

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Solution:
 
1. Bd5 0–0–0 2. Ke4 + Kb1 3. Ta1 + Kxa1 4. Rf4 Re1 #


This composition, recorded in the FIDE album , shows a change of position of the white king and rook and a white castling .

Hans-Hilmar Staudte
Schach-Echo 1971
2nd prize
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7th Chess rdt45.svg Chess plt45.svg Chess --t45.svg Chess pdt45.svg Chess --t45.svg Chess klt45.svg Chess --t45.svg Chess --t45.svg 7th
6th Chess plt45.svg Chess kdt45.svg Chess --t45.svg Chess plt45.svg Chess ndt45.svg Chess --t45.svg Chess --t45.svg Chess --t45.svg 6th
5 Chess --t45.svg Chess pdt45.svg Chess --t45.svg Chess --t45.svg Chess --t45.svg Chess --t45.svg Chess --t45.svg Chess --t45.svg 5
4th Chess --t45.svg Chess --t45.svg Chess --t45.svg Chess --t45.svg Chess --t45.svg Chess --t45.svg Chess --t45.svg Chess --t45.svg 4th
3 Chess rlt45.svg Chess --t45.svg Chess --t45.svg Chess --t45.svg Chess --t45.svg Chess --t45.svg Chess --t45.svg Chess --t45.svg 3
2 Chess --t45.svg Chess --t45.svg Chess --t45.svg Chess --t45.svg Chess --t45.svg Chess --t45.svg Chess --t45.svg Chess --t45.svg 2
1 Chess --t45.svg Chess --t45.svg Chess --t45.svg Chess --t45.svg Chess --t45.svg Chess --t45.svg Chess --t45.svg Chess --t45.svg 1
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 C +                                                     (6 + 5) auxiliary mat in 2 moves
3 solutions

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Set game:
 
1.… b8N 2. Nc7 Nxd7 #
 
Solutions:
 
1.Rxa6 b8L 2.Ra7 Bxa7 #
1. Rxa8 b8T + 2. Ka7 Rb7 #
1.Nc5 b8D + 2.Nb7 Qc7 #


The representation of a cumulative task of the all-conversion in the form of a three-in-hand, whereby the four possibilities of a pawn conversion were divided into set and solution game.

Publications

  • From the world of chess studies , Loeffler, Bad Nauheim 1961
  • with Kurt Richter : Right and wrong. Practical endgame studies , Walter de Gruyter, Berlin 1962, (2nd edition 1978, ISBN 3-11-007428-1 )
  • with Milu Milescu : The 1 × 1 of the endgame. A teaching and reading book for the art of endgame , Walter de Gruyter, Berlin 1965 (2nd edition 1981, ISBN 3-11-007431-1 )

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Volker Koop: Giving the Führer a child - the SS organization "Lebensborn" eV , Cologne 2007, p. 4.
  2. ↑ a b Questioning of Dr. Hans Hilmar Staudte on May 16, 1947 in the morning by Robert Kempner and interrogation on August 25, 1947 by Herbert H. Meyer (2 p.m. to 4 p.m.). In: Archive of the Institute for Contemporary History , Munich, signature ZS-1545 1948/56 (online) .
  3. ↑ Hans-Hilmar Staudte's results at the Chess Olympiads on olimpbase.org (English)
  4. ^ H. Staudte and M. Milescu: The 1 × 1 of the endgame. A textbook and reading book for the art of endgame , 2nd exp. Ed., Walter de Gruyter, Berlin 1981. ISBN 3-11-007431-1 , p. 166
  5. ↑ International judges for chess compositions

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personal data
SURNAME Staudte, Hans-Hilmar
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German chess master and composer
DATE OF BIRTH January 18, 1911
PLACE OF BIRTH Kaldenkirchen
DATE OF DEATH January 21, 1979
Place of death Muenster