Heinz von Hennig

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Heinrich (Heinz) Georg Julius von Hennig (born May 10, 1883 at Gut Dembrowalonka, Strasburg district , West Prussia , † November 29, 1947 in Kiel ) was a German naval officer , most recently a rear admiral and a well-known chess player . He was one of the namesake of the Schara-Hennig-Gambit .

Life

family

He came from a family resident in Plösen near Leipzig in the 16th century and was the son of Friedrich (Fritz) von Hennig (1852-1907), Prussian district commissioner in Ostrowo ( province of Posen ), and his wife Jenny, née Plehn. His grandfather was the President of the Prussian Landtag Heinrich von Hennig (1818–1869).

Hennig married on June 4, 1921 in Berlin Ilse Leder (born November 6, 1896 in Chemnitz ; † unknown), the daughter of the businessman Otto Leder and Silvia Richter. Son Heinz comes from this marriage.

Military career

Hennig joined the Imperial Navy as a midshipman on April 1, 1902 . After his basic training on land and on the training ship SMS Stein , he completed the naval school and then joined the liner SMS Wettin . Here Hennig was promoted to lieutenant on September 29, 1905 . This was followed by assignments as officer on watch on the torpedo boat S 115 (1907), first officer on the fleet tender Alice Roosevelt (1908/09) and officer on watch on the submarine SM U 11 (1909/11), the small cruisers SMS Kolberg and SMS Cöln (1911) and the battleship SMS Helgoland (1911/13) he was given command of the submarine SM U 18 as a lieutenant commander in August 1913 .

U 18 set sail with nine other boats on August 6, 1914 shortly after the outbreak of the First World War for the first patrol. On November 23, 1914 Hennig managed to penetrate the bay of Scapa Flow , but found no British warships there. When trying to leave the bay again, the boat was rammed several times, so that von Hennig gave the order to sink the boat. Hennig and his crew became prisoners of war . On August 14, 1915, he and two comrades managed to escape, but he missed the meeting point with the submarine that was supposed to bring him back to Germany. He was caught a short time later and remained in captivity until January 1918. He was then interned in the Netherlands until December 1918.

After the war, Hennig served in the Reichsmarine . Among other things, he was in command of the fortifications of the Ems estuary in Borkum as well as chief of staff for the inspection of the naval education system. On September 30, 1931, he was retired from military service with the character of Rear Admiral.

In May 1939 it was made available to the Navy . Hennig was not used until April 7, 1940, as director of the station library of the Baltic Sea naval station . His mobilization provision was lifted on March 31, 1944.

The chess player

Hennig learned to play chess as a sea cadet. He won once (1919) the championship of the Berlin chess society and several times the city championship of Kiel. In 1932 he took a split second place behind Kieninger in Bad Ems . In the same year he was fourth in Kiel behind Brinckmann , Kurt Richter and Heinicke . In 1935 he was fourth again in Bad Saarow behind Bogoljubow , Heinicke and Rellstab .

But it is best known for the Schara-Hennig-Gambit . This is a line-up of the opening Tarrasch Defense , with Black sacrificing a pawn on move four. Anton Schara tried this idea in Vienna in 1918 , and von Hennig introduced the variant into tournament practice in 1929 at the 26th DSB Congress in Duisburg ; he won against Josef Benzinger.

In the late 1930s, von Henning published some chess problems.

literature

  • Dermot Bradley (eds.), Hans H. Hildebrand, Ernest Henriot: Germany's Admirals 1849-1945. The military careers of naval, engineering, medical, weapons and administrative officers with admiral rank. Volume 2: HO. Biblio Verlag, Osnabrück 1989, ISBN 3-7648-1499-3 . Pp. 61-62.
  • Genealogical manual of the nobility . Noble houses B. Volume XII. S. 155. Volume 64 of the complete series. CA Starke Verlag, Limburg (Lahn) 1977, ISSN  0435-2408 .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ German weekly chess and Berlin chess newspaper. No. 24/26 of June 22, 1919. p. 163. Available online in the archive of the Berlin Chess Association ( Memento of February 18, 2014 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on June 24, 2015
  2. ↑ Have a Hack with the Hennig-Schara at Tim Harding (English)

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personal data
SURNAME Hennig, Heinz von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hennig, Heinrich von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German naval officer, most recently rear admiral and chess player
DATE OF BIRTH May 10, 1883
PLACE OF BIRTH Gut Dembrowalonka, Strasburg district , West Prussia
DATE OF DEATH November 29, 1947
Place of death Kiel