Paul Saladin Leonhardt

Paul Saladin Leonhardt
Association	German Empire
Born	November 13, 1877 Posen , German Empire
Died	December 14, 1934 Koenigsberg
Best Elo rating	2639 (June 1910) ( historical rating )

Paul Saladin Leonhardt (born November 13, 1877 in Posen , † December 14, 1934 in Koenigsberg ) was a German chess master .

At the beginning of the 20th century, Leonhardt was one of the strongest chess players in Germany. His greatest successes in international tournaments were his victory in the Hilversum tournament in 1903 , 2nd place in London (behind Richard Teichmann ) in 1904 , 1st place in Hamburg in 1905 , 3rd place in Karlsbad in 1907 (behind Akiba Rubinstein and Géza Maróczy ) and in 1907 his 1st place in Copenhagen . He won a competition against Aaron Nimzowitsch in Hamburg in 1911 with a clear 4-0 draw. At the German championships in Bad Oeynhausen in 1922 , he finished 6th. In 1929 in Duisburg he was second behind Carl Ahues .

Until 1922 Leonhardt lived in Leipzig , where he had studied, after which he moved to Königsberg. Here he promoted the game of chess as a chess teacher, through radio lectures and simultaneous events . The Königsberg radio tournament of 1926 , which he organized and won, is well known.

Leonhardt was a journalist by profession , among other things he was responsible for the chess section of the Hamburger Nachrichten . In 1913 he published the book On the Spanish Part (see also Spanish Part ). Leonhardt died of a heart attack in 1934 during a game of chess at the Königsberg City Championship .

literature

• Richard Forster: Paul Saladin Leonhardt - thinker and poet on the chessboard. In: Schach , 2004, No. 6, pp. 61–63.
• Frank Zeller , Tim Hagemann: Forgotten Masters . Schachverlag Kania, Eberdingen 2018. ISBN 978-3-931192-40-2 . Pp. 7-40.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ German individual championship 1929 in Duisburg on TeleSchess (table and games)