Louis Eichborn

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Louis Eichborn (also Ludwig Theodor Eichborn , born June 30, 1812 in Breslau ; † May 9, 1882 ibid) was a German banker who was also remembered as an amateur chess player.

Life

Louis Eichborn came from the well-known Protestant merchant and noble family Eichborn . His father was Johann Wolfgang Moriz-Eichborn (1762-1837), his mother Juliane Friederike Eichborn (1775-1832). He had three siblings. In 1827 he joined his father's company, became a partner in 1835 and his successor after his father's death. The company had numerous business relationships in Silesia , including in the fields of metallurgy , the textile industry and the railways. In 1845 he founded a private bank that was authorized to issue banknotes . He had the title of Commerce Councilor , and from 1848 he was a senior merchant in Breslau.

Louis Eichborn had seven children:

  1. Helene (1840–1909), married to the publisher and bookseller Heinrich von Korn (1829–1907)
  2. Elisabeth (1841–1906), married to the landowner Paul von Korn
  3. Theodor (1841-1893), banker
  4. Philipp (1844–1926), banker, raised to the Prussian nobility on September 2, 1908
  5. Hermann (1847–1918), music writer and composer
  6. Julius Wolfgang (1851–1876), banker
  7. Wolfgang (1863–1935), banker, raised to the Prussian nobility on September 2, 1908

Chess player

Eichborn was an amateur in chess and did not take part in tournaments, but played numerous free games against well-known players, especially Adolf Anderssen, who also lived in Wroclaw, and Tassilo von Heydebrand and the Lasa . He recorded his winning games by hand in a notebook that was found in his estate. Some of them were published by Max Lange in the Deutsche Schachzeitung in 1886 . 36 games against Anderssen, played between October 1851 and March 1859, were printed by Hermann von Gottschall in his Anderssen biography. In them Eichborn proves to be a solid player who was able to repel incorrectly presented attacks by Anderssen. However, Anderssen clearly did not take these "quickly played entertainment games" (v. Gottschall) seriously; therefore they have more historical than chess value. In addition, the number of Eichborn losing games is not known, it should have been significantly higher.

Eichborn rediscovered

Eichborn was completely forgotten in the chess world when, at the beginning of the 21st century, he was listed as the strongest player of all time in private calculations of the historical rating of the top players in chess history before Garry Kasparov . This is due to the fact that almost exclusively victories against one of the strongest players of his time have been handed down from him.

literature

  • Deutsche Schachzeitung 1882, pp. 140–141 (obituary).
  • Hermann von Gottschall: Adolf Anderssen, the old master of German chess art . Leipzig 1912 (reprint: Edition Olms, Zurich 1986. ISBN 3-283-00042-5 ). Pp. 542-550.
  • Eckart von Eichborn: Family von Eichborn. Ancestry and kinship boards . Goerlitz 1928.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ NDB IV p. 368, Wenzel: Deutscher Wirtschaftsführer 1929 Sp. 363.
  2. ↑ http://roman.krumsieck.com/bestever.htm - Caution, long loading time

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personal data
SURNAME Eichborn, Louis
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Eichborn, Ludwig Theodor (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German banker and chess player
DATE OF BIRTH June 30, 1812
PLACE OF BIRTH Wroclaw
DATE OF DEATH May 9, 1882
Place of death Wroclaw