Heinrich Wagner (chess player)

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Heinrich Wagner (born August 9, 1888 in Hamburg ; † June 24, 1959 there ) was a German chess player .

Heinrich Wagner was a senior teacher by profession. After the First World War he played for the Kiel Chess Society from 1884 . In 1921 he won a championship tournament in Kiel ahead of Friedrich Sämisch , at the Chess Congress of the German Chess Federation in Frankfurt am Main in 1923 he took second place behind Ernst Grünfeld together with Ehrhardt Post . In 1925 he shared third place with Akiba Rubinstein at the German Individual Championship in Breslau , which Efim Bogoljubow won ahead of Aaron Nimzowitsch . In 1926 in Vienna he won together with Karl Gilg , in 1930 a tournament in Hamburg, in the same year he defeated Herbert Heinicke in a competition in Hamburg with 8.5: 3.5. For Germany he played at the Chess Olympiads in 1927 , 1928 , 1930 and 1931 . The German national team won the bronze medal with him in Hamburg in 1930.

In 1953 he was awarded the title of International Master (IM) by the World Chess Federation . The best historical Elo rating was 2585 for the year 1925. At that time, taking into account the dubious calculation bases of a historical Elo number, he was one of the world's top twenty chess players. In his honor, a Heinrich Wagner memorial tournament was played in Kiel in 1959 , which was won by the Danish IM Jens Enevoldsen ahead of Rudolf Teschner . Wagner owned one of the world's largest book collections on chess tournaments.

literature

  • Wolfgang Kübel: The competition Heinrich Wagner-Heinicke, Hamburg 1930. Cologne 1974
  • Alfred Diel : Four times on the Olympic team. In: Kaissiber , No. 5, 1998, pp. 63-64

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ German individual chess championship 1923 in Frankfurt / Main on TeleSchach (cross table and games)
  2. ↑ German individual chess championship 1925 in Breslau on TeleSchach (cross table and games)
  3. ↑ Heinrich Wagner's results at the Chess Olympiads on olimpbase.org (English)
  4. ↑ Willy Iclicki: FIDE Golden book 1924-2002 . Euroadria, Slovenia, 2002, p. 88
  5. ↑ Heinrich Wagner's historical Elo rating on chessmetrics.com (English)
  6. ↑ A short history of the Kiel Chess Society ( Memento from August 2, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
personal data
SURNAME Wagner, Heinrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German chess player
DATE OF BIRTH August 9, 1888
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg
DATE OF DEATH June 24, 1959
Place of death Hamburg