SK Freiburg-Zähringen 1887
The SK Freiburg-Zähringen 1887 eV is a German chess club .
History of the association
The club was founded on December 8, 1887 as the fourth Baden chess club under the name Freiburg Chess Club . In the Friedrichsbau was the Wiener Kaffee , which was the club's playroom around 1900.
He changed his name several times. It has had its current name since 2007. The following was entered in the register of associations in 2007: "The association bears the name SK Freiburg-Zähringen 1887 eV and continues the tradition and purpose of the Freiburger Schachfreunde 1887 eV and the SK Zähringen 1921 ".
Freiburg Chess Club
In the Board of the association, founded in 1887, the founding member Eduard Kneis held various positions from 1887 to 1912. The club initially played in the Gambrinushalle, but often had to change the venue.
The strongest player at the time was attorney Carl Hartlaub . From 1902 to 1908, manufacturer Ludwig Jäger was chairman. At that time the club played in the Viennese coffee shop . During this time Carl Schlechter gave a simultaneous performance in 1906. Factory owner Alex Friedrich Walter Hellige, founder of the medical technology company Hellige, was chairman of the association from 1909 to 1910.
May 1910 when the Badischer Schachverband was founded , the people of Freiburg were very active from the start, like Oskar Naegeli . After Kneis, Hellige also got a seat on the board of the Baden Chess Association. January 1913 was the entry of the Freiburg club in the club register under the name Schachklub Freiburg im Breisgau .
December 1913 world champion Emanuel Lasker played simultaneously in Freiburg with a result of twenty wins and five draws . The First World War interrupted the game and put an end to the upswing in the club for the time being. Wilhelm von Wolff, who had headed the club since 1911, never returned to the board from the First World War.
Weimar Republic (1919 to 1933)
In 1920 the Freiburg Chess Club with 50 members clearly exceeded the pre-war level. The first successes were achieved at the Baden level. In 1921 the Zähringen chess club was founded. In 1925 the Freiburg Chess Society was founded. She played in the restaurant Zum Schwarzen Walfisch in Schützenallee. Johannes Schmitz, the innkeeper of the restaurant Zum Schwarzen Walfisch (today Walfisch in Schützenallee) was an enthusiastic supporter of the royal game and, thanks to his cordiality, also attracted weaker players to the chess society. Played on Thursdays in the whale.
1925 was Freiburger Chess Club , which in 1925 Freiburg chess club wrote to 90 members has grown. 20 to 30 players met every day in the head coffee house . General doctor Karl Ziebert made it into the Freiburg newspaper in 1926 with a Sunday chess column . In 1926 he became chairman of the Freiburg Chess Club. Comparative battles with Basel were resumed, contact with Alsace broke off. In 1928 Fritz Schottmüller moved from the workers' chess club to the Freiburg chess club and became club master.
In 1930 a sixth chess club was founded in Freiburg, the Chessfreunde Haslach . There were also a number of company chess groups . The strongest was that of Herder Verlag , from which several well-known players emerged, such as Emil Joseph Diemer . At the end of the twenties, the chess club felt the triumph of nationalism. Around 1930 there was also a shift to the right among the students. The compulsion to consume in the head also gave rise to criticism.
In August 1930 the 8th Baden Congress met in Freiburg. In 1932, the club again took over the organization of the Baden Congress, which Hussong won in September 1932.
Third Reich (1933 to 1945)
The workers' chess clubs were dissolved in 1933, as was the Herder-Verlag chess group.
In April 1934 the sixth to eighth game of the world championship match Alekhine - Bogolyubov were played in Freiburg . For the people of Baden, Efim Bogoljubow was a fellow citizen regardless of his origin. After the First World War, he proved that he belonged to the top of the world.
In 1937 Max Pelzer came to the club, who in 1937 shared 1st place with Max Eisinger at the 16th Congress in Villingen and won against Eisinger at that time. In the late 1930s, events within the Freiburg scene began to concentrate more on the Freiburg chess club. Kammerer strengthened the team of the Freiburg chess club, as did Nägeli. A second Swiss, A. Stähelin (national champion 1927) had studied in Freiburg and competed in team fights for the Freiburg chess club.
Also in 1937 Bogolyubov came back to Freiburg for a simultaneous play. Chairman Wilhelm Winterer recorded the only victory .
An extraordinarily rich epoch of Freiburg chess life came to an abrupt end with the outbreak of war. In 1944, the Zum Kopf coffeehouse fell under the Allied bombs and was never rebuilt.
Post-war period after the Second World War in Germany (1946 to 2007)
Freiburg chess club
In 1946 after the end of the Second World War, some former members of the old chess clubs gathered in the house of attorney Erwin Cuntz. For the application for a new establishment (continuation of the association under the old name was prohibited) it took three unencumbered people. In order to hold a meeting to found a chess club, a corresponding application had to be submitted to the city of Freiburg. Hermann Pfau, the ex-president of the workers chess club, which was dissolved in 1933, became president of the new club. In the statutes, the association was apostrophized as the new establishment of the workers' chess club and was given the name Freiburg Chess Association .
The founding meeting took place on August 25, 1946 in the Harmonie restaurant on Grünwälderstrasse. Members came from the former clubs Freiburg Chess Club , Chess Club Zähringen , Chess Club Alia and Workers Chess Club . In 1951 the association was entered in the association register.
Era Stock (1948 to 1965)
It was Friedrich A. Stock's declared aim to return Germany to FIDE and he began with power to initiate this “diplomatically”. At the 20th FIDE Congress in Paris in 1949, where Germany was represented as a guest only by Walter Robinow's former follower , Hermann Römmig from Zweibrücken, Germany's readmission was postponed at the request of the Swiss delegation, led by Erwin Voellmy . This only took place in Copenhagen in July 1950 after the establishment of the German Chess Federation with Friedrich Stock as the first FIDE delegate.
In 1948 Friedrich A. Stock (1900–1984) joined the Freiburg Chess Club as a new member and became 1st Chairman (from 1948 to 1965). Also in 1948 Efim Bogoljubow (German champion 1949) became a member of the club. Bogoljubow's tomb in Triberg in the Black Forest was donated by Stock. Stock wasn't petty when it came to helping his players. In 1950 he found the Inselgaststätte Feierling as a representative setting for his chess club . In March 1951 the first post-war international battle (Federal Republic against Switzerland) took place in Freiburg, which the Germans won by 11.5 to 8.5. Diemer played on board eight of the double round bout.
During the Stock era, the chess club was team champion from Baden ten times in 1887. In the record year 1961, the club won all Baden titles: team and individual championships (Egon Heim), blitz championships and cups (Wolfgang Kühler). In 1961, Helga Axt won the German women's championship for the third time. Freiburg became a chess stronghold and twice hosted the German Chess Congress. The Freiburg Chess Club celebrated its 75th anniversary in 1962.
Successes at German team championships
In the 1950s, Freiburg took part in German team championships several times , together with Hamburg, Berlin, Düsseldorf and Munich.
- 1950 in Berlin: third place at the German team championship behind Hamburger Schachgesellschaft and Schachgesellschaft Eckbauer Berlin .
- In 1952, the German team championship was held with two preliminary rounds (south and north) and the West German final in 1953. Düsseldorf and Munich won the preliminary round in Freiburg.
- In 1954 , Freiburg finished fourth in the final in February 1955.
- 1955 in Lindenfels Freiburg was third in the final round .
- 1957 in Bayreuth , Freiburg also reached third place in the final round .
- In 1961 Freiburg played in the preliminary round south .
Freiburg Chess Society and Chess Club 1887 eV
In 1965 the Freiburg Chess Society and the Chess Club 1887 eV were merged
The association was first called the Freiburger Schachgesellschaft-Schachklub 1887 eV , later Freiburger Schachfreunde 1887 eV The chairmen were cathedral builders Klaus Geis, Hans Josef Cüppers (1968 to 1971), Walter Doelfs (1971 to 1972) and Bernhard Maier (1972 to 1984).
In 1966 the SGK Freiburg won an international team tournament in Mulhouse in 1887 (38 teams).
In 1982 Barbara Hund became the women's grandmaster at the Bad Kissingen 1982 interzonal tournament .
From 1984 to 2002 social judge Uwe Langheineken was chairman. During this time the centenary fell.
Pekka Kauppala headed the anniversary committee in 1987. In addition to a greeting from DSB President Heinz Hohlfeld , the commemorative publication also includes a greeting from Langheineken.
In 1988, Rolf Böhme , the Lord Mayor of Freiburg, presented the Freiburg Chess Friends 1887 eV with the sports badge of Federal President Richard von Weizsäcker .
SK Zähringen 1921
In 1977 SK Zähringen rose to the four-track 1st Bundesliga for the first time in 1921 , but rose again in the 1977/78 season as the bottom of the table in the Southwest relay. After rising again in 1979, SK Zähringen reached third place in the southwest season in the 1979/80 season and thus qualified for the newly founded single-track Bundesliga. In the single-track first Bundesliga Zähringen played from 1980 to 1983, from 1984 to 1986, in the 1987/88 season , from 1993 to 1996 and from 1997 to 1999. In the seasons 1983/84, 1986/87, from 1988 to 1993 and In the seasons 1996/97 and 1999/2000 SK Zähringen played in the 2nd Bundesliga , from 2000 in the Oberliga Baden.
For SK Zähringen 1921, the grandmasters Wolodymyr Baklan , Ognjen Cvitan , Viktor Gavrikov , Julian Hodgson , Adrian Mihalčišin , Stefan Mohr , Yannick Pelletier , Eduardas Rozentalis , Roland Schmaltz and Andreï Sokolov , the international champions Lothar Arnold , Christian Mann , Georg played Siegel and Bela Toth , the cabaret artist Matthias Deutschmann and the law professor Michael Fehling .
For the 75th anniversary, SK Zähringen organized a mixed tournament in which Matthias Deutschmann , Michael Fehling , Gundula Heinatz and Bettina Trabert took part.
SK Freiburg-Zähringen 1887 eV
The Zähringen club dissolved in 2007 and its members continued to play under the new name of SK Freiburg-Zähringen 1887 eV . The statutes of the Freiburg Chess Friends Association 1887 eV were changed accordingly. The Baden Chess Association approved a league transfer . Under the new name SK Freiburg-Zähringen 1887 eV , the Zähringer continued to compete in the major league in coordination with the Baden Chess Association .
Successes, women and girls chess
In 2014, the seniors were runner-up at the Baden team championship for seniors.
But the youth were much more successful. She achieved excellent results, like runner-up at the German school chess team championship.
Barbara Hund has been the first chairwoman of the Freiburg-Zähringen 1887 chess club since July 2015 .
In 2017 the club received the top chess club quality seal: girls and women chess .
Members
The association has 162 members (as of July 2019) and is the third largest association of the Baden Chess Association after OSG Baden-Baden and Karlsruhe Chess Friends . The high proportion of female members (around 20 percent of the 150 active members) is remarkable.
Former and active in order of birth (selection)
| Surname | Profession or success | birth | death |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fritz Hellige | Manufacturer | 1868 | 1951 |
| Carl Hartlaub | Lawyer | 1869 | 1929 |
| Erwin Cuntz | Lawyer | 1878 | 1977 |
| Wilhelm Winterer | Colonial officer | 1879 | 1969 |
| Oskar Naegeli | Dermatologist | 1885 | 1959 |
| Efim Bogolyubov | Chess Grandmaster (1951) | 1889 | 1952 |
| Friedrich A. Stock | Honorary member of the DSB | 1900 | 1984 |
| Gottlieb Machate | German champions | 1904 | 1974 |
| Emil Joseph Diemer | Chess player | 1908 | 1990 |
| Rudolf Kraus | pharmacist | 1909 | 1975 |
| Hans Joseph Cüppers | engineer | 1927 | 2003 |
| Gerhard Hund | mathematician | 1932 | |
| Helga ax | International Champion (1961) | 1937 | |
| Wolfgang Kühler | Chess master | 1937 | |
| Rainer Frank | Law professor | 1938 | |
| Uwe Langheineken | Judge | 1941 | |
| Peter Bolt | Editor of the chess week | 1949 | 2016 |
| Spyridon Skembris | Chess Grandmaster (1990) | 1958 | |
| Barbara dog | Grandmaster of Women (1982) | 1959 | |
| Georg Siegel | International champion (1994) | 1962 | 2010 |
| Michael Fehling | Law professor | 1963 | |
| Bettina Trabert | Grandmaster of Women (2000) | 1969 | |
| Silvia Paddock | International Women's Champion (2001) | 1974 |
Honorary members still active
Rainer Frank, Barbara Hund, Max Jäger, Uwe Langheineken, Bernd Maier and Helmut Scherer.
Literature and Sources
- Pekka Kauppala, Peter Bolt: 100 Years of Chess in Freiburg - The History of the Freiburg Chess Club . Festschrift on the occasion of the centenary of the Freiburger Schachfreunde 1887 eV, Schachwoche Verlag 1987.
- Georg Studier: Emil Joseph Diemer - A life for chess as reflected in its time . Schachverlag Mädler Dresden, 1st edition 1996. ISBN 3-925691-18-9
Individual evidence
- ^ Statutes of the SK Freiburg-Zähringen 1887 eV (version from June 15, 2007) on Badischer Schachverband
- ↑ Deutsche Schachzeitung No. 68 (1913), p. 28
- ↑ see Freiburger Zeitung October 3, 1937, p. 16
- ↑ Michal Negele: Emil Joseph Diemer, a zealot between delusion and truth ( Memento from April 2, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) on Ken Whyld Association
- ↑ German individual chess championship 1949 in Bad Pyrmont on TeleSchach (cross table)
- ^ Alfred Diel : Chess in Germany . Festival book on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the German Chess Federation, Walter Rau Verlag Düsseldorf 1977, p. 197, ISBN 3-7919-0167-2
- ^ German championships for women on TeleSchess
- ^ 75 years of the Freiburg Chess Club, 1887 . Schach-Echo 1962, issue 11, 2nd title page
- ↑ See Festschrift p. 34 right.
- ↑ Mixed tournament of SK Zähringen 1921 at Badischer Schachverband
- ↑ 21st Baden Senior Team Championship in Bad Herrenalb on the Badischer Chess Association
- ^ Successes of the Freiburg youth at the Badischer Chess Association
- ↑ TOP chess club: Girls and women chess of the DSJ
- ↑ Obituary in the Badische Zeitung
- ↑ Lost since 2010.
Web links
- Our chess club at the German Chess Youth
- Homepage of the SK Freiburg-Zähringen 1887 eV
- Rapid chess tournament 125 years of SK Freiburg-Zähringen 1887 eV on TeleSchach
- Schachclub Freiburg-Zähringen 1887: Smoking heads on cold evenings on Badische Zeitung (February 2012)
- Ranking list SK Freiburg-Zähringen 1887 eV on the German Chess Federation
- Girl on the board! in ZÄHRINGEN MAGAZIN (Freiburg im Breisgau), December 2015 issue, p. 26.
- Event as part of the city anniversary Freiburg 2020 of the SK Freiburg-Zähringen 1887 eV