Herbert Heinicke

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Herbert Theodoro Heinicke (born March 14, 1905 in Porto Alegre , Brazil , † April 4, 1988 in Hamburg ) was a German chess player .

Life

He spent his childhood in Brazil, where he was born to wealthy landowners. In 1914 Heinicke's parents were expropriated and the family returned to Germany, where they lived first in Wiesbaden and later in Arnstadt . Heinicke attended high school in Erfurt and passed his Abitur in 1924. However, due to the expropriation of the family, studying could not be financed.

He then completed a banking apprenticeship in Hamburg and worked as an employee at a coffee importing company. With financial support from his employer, Heinicke ventured into self-employment in 1937 and founded a company for stainless steel , which he managed well into old age.

In 1988 Herbert Heinicke died after a heart attack. He was buried in the Nienstedten cemetery.

Chess career

Heinicke learned chess from Anderssen's student Fritz Riemann in Arnstadt . After moving to Hamburg, he joined the Hamburger SK and had great influence on the club management in the 1930s after the National Socialists changed the association law. Heinicke was described by his contemporaries as a staunch National Socialist. With the Hamburg SK he was German team champion in 1956 and 1958 . In 1972 he was a founding member of the chess department of the Favorite Hammonia rowing club , of which he was a member until his death.

Heinicke claims to have won the Hamburg championship seventeen times and took part in eight German championships between 1934 and 1970 . His greatest success was winning the runner-up in 1953. He also performed successfully in international tournaments (e.g. third in Bad Elster in 1939 behind Erich Eliskases and Josef Lokvenc , tournament victory in Graz in 1941, second places in Oldenburg in 1948 and Travemünde in 1951), so that he was named International Master in 1953 . In Munich 1936 and Helsinki 1952 he represented the German team at the Chess Olympiads , in addition he was part of the German selection in several friendship matches and at the European Team Championship in 1957.

Although Heinicke hardly took part in tournaments after 1955 due to his professional activity, he was a strong player well into old age. Until 1982 he played with the team of the chess department of the rowing club Favorite Hammonia Hamburg in the first division , from 1982 to 1987 in the second division .

Others

Heinicke was also actively involved in boxing. Here he was German runner-up in the lightweight.

literature

  • Herbert Heinicke: Art of positional play . Chess Archive, Hamburg 1981

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Obituary in the Hamburger Abendblatt April 12, 1988, page 10
  2. ^ History - Herbert Th. Heinicke KG. Retrieved July 28, 2018 .
  3. ^ André Schulz: HSK: Commemoration of Jewish members. July 26, 2018. Retrieved July 28, 2018 .
  4. ↑ German individual chess championship 1953 in Berlin on TeleSchach (cross table and games)
  5. ↑ The international tournament in Bad Elster in 1939 on TeleSchach (cross table and games)
  6. ^ Willy Iclicki: FIDE Golden book 1924-2002 . Euroadria, Slovenia, 2002, p. 88
  7. ↑ MEN'S CHESS OLYMPIADS - Heinicke, Herbert (Germany) on OlimpBase (English)
personal data
SURNAME Heinicke, Herbert
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Heinicke, Herbert Theodoro (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German chess player
DATE OF BIRTH March 14, 1905
PLACE OF BIRTH Porto Alegre , Brazil
DATE OF DEATH April 4, 1988
Place of death Hamburg